Exquisite Pressure x F-O-R-M

F-O-R-M and What Lab are very excited to welcome you to back to Exquisite Pressure! ExP allows artists to try something new, to share their works in progress in front of an audience, gather feedback, and put their investigations to the test. It’s a night to experience new work in beautiful, brave, and vulnerable early stages.

ExP x F-O-R-M features the work of:
Kait Ramsden
Morgan Sears-Williams
Pia Yona Massie + Kelly McInnes

Curated and hosted by F-O-R-M. A few words from them on what to expect:

The lens acts as a witness and accomplice in each artist’s work.


These live performance works each contain:
+ a transcendence from seeing to feeling
+ a fracturing, layering and reassembling of images
+ a recording that breathes beyond the edges of the screen


These three works collectively consider:
+ the politics of the lens
+ the sensorial resonance of the edit
+ the projection of a past, present, or future

Questions? Email us at studio@whatlab.ca

Mask Mandate

Wearing masks is highly encouraged for this show when possible as a practice of collective community care. With the event taking place during the peak of flu season, we strive to be able to gather in groups while being mindful of our own and others’ health needs. We will have masks available on site, but encourage you to bring your own as supplies may be limited. An air purifier will be on site to assist with providing clean air and circulation. Please note drinks will be available for this event, and unmasking will take place for those who purchase and consume drinks.

We are encouraging masks by:

• All staff will be wearing masks. Performers will not be masking.
• Printed signage will be posted throughout the venue stating “Masks Encouraged”
• We will have N95 masks available at the entrance and offer masks to individuals who enter the space.

about the artists

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Pia Yona Massie + Kelly McInnes

Pia Yona Massie

Pia Yona Massie is a multi-media artist, environmental activist, and teacher. Massie’s work has been exhibited in museums, festivals, and galleries throughout North America and Europe, including The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Gallery 881, Monica Reyes and the grunt galleries in Vancouver, BC.

VIVO Media Arts is creating a special collections archive of 40 years of PYM’s interdisciplinary work. Time Travellers Testimony, a multi-generational / multi-media collaboration now in progress, brings the voices of Clayoquot Sound’s ‘War in the Woods’ back full circle to the engaged creatives on the frontlines continuing the ongoing protection of our air, land and water.

Originally raised in Brooklyn, New York PYM has now lived half her life on the West Coast, near the Pacific Ocean, in the city of her ancestors. She is deeply grateful to work and live in the Pacific Northwest unceded traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

Kelly McInnes

Based on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Nations, Kelly McInnes is a settler of Irish, Scottish & British ancestry. She/they are a queer dance artist concerned with embodying care & creating as a way of remembering connection to Earth. Her Craniosacral Therapy practice and passion for collective healing powerfully inspires her artistry. Kelly is grateful to have worked as a choreographer, performer & community-engaged facilitator with many brilliant artists on beautiful projects over the past decade. They have shared their work through stage, outdoors, site specific, durational, installation, guerrilla & interactive performances, as well as through films, workshops & collaborations, presented locally in festivals such as Dance In Vancouver, Vines Art Festival, Vancouver International Dance Festival & rEvolver, as well as nationally at Feminist Art Conference, SKAMpede Festival & internationally at Lake Studios Berlin & Espacio Expectante. As a performer, Kelly has danced the works of EDAM Dance, MACHiNENOiSY, Restless Productions, 605 collective, Chick Snipper, Anne Cooper, Olivia C. Davies, Daina Ashbee, among others. Kelly delights in sharing dance through community classes & collaborative creative processes with youth, adults & seniors. She has facilitated community offerings including MINE / EPOCH Youth Project, Roundhouse Community Dancers and currently leads Late Stage Remedy, a collective dance meditation, inviting communities to practice connecting to the land together. Kelly also often supports the creative processes and productions of colleagues.