2024 Events
Friday, November 29, 8pm, Tix $10 cash at the door
Trail’s End (closing event for Graham Landin: Tight Span)
Performances by Julian Hou, Mendel Skulski with Aiden Ayers, Maggie Tiesenhausen (S. Wurm). Lighting by Adam Flynn.
Julian Hou is an artist based in Vancouver. His multidisciplinary practice includes the fostering and organizing of productions through a fluid collaborative art, audio, publishing and apparel entity (Second Spring), as well as an ongoing artistic practice that involves the accumulation of new skills and application of personal symbolic invocations, collective meaning, and original methods of divination that probe the darker recesses of psychic awareness. His stalwart mediums are drawing, sculpture, songwriting, album production, and clothing as art. He will be performing songs from his upcoming album Country Balance.
Mendel Skulski is a storyteller with the podcast Future Ecologies: a show produced on (and often about) unceded Indigenous territories across the Salish Sea. Future Ecologies has been featured on curricula at the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and Western Washington University, and has received honours from the Webby Awards and the New York Festival Radio Awards. Trained in Industrial Design, and steeped in reverence for nature’s infinite, entangled beauty, Mendel opted to devote themself to a less material form of production — that of sounds and ideas.
Aiden Ayers is an artist based in Vancouver BC. He creates timeless music with warmth and care, defying genre and categorization.
Maggie Tiesenhausen (and pseudonymously S. Wurm) is a northwest Albertan settler music producer and artist. The hushed argument of layers in their work – rural found sound, field recordings, barely audible confessions, amplified noise floors, and recordings of dilletante performance— bring clouded internal sites into view. Often emotionally charged, atmospheric, and unresolved, these auditory worlds summon a cinematic visuality. Tiesenhausen lives in Treaty 8 territory, in the hamlet of Demmitt, Alberta. In addition to their music production, they share a collaborative singing practice with artist and musician Jen Reimer called Tunnel.
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September 14–December 15, 2025, Saturdays 7–10pm
Ron Tran: Kind Pot
Ron Tran is the fall 2024 artist in residence in Pale Fire’s salon. Their weekly series "Kind Pot" will take place on Saturday evenings.
Kind Pot is a direct English translation of Ron's Vietnamese birth name, Hien Huu. It is an ongoing hospitality project that began during his residency in Berlin, and continued in his home, garden and studio in East Vancouver as well as artist-run spaces. During his residency, Tran will share his interpretation of Vietnamese street food.
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May 25–August 31, Saturdays, 7–10pm
Derya Akay: Girl Dinner
Derya Akay will be the first artist in residence in Pale Fire’s salon. Their weekly series "Girl Dinner" will take place on Saturday evenings.
Derya Akay (they/she, b. 1988, Turkey) is an interdisciplinary artist who poetically interprets cooking as a metaphor. She explores the tension between preservation and decay, control and chance, trial and error. Her artistic strategies embrace the realities of time and transformation using organic materials. Dumpster diving, recalling dreams, hacking and pirating, alley walks and studying weeds also contribute to her process-based practice. Derya has initiated numerous food cultivation and hospitality projects including “Estradiol Kitchen” (2022–23) at Moodswing Bar in New Westminster; collaborative projects “Garden Don’t Care”, “Green Grocer” and “The Neighbour’s Plate” (2018–22) at Unit 17 in Vancouver; and “Sikma Gunu” (2022) at the Toronto Biennial in Mississauga. In 2023, Derya was the Stonecroft Artist-in-Residence at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston. Her recent exhibitions include "Flowers from a Story" (2024) at Unit 17; "The Willful Plot" (2023) at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and "Meydan" (2021) at The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver.
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Saturday, June 22, 4:30–5:30pm
Artist Talk with Janine Dunn and Amy Kazymerchyk
Co-presented with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver (CASV)
CASV and Pale Fire invite you to a conversation between Janine Dunn and Amy Kazymerchyk. Janine will introduce the audience to the site and context that she works in, as well as the environmental and social conditions that motivate her work. Janine and Amy will discuss historical and contemporary influences on her painting methodology, and parallels between her pictures and other artists' works.
The talk takes place on the last day of Janine’s exhibition cover the taken bone. She will be present at the gallery between 12–10pm to greet visitors. Pale Fire will host a public closing reception in the salon from 5:30–10pm. The artist talk is free, however, seats in the gallery are limited. Please consider RSVP’ing here.
Following the artist talk, CASV will host a members-only reception and tour of Jeffrey Boone and David Wong’s home. For the past 25 years, Jeffrey and David have been collecting art with a growing focus on contemporary representations of culture in landscape. To become a member of the CASV, visit their membership page for more information.
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Friday April 26, 9pm
Rosalind Nashashibi: Vivian's Garden (2017)
16mm/Digital, 29:50min
Free, Limited seating
Courtesy LUX
British Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi's 2017 film Vivian's Garden observes Austrian émigré artists Vivian Suter (b. 1949, Buenos Aires) and her mother Elisabeth Wild (b. 1922, Vienna) in their shared home in Panajachel, Guatemala. Nashashibi, who is known for chronicling intimate moments of contemporary life, witnesses the pair's domestic and artistic relationships with people, plants and animals.
Vivian Suter is known for her large-scale loose canvases that she paints in her open-air garden studio. In addition to oils, she works with volcanic minerals, earth, botanical matter and microorganisms from her environment. Suter's work is often exhibited outside, such as in Athens, Greece for documenta 14, where Vivian's Garden premiered.
Suter's practice bears influence on Puerto Rican artist Maru Aponte and her process of plein air painting, which is expressed in her exhibition Salt Stains.