[BCMA] Upcoming Exhibition at Nanaimo Art Gallery 'Give Birth Love Tooth'

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv]

For Immediate Release

Give Birth Love Tooth
<https://nanaimoartgallery.ca/exhibition/give-birth-love-tooth/>

April 29th - June 25th, 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, April 28th, 7 - 9 pm

Give Birth Love Tooth is a collaborative multimedia exhibition by
Nanaimo-based collective Art Action Earwig, composed of Minah Lee, Wryly
Andherson, and Tadafumi Tamura. The project started with a story about
wisdom teeth, 사랑니, meaning Love Tooth in Korean.

The artists begin the story, an autobiographical documentary-fiction, as
follows:

“On That Woman’s 38th birthday, That Woman is reminded that her single
mother was 38 when she gave birth to her. Her molars gain unusual abilities
to express willfully forgotten and silenced memories of That Woman’s body;
lost labour, language barriers, legal struggles, and longing for love.”

Expanding from this introduction Give Birth Love Tooth will feature a
4-channel video installation of story-tellers’ conversations with Art
Action Earwig, integrated with animation. The exhibition will also feature
large print photos, sculptural installations, projections with surround
sound, interactive displays and an artbook, that combines shared stories of
family, history, and lands. A series of performances and events through the
community will complement the exhibition, information and registration will
be available on the Nanaimo Art Gallery website, NanaimoArtGallery.ca

Lee notes that the group has been guided by what they call a practice to
‘root in routine’ working to be grounded in a respectful and reciprocal
way. She also remarked “We have been learning from local knowledge keepers
in our preparation for this exhibition. Elder Geraldine Manson has guided
us to work with native seeds for our Seed Bomb activities.”

Give Birth Love Tooth is the fifth exhibition through which Nanaimo Art
Gallery asks the question, What stories do we tell?

Nanaimo Art Gallery offers admission by donation and is open Tuesdays to
Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays from 12 to 5 pm, Tours of Give
Birth Love Tooth are available Fridays through the run of the exhibition at
12 pm. Tours are $5 per person and are free for members.

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Art Action Earwig seeks creative ways to honour the lands and waters they
live on – the unceded Coast Salish territories. They live and work on the
lands of the Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo) and Snaw-Naw-As (Nanoose) peoples of
Vancouver Island and the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),
and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations of the Lower Mainland.
Their work is also situated in South Korea and Japan where their members’
distant homes and families are. Formed in early 2020 by founding members
Minah and Wryly during the early days of Covid-19, they pursue art
practices through gestures that resist colonial legacies. After a series of
creative exchanges and discussions throughout the pandemic, in 2022
Tadafumi joined the team.

Media Contact:

Jesse Birch, Curator jesse at nanaimoartgallery.ca

Both Images by: Tadafumi Tamura


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Dana Gage (she/her)

Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Nanaimo Art Gallery



Snuneymuxw Territory

150 Commercial Street, Nanaimo BC

250-754-1750

NanaimoArtGallery.ca <http://www.nanaimoartgallery.ca/>
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