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Gallery 881, Exhibition, Nov. 2-30 2024 Becoming Anarchival is a collaboration between artist-ethnographers Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy that activates instability and impermanence as generative forces in museums and archives. Over the past decade, they have oriented their writing and art practice toward the anarchival, both as transformative disruption and as a methodology for […]
Fugitives: Anarchival Materiality in Archives
Our new installation of The Water We Call Home is now open at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum in Steveston, B.C. A soft opening took place in July 2023 with the Welcoming the Sun event at the museum. We will be holding an official opening event in October, 2023. Between 2020-2022, an advisory circle […]
The Water We Call Home
Excerpt from white clouds in blue sky (2022). Preview 1 min 50 sec. Original work 6 mins. 25 sec. By Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, and Steve DiPaola. white clouds in blue sky white clouds in the blue sky is a three-channel video installation by artist-anthropologists Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith and artist and […]
white clouds in blue sky
Image credit: From Wrapped in the Cloud, Meghann O’Brien, 2018. Produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, Jaimie Issac, and Kate Hennessy. Wrapped in the Cloud | A collaboration with Meghann O’Brien Kate Hennessy, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and digital artist Conrad Sly are thrilled to be collaborating with curator Jaimie Issac […]
“Wrapped in the Cloud”
Transmissions Expanded is an online portal to educational materials related to Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions art installation: an opportunity to dig deeper into the languages, the revitalization efforts and the cross-disciplinary thinking that animates the artwork. Transmissions Expanded gives a glimpse into what the Elders mean when they say “the culture is in the language.” Transmissions Expanded also includes documentation […]
Transmissions Expanded
At the Terminus: Ethnographic Terminalia 2019 Vancouver, B.C. is known as Terminal City, the end of the railways and pipelines where land meets the Pacific Ocean. It is the terminus, the boundary, the border. It is a city on unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territory, a place grappling with colonial ruptures, cultural […]
Ethnographic Terminalia 2019
Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith’s exhibition Fugitives in the Archive at the Royal British Columbia Museum’s Pocket Gallery and Lightbox Gallery opened on Nov. 2 2018 and ran until January 1, 2019. Fugitives in the Archive is inspired by unexpected objects that we have encountered while doing art-based research in archives. How are decisions […]
Fugitives in the Archive: Exhibition
Kate Hennessy (SFU SIAT) and Vince Dzeikan (Department of Design, Monash University) were co-curators of the 2018 MWX exhibition program at the Museums and the Web conference in Vancouver. See full documentation of the MWX2018 exhibition at www.mwx2018.org “Repatriation Monologues” Panel Discussion, April 19th, 2018, Museum of Vancouver
MWX2018
The Making Culture Lab and students of Moving Images (IAT344) were honoured to collaborate with Kwiaahwah Jones and Viviane Gosselin on the production of seven short documentaries for inclusion in the ground breaking exhibition Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition, opening March 16th 2018 at the Museum of Vancouver. “Documenting Haida Now @ […]