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One of the benefits of being an artist-run centre is having talented artists on our Board. They bring enthusiasm for VIVO’s mission, a dedication to making us more successful, and an artist’s perspective to guide our plans and policies.
Gabriela has been on VIVO’s Board since March 2014 and has been active on our Development, Archive, and Business Plan Committees and has worked on policy development.
Current projects | Gabriela is currently working on two projects for Jayce Saloum’s thirstDays #3 at VIVO on April 28th, and curated by Tonel and Denise Rayner. The first is a video portrait of all the members of the AKA collective in collaboration with Sarah Shamash and Osvaldo Ramirez. The other is re-enactment of a performance by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark in collaboration with Alessandra Santos, Steve Di Paola and Sarah Shamash. Her video, Escribiendome, will also be shown that evening.
Thank you Gabriela for your commitment to VIVO and for making a difference in Vancouver’s cultural community.
Gabriela has donated prints of her piece, Escribiendome, as a perk in our Operation Yellow Helmet Campaign. Help build a better VIVO through your donation.
Title: Escribiendome
Size: 13″ x 19″
Medium: Unframed digital print on photographic paper
Date: 2011-2013
Number available:
Framing Required Perk: 10
Board Bundle Perk: 3
Class Warfare Perk: Up to 5
Donation:
Framing Required Perk: $125
Board Bundle Perk: $300 (also includes works by Matilda Aslizadeh and Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte.
Class Warfare Perk: $150 (a diverse collection of perks)
Artist Statement
Escribiendome explores the ways in which words and languages shape our sense of self and how, in turn, through our life experiences we blur, transgress and shape the meanings of the words that are used to define and categorize us. It consists of two video channels played in one split screen. In one video you see my hand writing words in English such as friend, artist, designer, student, Mexican, Canadian, migrant, landed immigrant, Latin, woman, minority, citizen, spouse, alien, mother, (…). In the other video you see my hand writing words in Spanish such as hija (daughter), sobrina (niece), nieta (granddaughter), prima (cousin), mujer (woman), comadre, amiga (friend), tapatía, (…). Through the repeated action of writing at some point in the video the words become illegible.
VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.
Gabriela is an interdisciplinary media artist and cultural historian with a research focus on Latin American feminist media arts. Working at the intersections of video and performance, she uses video and multimedia installations to explore the social, political, and cultural structures that shape our sense of self. She is assistant professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, and a member of the Vancouver-based AKA collective. Gabriela won the Canadian Historical Association’s 2015 John Bullen Prize honouring the outstanding Ph.D. thesis on a historical topic submitted in a Canadian university by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident ( “Mujeres Que Se Visualizan”: (En)Gendering Archives and Regimes of Media and Visuality in post-1968 Mexico).