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The publication for the year long thirstDays project is now available at VIVO. End Notes is 160 pages of text by Elisa Ferrari, Tarah Hogue and Jayce Salloum, plenty of photographs, most by Brendan Yandt & Alisha Weng, packaged with the 12 program notes designed in a beautiful folder by The Future.
thirstDays was a monthly event that took place February 2016 to March 2017 primarily at VIVO, with programs also at the Native Education College and Oppenheimer Park, Vancouver. The project, conceived and curated by artist-in-residence Jayce Salloum and coordinated by Elisa Ferrari, consisted of monthly interdisciplinary events comprised of short works in performance, film, video, ceremony or some mix thereof taking into consideration the all-embracing theme of love, intimacy and (com)passion, within a geopolitical context.
thirstDays individual program curators were Cease Wyss + Aaron Rice, Jeneen Frei Njootli + Ashok Mathur, Denise Ryner + Tonel, Irwin Oostindie + Ronnie Dean Harris, David Khang + Phanuel Antwi, Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut Webber), Ali Lohan + Cecily Nicholson, Raymond Boisjoly + Jordan Wilson, Tannis Nielsen + Jenny Fraser, Dima Alansari + Cathy Busby, Henry Tsang + Diyan Achjadi, Elisa Ferrari + Stacey Ho. Over 125 artists participated in thirstDays, including Alize Zorlutuna, Amy Malbeuf, Anahita Jamali Rad, Audrey Siegl, Ayumi Goto, Cathy Busby, Cecily Nicholson, Chandra Melting Tallow, Charlene Vickers, Diyan Achjadi, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Fred Wah, Guadalupe Martinez, Helen Lee, Henry Hills, Hildegard Westerkamp, Ho Tam, Jenny Fraser, Jude Anogwih, Jules Koostachin, Kamala Todd, Krista Belle Stewart, Lee Maracle, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, Lisa Arrastia, Lori Blondeau, Manuel Piña, Michael Rakowitz, Mique’l Dangeli, Phinder Dulai, Raven Chacon, Ricardo Basbaum, Rita Wong, Ronnie Dean Harris, Sandra Semchuk, Sarah Shamash, Skeena Reece, Sonnet L’Abbé, Stacey Ho, Vanessa Richards and Zack Khalil.
Response texts & links to video and photos at: thirstdays.vivomediaarts.com
Other documentation: facebook.com/thirstDaysVIVO
The thirstDays publication is available for $20 from VIVO Media Arts Centre.
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.
Elisa Ferrari is an artist and curator, and holds a BFA (University of Architecture of Venice) and a MAA (ECUAD). She works with text, image, and sound. To consider acts and implications of retrieval, she produces projects that manifest as installations, sound walks, artist books, and performance; often addressing or incorporating archival fragments. She is part of – – / dashes, a sound performance collaboration with John Brennan. She is currently collaborating with Stacey Ho on a book of graphic scores for deep listening and sound making.
Jayce Salloum is a Vancouver-based photographer and video artist known for installation works that sensitively investigate historical, social and cultural contexts of place. The grandson of Lebanese immigrants, Salloum studied in the United States and began his artistic career in 1975. The central themes played out in his work include questions of exile, ethnic representation and notions of identity. In 2014, Salloum won a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. https://twitter.com/JayceSalloum
Tarah Hogue is a curator, writer and cultural worker based in Saskatoon, Canada, located in Treaty 6 territory and the homeland of the Métis. Her work is invested in the capacity of art and artists to envision and enact otherwise ways of being in the world, while seeking to unsettle settler colonial frameworks by prioritizing Indigenous knowledges in dialogue with other cultural communities.
