Gao Yujie during her daily performance in the Project Gallery, 2023.
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to invite you to join Gao Yujie and guests on Friday, May 5th from 6:30 pm to 8 pm for an artist talk and discussion on the artist's recent exhibition Flowing to Unsettle in the Alternator's Project Gallery.
This in-person event will contain three parts. Gao will begin this event with a short presentation on her work including her recent 6-week-long performance at the Alternator. In part 2, Gao will be joined by Dr. Megan Smith and Xiaoxuan/Sherry Huang in discussing the performance and themes related to the exhibition such as perceptions of time. To close the event Gao and guests will open up the discussion to the audience for a Q&A.
This event is free with registration. Light snacks will be available for guests. Register at Eventbrite here.
Gao Yujie is an interdisciplinary media artist and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her generative participatory performance work studies the materiality of duration and explores the elasticity of space and time in rule-based interactive environments. Her exhibition, Flowing to Unsettle is on view in the Project Gallery of the Alternator until May 6th, 2023.
You can learn more about Gao and her exhibition here.
Xiaoxuan / Sherry Huang (she/they) is a writer, scholar, & educator working in experimental criticism, literary audio, & other forms of hybrid poetics. Her writing lingers in the doorway like a long goodbye, aiming to be what it claims to need: “A book [that] is always-already a sign of love. A sign for love.” Her first full-length publication, Love Speech (2019, Metatron Press,) is a book of poetry & auto-theory. She holds an MFA from University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus,) & is a 1.5 generation Canadian-上海人.
You can learn more about Huang's work here.
Xiao Xuan / Sherry Huang 是一位以音乐、摄影和印刷为创作媒介的诗人。她通常喜欢用模拟的、短暂的、实验性的方法来制作有形的艺术品。她最近的长 篇出版物《爱的演讲》（梅塔特隆出版社2019年）是创新地结合了诗歌和书信体写作，同时她也正在发行的限量版包括磁带、侧边和杂志，并进一步尝试将诗歌与表演艺术的多元融合。
Dr. Megan Smith is a UBC 2022 Killam Laureate, Associate Professor in Creative Technologies in FCCS. Her practice-based research probes systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with virtual and augmented reality, geo-location, live-feed installation, and performance as methods for storytelling.
You can learn more about Smith's work here.
