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Mark Salvatus’ That Day Most Eagerly Awaited presents and explores the home as a thriving ecology

In Vajiko Chachkhiani’s video Winter Which Was Not There, a man watches a monumental concrete sculpture
being hoisted out of the sea.

Amrita Hepi is a dancer and choreographer with an interdisciplinary practice

For Construction of the Cities of Memory, Ernesto Bautista interviewed some of his closest friends, asking
them about the first houses they lived in, or the first houses they lost. Based on these oral histories, the artist
created a 3D rendering of a virtual city with all the houses his friends remember, houses that no longer exist
for them, but exist again in this new alternative reality.

Hengfu banners are traditionally hung in public spaces in China to communicate messages of inspiration or
motivation.

In this documentary, the directors set out on a journey through remote towns and villages in Brazil in search
of crafts and professions that are near extinction.

The points of departure for Ilana Harris-Babou’s work are contemporary forms of digital media and the ways
we insatiably consume them—think of the glut of home improvement and cooking shows and beauty tutorials
made available instantaneously online daily. Via these numerous digital interfaces, our “realities” of daily life become reinforced through personally-constructed algorithms.

The work Cabinet of Curiosities by Taiwanese artist Yu Liu is a four-year study and extended interpretation of
Rumphius, a biologist who traveled to Ambon Island, Indonesia, with a Dutch East India Company merchant
ship in the 17th century

The last time I saw Peter Morin in person he handed me a small animal hide rattle and instructed me to make some noise. What can be accomplished by shaking a rattle and shouting? How about undoing the effects of hundreds of years of colonial violence? The venue for the rattle shaking was the Vancouver Art Gallery, a former provincial courthouse that oversaw laws that disenfranchised Indigenous peoples, Black folks, Asian folks, Queer folks, and women, and criminalized their culture(s), languages, and how they raised their children.

On each October 12 from 2012 and 2019, the artist and antiracist activist Daniela Ortiz carried out a series of actions. Set on the date of the so-called “discovery” of America, which Spain marks to celebrate its National Day, the actions reveal the imperial substrate of Spanish identity and promote counternarratives that make visible the silenced experience of the colonized peoples.
This selection of videos brings together three actions c