Nancy Lee 李南屏 and Kiran Bhumber ਕਿਰਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਭੰਬਰ: UNION
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Richmond Art Gallery 180-7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, British Columbia V6Y 1R9
Ian Nakamoto, Nancy Lee and Kiran Bhumber, "engraving at the cusp," 2020
white-light scan and digital render. Image courtesy of the artists.
Cinevolution’s flagship annual event, Digital Carnival, returns with the theme of “Z”!
A cutting-edge media art festival for all audiences, Digital Carnival Z will be headlined by UNION, a speculative sci-fi exhibition set in the year 3000 created by Featured Artists Nancy Lee 李南屏 and Kiran Bhumber ਕਿਰਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਭੰਬਰ, presented in partnership with the Richmond Art Gallery.
In addition to the interactive gallery exhibition, join us for a dynamic array of online exhibitions, performances, and talks, where artists explore the relationship between bodies, gestures, culture and society to imagine new futures #BeyondTheBinaries.
Discover new media works ranging from dance, poetry, video, interactive media, live coding to web XR online at DigitalCarnival.ca.
ASL interpretation, closed captioning, and audio description available. For detailed accessibility information, please contact Regan Shrumm by email at regan@cinevolutoinmedia.com or by phone at 778-803-7150.
Featuring a new body of works by interdisciplinary media artists Nancy Lee 李南屏 and Kiran Bhumber ਕਿਰਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਭੰਬਰ, UNION is a speculative sci-fi exhibition centred around a narrative of two beings discovering their ancestral memories through the longing for touch and the rituals enacted in their post-apocalyptic wedding ceremony. The exhibition incorporates web XR, performance, sculpture, and multi-channel sound and video installations. Drawing on parallels between our world and the speculative future while working through the artists’ diasporic identities, UNION is a potent critique of modern surveillance capitalism, but also a gesture towards hope through the generative possibilities of intimacy, performativity, and presence.
UNION is co-presented with Cinevolution Media Arts Society. For more information about UNION, visit www.union.land. For accessibility inquiries, contact Regan Shrumm at access@cinevolutionmedia.com.