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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
The urban screen sits on the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. Traditionally Kingsway followed the Indigenous trail used by...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
“If grunt gallery did not put the whole idea into perspective, grunt would also be pushed out of the neighbourhood.”
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
The idea for a new screen began in 2014 when a City of Vancouver public art consultant approached three artist-run centers in Mount Pleasant: grunt gallery, The Western...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
HOMe is a four minute experimental video connecting the homoerotic with the land. Burton explores gay identity, Indigeneity, and rural living through images taken on his ancestral territory of...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
"He creates a series of larger-than-life self-portraits about 2Spirit, Indigenous queer identity, an experience that is central to any consideration of place."
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
As Steryerl explains, “Senses and things, abstraction and excitement, speculation and power, desire, and matter actually converge within images.”6 Burton’s work breaks down the binary between subject and object. He opens...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
Vancouver artist Paul Wong, created six short 10-second videos titled, CHINESE ONLY Television Bumpers. These brightly colored digital graphics are written specifically in Chinese characters. The characters, “Chinese Only” are overlaid...
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The Instability of Place: Kevin Lee Burton, Paul Wong & Amanda Strong on grunt gallery’s Urban Screen
"Vancouver has witnessed an overwhelming increase in anti-Asian hate crimes since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus."
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