Events at: Belkin Art Gallery

Outdoor Screen: Manuel Axel Strain – what do you know?, 2023

Until October 2, the outdoor screen shows what do you know?, a newly commissioned work by Manuel Axel Strain, which the artist created in collaboration with – and in reference to – their relatives and their land. what do you know? comprises three segments that layer voices and locations across space and time, with Strain’s mother, brother, niece and nephew sharing two poems that are in dialogue with one another. As part of the installation, the video is surrounded by an in-situ painting that evokes a power that is traced to different memories, stories and places, becoming a portal into and beyond the moving image.

UBC Outdoor Art Collection: Decolonization Tour

The Decolonization Tour highlights site-specific artworks by Indigenous artists and raises questions around issues of place, space and identity. Considering how these works address urgent social and political concerns, we’ll discuss ideas of settler colonialism, decolonization, reconciliation and the history of UBC’s Vancouver campus, which is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.