AUDAIN PRIZE FOR OTHER SIGHTS
Earlier in October, Other Sights received news that they would be receiving a $10,000 award from the Audain Art Foundation, sharing the Audain Prize for 2020 with 12 other BC-based Artist-Run Centres: 221A, Access Gallery, Artspeak Gallery, Grunt Gallery, Malaspina Printmakers Society, Or Gallery, UNIT/PITT Society for Art & Critical Awareness, VIVO Media Arts Centre, […]
Blue Cabin Virtual Film Series
Join us Thursday, July 16th for the final screening of the Blue Cabin’s weekly virtual screening events.
Blue Cabin Press 2015-2017
Caoimhe Morgan-Feir. “The Little Blue Cabin That Could” Canadian Art. September 13, 2018. Robin Laurence. “Vancouver Art Gallery and grunt gallery catch cabin fever” Georgia Straight. July 11, 2018. Kevin Griffin. “Housing takes centre stage in four Metro Vancouver exhibitions” The Vancouver Sun. July 11, 2018. Kevin Griffin. “Squatter shacks described as distinctively Vancouver as […]
15 Years of Other Sights Projects
Other Sights was founded in the spring of 2005. This year, 2020 marks the organization’s 15th year in operation. Four of the Organization’s founders remain committed as Producers with Other Sights, Lorna Brown, Barbara Cole, Colin Griffiths and Marko Simcic. The fifth founder, Patrik Andersson has also remained involved with the organization as a Producer […]
FLOOD (Displaced Horizon) – Now Installed
The FLOOD (Displaced Horizon) billboards have been installed as part of Capture Photography Festival. Other Sights was planning an event to celebrate this public outdoor billboard project, however, due to Covid-19 and social distancing measures in place, that is no longer feasible. Alternatively, we’ve prepared a video about the project that features photographer Howard Ursuliak […]
New Blue Cabin Residents Janice and Buddy
In February the Blue Cabin welcomed two new residents Chepximiya Siyam’ Cheif Janice George and Skwetsimeltxw Willard ‘Buddy’ Joseph, both accomplished weavers and teachers from the Squamish Nation. Chief Janice George graduated from Capilano University, North Vancouver BC, and the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA. She feels her education at these schools […]
FLOOD (DISPLACED HORIZON)
FLOOD (Displaced Horizon) Collaborative project with Howard Ursuliak, Kyle Juron, Lorna Brown, Barbara Cole, Colin Griffiths and Marko Simcic April 12 to May 17, 2020 Part of Capture Photography Festival’s Pattison Outdoor Billboards Public Art Project. FLOOD (Displaced Horizon) is a series of images located on four billboards facing east and west on Expo Boulevard between […]
the future is floating – 2020 Future museum
This last public event for The Future is Floating created a fictional harbour tour of the future, looking back at the year 2020. With stops along the way, including Cockatoo Island, the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and Barangaroo. The artists created a narrative that parodied the ‘tour guide’ presentation of place, introducing more complex […]
the future is floating – rescue remedy
Rescue Remedy was the third event in Other Sights’ the future is floating public event series held aboard Tribal Warrior’s Mari Nawi vessel in Sydney Harbour. Rescue Remedy featured the following artists: T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss (Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh, Stó:lō, Irish, Métis, Kanaka Maoli, Swiss, Latai Taumoepeau (Punake from the Island Kingdom of Tonga, Gadigal Ngurra), Salote Tawale […]
the future is floating – futures event
We are pleased to present some photos from the Futures performance, one of the four public events that were part of the future is floating artist exchange in Sydney Australia. Futures, performed on January 22 featured: Venessa Possum (Dharug Dharawal), Syrus Marcus Ware (Black, from Turtle Island), Claire G. Coleman (Noongar), and Jen Rae (Métis) […]
