Tidal Volume at the Blue Cabin
Tidal Volume is a digital artist residency featuring Indigenous artists from Vancouver and Melbourne, Australia. Tidal Volume is designed as a ‘call and response’ residency that creates an opportunity for Indigenous culture-bearers and artists to work with sound, song, language, spoken word and text to connect across distance. Produced in the context of the pandemic, Tidal Volume asks us to consider what presence means when we can’t be in physical spaces together. How might we communicate — and listen — differently?
The waterways and coastlines of Vancouver and Melbourne set the basis for exploration: both ocean and river represent rich history, complex currents, exchange, and deep knowledge. It is also a contentious place, a defining factor in increasingly urgent discussions around nationhood, access, jurisdictional boundaries, and climate change. As we seek to revisit, explore and nurture histories of the foreshore, we also seek to provide a space and a support network for artists to interrogate and expand our understanding of the land and waters around us.
Artists Salia Joseph (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Snuneymuxw) and Orene Askew (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) will participate in this 4-week exploratory sound-based exchange with Maya Hodge (Lardil & Yangkaal) and Jarra Steel (Boonwurrung & Wemba Wemba) from September 27th—October 24th, 2021. Learn more about the artists here.
Join the artists on November 19th, 2021, at 6pm PST for the closing event of Tidal Volume! This event will include a world premiere of new works created during the 4-week exchange residency and a live Q&A with the artists. The event will be presented on YouTube Live, with auto-captions and ASL/Auslan interpretation. Click here to access the event.
Tidal Volume is presented by grunt gallery and The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency (Vancouver, CA) in collaboration with Footscray Community Arts Centre (Melbourne, AU). Funded by the generous support of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Image Credits:
- Jarra Karalinar Steel, 2021
- Screen Capture from the Tidal Volume Presentation
- Logos from the three partner organisations: Blue Cabin, Footscray Community Arts Centre and grunt gallery.