Cinevolution is thrilled to announce Nancy Lee 李南屏 and Kiran Bhumber ਕਿਰਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਭੰਬਰ as the Featured Artists for Digital Carnival Z. Each year, Digital Carnival celebrates an artist who has contributed significantly to the Canadian media art landscape.
Since 2014, Lee and Bhumber have been working collaboratively to create technologically-mediated experiences that activate social interaction and reflect our individual and collective relationships with emerging technologies.
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 practiced in their post-apocalyptic wedding ceremony. 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 by Cinevolution Media Arts Society and Richmond Art Gallery.
Location: Richmond Art Gallery, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9
Date: April 24 – June 5, 2021
Admission: Free
About the Artists
Nancy Lee 李南屏 is a curator of interactions. Her crafted spaces stimulate behavioural dynamics, inviting their release into a broth of intangibles.
Kiran Bhumber ਕਿਰਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਭੰਬਰ is a media artist, composer, musician and educator. Kiran constructs interactive installations and performance systems that allow performers and audiences to engage with themes relating to cultural memory, embodiment and nostalgia.
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