Please join us for the celebration of the Light Up Chinatown Festival, and final days to view a sliver is a seed exhibition featuring Boring Earth, curated by Jenn Jackson.

a sliver is a seed presents major new sculptural commissions alongside collaborative works developed over the past two years by Boring Earth, an artist collective concerned with cultivating more-than-human mutualisms and relations among living environments. Convened by artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox, Boring Earth gathers material and immaterial beings into a practice that traces thresholds of intimacy between what is seen and sensed, conjuring elemental ontologies that gesture toward alternative worldings.

For a sliver is a seed, Boring Earth refigures the pipeline as a portal between possible socio-ecologies: those shaped by extractivism and uneven consumption, and those grounded in collective, spiritual, and more-than-human practices of life-making. The exhibition brings together material compositions emerging from a yearlong reciprocal exchange between the territories of the Tagbanua Tandulanen peoples—colonially known as El Nido; the territories of Mazina’iga-ziibing Misi-zaagiwininiwag (Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation), the Chippewa, and other ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ (Anishinaabeg) peoples, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples—colonially known as Toronto; and the territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwxw̱ú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ nations—colonially known as Vancouver.

In celebration of the the Light Up Chinatown Festival, Or Gallery Contemporary Art Space + Bookstore will be open with extended hours:

Saturday, August 8 | 11:00 AM–7:00 PM
Sunday, August 9 | 11:00 AM–5:00 PM

Plan your visit to see a sliver is a seed before the exhibition closes and enjoy 10% off all bookstore titles throughout the festival.