Please join us for a public talk with artist and filmmaker Byron Peters. Introduction by Or Gallery Director Jenn Jackson.

This public program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Enchantment, on view at Or Gallery from October 9, 2024, to January 11, 2025.

Enchantment is a group exhibition that looks at the way that Chinatown-Downtown Eastside (and Vancouver in general) enchants international capital, investors, and tourists. Rebecca Bair, Julian 伊 中 Hou and Byron Peters insist upon a counter enchantment. To these artists, this counter enchantment comes from reworking archival materials, to insisting on the lived experience of having relations in this neighbourhood, to mobilizing speculation, and fiction, to listening to the knowledge of the surrounding communities. In a political sense, there is a degentrification of enchantment at work in this group show, and the artists invite us to reclaim the means of enchantment. Through sculpture, sound installation, and video poetry, these newly commissioned works remain alive to the ready-made imaginings of this space at the same time that they rework the knotty ties that secure the image of this place.

Enchantment is presented with additional support from The Studio for Racial and Colonial Tidalectics (Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies).