Special Event
Glint Publication Launch
with Natasha Katedralis and Tiziana La Melia
21 February 2025
7:00-9:00pm
Still from publication , 2025. Image courtesy of Natasha Katedralis and Tiziana La Melia.
Or Gallery is delighted to announce the launch of our most recent publication Glint. Please join us for a celebration with readings from Emily Fedoruk, Natasha Katedralis and Dana Qaddah and a DJ set by Thomas Weideman at People Gallery from 7:00-9:00pm on Friday, February 21.
Recall the plastic gem that fell off of the purse that makes one feel like a million dollars, that to the eyes of another looks cheap but deep down reminds us of the stars.
Glint is a junk drawer that contains both treasures, refuse and notably, the stuff that is most essential for living. It’s also where you might repurpose a broken broken broken pin that reflects a ray of poems in the shape of domestic objects overlaid on top of film stills, unseasonal trend cycles, contaminated taste buds, dissolving bouillon cubes blurring the distinctions between the rural, the urban and agrarian cycles that irrigate thinking between fantasy, food and fashion. In Glint, every effort to contain elliptical ideas glitters into more facets of sparkle matter, joy and abandon.
Formally, Glint evokes a tabloid, a newspaper genre whose etymology refers to tablets or compressed medicine, which we now know in media to be associated with bite sized content. Created and edited by Natasha Katedralis and Tiziana La Melia, Glint includes contributions from James Albers, Emily Fedoruk, Jenn Jackson, Kiel Torres, Christian Vistan, and Alison Yip.
This publication is presented in conjunction with Tiziana La Melia’s exhibition Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster, on view at Or Gallery from February 6 to May 10, 2025. A performative reading of the magazine with artists Kiel Torres, Christian Vistan, and James Albers will take place at Or Gallery on Saturday, February 22.
Participant Bios
Emily Fedoruk
Emily Fedoruk is a poet and antidisciplinary scholar who is the SpokenWeb Postdoctoral Fellow in the Multimedia Archive at SFU this year. She grew up on unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Halkomelem speaking peoples in the extracolonial suburb we call New Westminster and completed a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2019. She published a book of poems, All Still, in 2008 and is at work on two manuscripts: one investigates the role of poetry in public space, and the other is a study of radical classes in the arts since 1960.
Natasha Katedralis
Natasha Katedralis is an artist living and working on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territores colonially known as Vancouver, BC. Her practice incorporates a diversity of photographic tools, alongside material forms and sculpture. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Toy Bubble (Joys, Toronto 2024), and Eyebat, The Cutting Floor (Burnaby Art Gallery Offsite, March 2025). Katedralis is a two-time shortlist nominee for The Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize (2017, 2022).
Tiziana La Melia
Tiziana La Melia is an artist and author born in Palermo (IT) and raised on an orchard-garden on Syilx/Okanagan territories. She works across many media such as painting, poetry, sculpture, collaboration, collage and drawing. In her writing and art practice, Tiziana gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, and iterative shapes and symbols, which move through layers of diasporic time. Over the past few years, they have been editing a video that features friends and family performing the simple life in a fabled drama between hamsters and mice, travelling between the rural and the urban, while tracing familial and symbolic understandings of food, clothing, and place. In October 2022, Tiziana released Kletic Kink, a poetry album with musical compositions by Ellis Sam. Her latest book of poetry, titled lettuce lettuce please go bad, was published by Talon Books in April 2024.
Dana Qaddah
Dana Qaddah (b. Beirut, Lebanon) is an interdisciplinary artist and organizer whose practice is contextualized by themes of building from, and through, colonial legacies, environmental and economic deterioration, and abstraction from one’s own sense of self and place.