Intergenerational Memory and Transformation
This collaborative residency is an opportunity to explore familial connection, growth and loss through personal art-making that overlaps in a small space. The cannibal lot, in a process of decay and transformation, hosts the explorations of a group of individuals of different generations, intertwined over time and space to come together and create a space of exploration.
Visiting from Vancouver, Alexandra Flynn’s project explores the fusion of text and texture by wallpapering handwritten and scripted narratives onto walls and embedding them into layers of plaster. The integration of these scripts into existing materials creates an evolving, tactile dialogue between language, space, time and people, highlighting the impermanence of memory and the transformation of words over time.
Visiting from Montreal, Myra Leibu and her six year old co-creator Zavi Flynn Leibu-Code move beyond the semiotic notion of being held and being released, what can shelter you and free you, by giving two people – a kid and their parent – some space and time to make together. Exploring shapes (spirals), spaces (houses), relationships (nurturing) by building and deconstructing found materials, through mark making, projection and in conversation, this process-oriented project aims to not necessarily leave a specific trace, but rather have a collaborative and somatic experience of creative expression, placemaking and community.
The group will be inviting guests for a dinner on May 2, and there will be a special screening of short film shot in the space by a young filmmaker ‘InsaneHead’.
Residency: April 30-May 3, 2025
Cannibal Dinner May 2nd, 2025