Join us for a sensory engagement experience facilitated by our Artists-in-Residence, Love Intersections.
As part of their artist residency at WAHC, Love Intersections’ Jen Sungshine and David Ng invite participants into an embodied artmaking workshop that explores the question: What are the medicines that are missing from our communities, our cultural lineages, and ourselves?
Centered on sensory engagement, the workshop integrates dried herbs/spices and collaging, allowing participants to connect to stories of ancestry, healing, and community resilience through a tactile experience. This event is designed as an intentional break from cerebral, conversation-heavy spaces, shifting the focus toward embodied, sense-making reflection.
Together, we’ll consider what medicines can be a vessel for remembering, remaking, and reclaiming what has been lost, buried, or forgotten.
Jen Sungshine is a queer Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist, community facilitator, and cultural producer based in Vancouver, BC. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections, and the Outreach Curator at The Polygon Gallery. Her works include “Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny”, “Drag is for Everyone”, both winners of the Gerry Brunet Memorial Award for best BC Short; and “The House of 9 Dragons”, an oral history exhibit in Chinatown. She loves hotpot and wants to know what your favourite hotpot ingredient is. jensungshine.com
David Ng is the Co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections. His work has also recently included collaborations with Primary Colours / Couleurs primaires, which is an initiative to decolonize the Canadian art system by putting Indigenous arts practices at the centre, through the leadership of Indigenous artists, supported by artists of colour. David has been a filmmaker for 22 years, and more recently through Love Intersections, he has produced over 15 short films, which have screened internationally at over 60 film festivals. His last film, Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny screened at the Academy Award Qualifying festivals: The Leeds International Film Festival, and the Aesthetica Film Festival. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. davidng.art
Love Intersections is a media arts collective made up of queer artists of colour dedicated to using collaborative art-making and relational storytelling to address systemic racism in our communities. We produce intersectional and intergenerational stories from underrepresented communities of colour – centering the invisible, the spiritual, the metaphysical and the imaginary. We believe in deep and meaningful relationships, that intersectionality is a verb and a call to action, that we must cultivate social trust through collective care and community responsibility. Our desire is to provoke (he)artful social change through the lens of love. https://loveintersections.com/
WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, CUPE National, the Canada Council for the Arts, Canada’s Building Trades Unions, OPSEU/SEFPO and Teamsters Local Union 879 for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.
For more information, please contact Sylvia Nickerson, Programming and Exhibitions Specialist, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or sylvia@wahc-museum.ca
