Exhibitions
Urban Screen, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, daily 8 AM–9 PM
fertile ground
Miriam Berndt
Libby Leshgold Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of Miriam Berndt’s fertile ground on the Emily Carr Urban Screen. The screening will run through November, 2024.
fertile ground strives to tell the complex story of the False Creek Flats through images sourced from archives, databases, news outlets, community organizations, and original photographs. The resulting video collage combines approximately three-hundred individual frames to form a rhythmic movement, pointing toward a futurity of co-existence and hope. fertile ground illuminates the transformation of the False Creek Flats over time and inspires a sense of interconnectedness, hope, and cultural pluralism, making the claim that a complex and even oppressive past can cultivate the most fertile ground for the coming together of peoples.
Public Programmes
fertile ground: listening event with divide the silence
October 9, 6–8 PM
Integrated Motion Capture Studio, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Biographies
Miriam Berndt (B.Env.Des, SITES AP) is a mixed-media visual artist, landscape designer and environmental planning consultant, living in c̓əsnaʔəm (so-called Marpole, Vancouver BC). She is the daughter of Theresa from Kahkewistahaw First Nation, Jim of Irish ancestry, and the step-daughter of Chris from the Six Nations of the Grand River. Her artwork explores themes of generational healing, hybrid identity, and land-based epistemologies. Her practice in art and design employs a multi-disciplinary approach, combining the processes and materials of fine art and landscape architecture, to tell stories of place through abstract expressions and integrated design solutions. Through her practice she seeks to reveal truths and heal wounds caused by colonial violence through storytelling. Not just by telling the horrifying facts and sad stories — but by taking the fullness of these stories, including the joy with the suffering, to create something utterly new.
Urban Screen
Located outdoors in the campus’ southeastern plaza, the Urban Screen is a public art initiative of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program in partnership with Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Offering 4–6 new commissions a year, the Urban Screen spotlights local and international artists and filmmakers working across diverse media disciplines of art, design, media, and technology. The screen operates daily from 8 AM–9 PM.
