Transient Rhythms
Transient Rhythms considers the shifting landscape of Vancouver's creative centres and impact of gentrification on individuals, communities and physical spaces.
The Red Gate Arts Society, a cornerstone of the community and major purveyor of Vancouver’s music and art scene, embraces a DIY ethos. In celebration of Red Gate’s 20th anniversary, The Hargrove presents Transient Rhythms, which delves into the history, influence and perseverance of DIY art spaces in Vancouver. The artists highlight the resilience of local art communities, navigating and resisting the forces that challenge their existence. Through photography, sound, and sculpture, the exhibition examines diasporic sound, intimacy, and experiences of immigration and displacement.
Curated by artists for artists, this exhibition celebrates and embodies the spirit of DIY, questioning how we remember and anchor ourselves in a context of constant change. Transient Rhythms is a platform for artists to push conventional boundaries in an environment where experimentation is encouraged.
This project is a partnership with The Hargrove, Red Gate Art Society, and the curators, Jefferson Alade and Claudia Goulet-Blais, on a voluntary basis, to showcase and celebrate local and emerging art and artists in the city. Thank you to the participating artists who generously shared their work and experiences with the curators, collaboratively creating a space where artistic exploration and dialogue come together to facilitate a conversation on the shifting of creative spaces.
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artists and curators
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Jefferson Alade
Curator
Jefferson (he/him) is an interdisciplinary creative currently based on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Bridging the realms of music, design and curation, he is currently completing his Master of Design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Prior to attending Emily Carr, he studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. There, he completed his Bachelor of Arts in Communication and a minor in Music Industry. At Emily Carr, Jefferson’s practice centers around reimagining music listening experiences and how musical and sonic experiences can form, build and shape community.
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Claudia Goulet-Blais
Curator
Claudia (b. 1996, Montréal, BC) is an image-based photo installation artist whose work examines the complexity of memory, histories, and identities. Her practice is rooted in personal experiences and connections with both people and her surrounding environment. Her work pays close attention to body language, interaction, and collecting as part of a process of constructing images that communicate internal states. She focuses on the dynamics of mother-daughter connections, capturing the nuances of aging, memory, and care. Currently based in Vancouver she is completing an MFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Claudia is a co-founder of Colure Collective, and former art educator at OPTICA. She participated in a residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, and exhibited her work in Montréal at Eastern Bloc, Ada X, and in the Art Matters 2021 publication. In April 2024, she was part of the group exhibition CURRENT : Photography as a Pause at Gallery 881 in Vancouver.
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Nicole Bie
Artist
IG: @nikkiibie
Nicole Bie is a Filipinx Canadian artist that works across and between mediums, with her work anchored in ceramics. Mending together textiles, illustration, performance, and found objects. She explores intimacy, queer diaspora, changing landscapes, and femininity to world build dreamy lands that her art lives within. What does it mean to make space for herself and what could that do for others? Creating work that scatters to as many different connections as there are in her mind.
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Choi Sang Samson CHEUNG
Artist
Samson Choi Sang, CHEUNG, born in Hong Kong, initially explored art through playful mediums like sound performances and installations. In recent years, he started creating narratives, especially developing a character related to his father and a new immigrant role in his videos and images.
He participated in exhibitions and residencies in Hong Kong, Chicago, Kyoto, and Taipei. After relocating to Canada in 2022, he is pursuing an MFA at Emily Carr University of Arts and Design in Vancouver.
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Freya Harding
Artist
IG: @foto_frayy
Freya Harding is a Vancouver based artist primarily working with photography and currently studying at Emily Carr. Her work focuses on her experience as a Trans women, the body, and how Trans and Queer people exist in this world. Freya's work acts both as an exploration of her relationship to herself as well as others. Often using different methods modifying and collaging images as a form of taking back ownership and control of the trans body.
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Howsem Huang
Artist
Howsem Huang is a graphic designer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Holding BFA degrees in photography and graphic design, his main practices include publication design, publishing, and Risography. As a photobook artist Howsem’s artist practice explores his intersecting identity as a Cantonese-Chinese and a Chinese émigré. He has shown works in Boston University Art Galleries, IS A GALLERY, and SF Camerawork.
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Young Jin Lee
Artist
IG: @youngjinlntn
Lee Young-Jin (Hangul: 이영진; born December 7, 1998), also known as Linton, is an American-Canadian designer and artist of South Korean descent. Graduated Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a Bachelor of Design. My works investigate the reinterpretation and redefinition of objects. Using unorthodox methods and approaches, said objects are presented in unconventional settings, figuratively and literally, therefore detaching them from its original definitions and functions.
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Paniz Mani
Artist
IG: @paniz._.mn
Paniz Mani is an Iranian artist based in Vancouver, focusing mainly on photography in my practice.
Her work is greatly influenced by their ethnic background and their immigration journey. Her interests in psychology, sociology, and cultural studies also inform her artistic practice. In her works, she aims to reflect on political and social changes around her. In recent years, she has been specifically exploring the use of archival and found images, as well as other found materials.
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Hân Phạm
Artist
Hân Phạm (Phạm Thụy Mai Hân) is an emerging artist and filmmaker from Sài Gòn, Việt Nam. Experimenting with video and film, photography, and soundscape compositions, Hân’s works think through the ephemerality of memory, language, and history in relation to the constantly changing and dislocated landscapes, rooted in the in-betweenness of distance as space for reflection.
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Manuele Arias S
Artist
IG: @manueleariass
Based in Vancouver, Manuele Arias is a Colombian artist working with performance, text, and experimental painting. Using found objects and stones as collaborators, their art delves into themes of displacement, non-binary gender, and queerness from a perspective of not belonging. They create spaces that confront social binaries, honouring the complexities of human experiences. Their work often addresses pain, intensity, and survival, seeking balance in the in-between.