LUMINOCITY

2023

Sep 1

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke
Shiraz Bayjoo
Blaine Campbell
Carolina Caycedo
Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman
Luciana Freire D'Anunciação
Marja Helander
Cheyenne Rain LeGrande
Beric Manywounds
Natalie Purschwitz
Ahilapalapa Rands
Genevieve Robertson

Kamloops Art Gallery and Riverside Park
October 14 to 21, 2023

Curated by Emily Dundas Oke and Charo Neville

Luminocity, a week-long outdoor video art exhibition, returns to the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw this fall. Dynamic video projections and immersive light experiences will fill the grass field at Riverside Park and transform the exterior of the Kamloops Art Gallery. With projects that range from narrative storytelling to experimental film and animation, accompanied by nightly tours in the Riverside Park, Luminocity offers a portal to urban transformation and insightful encounters for all ages.

Through the vibrant and compelling work of 12 artists and collaborators from East Africa, Northern Europe, the Pacific Rim, South America, and Turtle Island, Luminocity 2023 shares diverse sensibilities of place, and underscores the interdependence between people and the natural world. This iteration of Luminocity transports us to sites of contestation, with embodied and performative practices offering intimacy, connection, and refusal. The selection of videos considers the global impacts of the tightly wound relationship between capitalism and colonization on the natural environment and the migratory movements of people. Although the effects of capitalism and colonization are experienced globally as an enmeshed web of histories, local contexts retain a specificity of ancestral medicine, customs, and storytelling.

Visit the KAG Luminocity website for full details about each artist, talks, tours, and more.