ARTIST TALK
Chinese Year of Water Dragon History Telling by Launie Wong Fairbairn
DATE: Saturday March 9, 2024 1 - 2p
COST: FREE EVENT (by donation)
Launie Wong Fairbairn, a diasporic daughter of teenage picture bride No.4 & 60’s senior citizen father, will give a pictorial and historical dialogue on Strathcona’s demographic culture before gentrification. Historical photos depict housing remnants and the social fabric which are presented alongside Launie’s own experiences, photographs, and memories growing up here.
Launie recently presented her exhibition at Gallery 881 in June 2023. Her Circa mid-70s images capture an idealistic, wistful, tribal and free-spirited flower power contemplation and enchantment. Shot on discontinued chrome film manipulated for random, spontaneous and abstract grain then analog printed on obsolete archival forerunner Cibachrome by the artist. Both processes fell victim to modern technology for a proclaimed practical digitization.
On March 9, 2024, we will turn back the clocks and explore the neighbourhood as it was and as it’s remembered. The talk takes place in context to our current exhibition, “Where I’m From,” featuring work by Megan Kwan and Jeremy Jude Lee.
Subject Erian Baxter, daughter of NE Thing Co. founders Ingrid & Ian Baxter, and Artist Launie Wong Fairbairn at Gallery 881.
