A mark here, again
Curator, digital exhibition
Reel Asian Film Festival, 2022
A mark here, again is an interactive digital exhibition that embraces hyperlocality as an access point for community spaces and cultural networks to coalesce. With the impact of diasporic and multi-generational neighborhoods serving as the initial gesture, A mark here, again considers the resiliency, hope, and futurities that site-specific spaces hold for its growing members. The online exhibition features a mix of archival works and new commissions from Alexa Hatanaka, Atleigh Homma, Diana Nguyễn, Emerald Repard-Denniston, and Paul Wong, highlighting pan-Asian Canadian artists who range from emerging to established. These artists’ works experiment with personal histories and broader shared knowledge to support the social change required to fulfill community needs through an activist lens. A mark here, again is ultimately an offering of place-making as the necessary soil for ancestral intuitions to bind with contemporary connections and allow for mutual care to mature and strengthen.