Pedestrian Protest, 2021

microsite: PEDESTRIAN PROTEST

We acknowledge that we live and create on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəyə̓ m (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish) and səli̓ lwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.

As artists with settler origins of European ancestry, we hope to humbly honour these lands with our creative endeavours. While working on Pedestrian Protest, we were privileged to collaborate with extraordinarily talented artists from many communities. We do not aim to claim their practices as our own, rather to stand alongside, as allies, the many artists that make up the layered project Pedestrian Protest. We asked our local community of dancers, activists, musicians, and visual artists to respond to the concept of protest. Each was asked to choose a site along Georgia Street, or beyond, and to create an action, choreography or performance that would be documented though media and photography. Created during COVID-19 through socially distant exterior film shoots, the creativity and intimacy of the experience is palpable. Many spoke through movement and interviews of how their existence embodies protest, that moving through the world in their body is a protest. Still others spoke of their quiet activism and how protest can be seen as healing and as medicine, particularly in the urban environment.

Part of our own activism has been to bring attention to performers and performer’s rights. Each artist or collective was compensated beyond CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation) rates, fully credited, and also holds shared rights
to anything involving their creative work and contribution to Pedestrian Protest. Collaborating artists also receive master copies of media, to edit and to create their own ongoing projects.

Evann Siebens + Keith Doyle

PEDESTRIAN PROTEST PRODUCTION TEAM
Lead Artists
Evann Siebens + Keith Doyle

Collaborating Artists Katie Cassady, Justine A. Chambers, Rita Wong + Stacy Gallagher, Butterflies in Spirit: Lorelei Williams, Tabatha Frank, Jacqueline Michell + Shawnee Monchalin, Harmanie Rose + romham pàdraig gallacher, Margaret Dragu, Audrey Siegl, Pride in Chinatown: Kara Juku, Natasha Neale, Paul Wong + Tien Neo Eamas, Laura Crema + Seraphina Crema Black, Sophia Wolfe, Ralph Escamillan , Vanessa Goodman, Guadalupe Martínez, Gunargie O’Sullivan, Man Up Collective: Mx Bukuru, Vixen Von Flex, Ponyboy + Continental Breakfast, Sammy Chien, Bevin Poole , Eddy van Wyk , Kat Norris , Arash Khakpour, Sophia Gamboa, Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd, Hayden Pereira, Simran Sachar, Kevin Fraser, Josh Cameron + Vanessa Yuen , Lexi Mellish Mingo + Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros and  Tasha Faye Evans

Curator
Diana Freundl, Vancouver Art Gallery Interim Chief Curator/Associate Director

Curatorial Assistant
Julie Martin

Community Consultation
Vines Art Festival
Heather Lamoureux
Amanda Parafina

Research + Assistance
Liz Knox

Photoshop + Assistance
Alejandro A. Barbosa

Design + Detail
Taryn Sheppard

Film Shoot Assistance
Sophia Wolfe

Instagram + Film Shoot Assistance
Tamar Tabori

Website
The Future
Document Services

Pride In Chinatown Parade Team Assistant
Christian Yves Jones

Coast Salish Hawk Rattle Carving
Xwalacktun OBC

Installation Fabrication and Production Team
Abaton Projects Ltd, Icon Media and MultiGraphics

Supported by
British Columbia Arts Council

Upcoming publication supported by British Columbia Arts Council Canada Council for the Arts Vancouver Art Gallery

EXHIBITIONS

VANCOUVER ART GALLERY OFFSITE Public Art Installation 1100 West Georgia Street, Vancouver Canada April 9 - October 11, 2021

WRITING Publication of Pedestrian Protest Book Published by the Vancouver Art Gallery Upcoming 2024