With the opening of the Image Bank exhibition on June 18, 2021, the gallery is pleased to launch the Outdoor Screen, a 4x2 metre outdoor screen curated with media works from the Belkin’s permanent collection and archive alongside work commissioned specifically for this platform.

Jana Tyner

Join curators Melanie O'Brian and Krista Belle Stewart for a tour of Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection, which centres around Stewart's video installation Seraphine, Seraphine (2015) to consider doubling – and duplicities – in personal and historical narratives. O'Brian and Stewart will walk through the exhibition and offer insights into the themes, conversations and points of resonance between Stewart's and the other works drawn from the Belkin's permanent collection.

In recognition of National Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Tuesday, 21 June, the Belkin’s Outdoor Screen will present a selection of videos that feature the work and words of Musqueam artists, cultural knowledge keepers and community members. The screenings will begin at 11 am, 1 pm, 3pm and 5 pm, with a one-time screening of c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city (2017) (1 h 13 m) at 6 pm.

On Sunday, June 20, the summer solstice, we will project Jumana Manna’s film Wild Relatives (64 minutes, 2018) on the Belkin's Outdoor Screen located on the exterior of the gallery's wall along Main Mall, in a conversation across media with Holly Schmidt’s Fireweed Fields. The strange, spasmodic course of space and time in recent months has been mitigated by little other than the changes in seasons, the rhythms of nature, and the communal spaces offered by the outdoors. Seasonal and celestial markers such as that of the solstice bring this collective orientation upward and outward into marked relief. Wild Relatives will screen first at 11 am and then on each odd hour with the last screening at 7 pm.