IMMERSIVE ART SHOWCASE
+ March - April 2025 + Monday-Friday, 6-9 PM + Saturday, 10AM-1PM +
Explore the power of the reset. Four visionary artists transform space through immersive installations and multi-sensory projections, redefining how we perceive change and renewal. This free public event is an invitation to engage, question, and immerse yourself in a living, breathing artistic experience. Meet the creators, interact with their work, and discover and dream.
EXPERIENCES
MARCH 10-15, 2025 +
“BARDO” + MOVE37XR Collective
THE EXPERIENCE
“Bardo” is an interactive installation beautifully intertwines the Earth’s water cycle with our own human life cycles. Participants will transform from rain into a powerful river, and eventually return as mist, reflecting on our connection to nature. Led by the visionary duo John Desnoyers-Stewart and Pravin Pillay, MOVE37XR Collective invites you to explore the profound relationships we share with the environment.
THE ARTISTS
MOVE37XR (M37) is a dynamic non-profit creative studio and emerging media research lab committed to crafting compelling transformative experiences that unite immersive art, cutting-edge technology, and our shared human experience. “Bardo” is a collaboration between John Desnoyers-Stewart and Pravin Pillay, with music by Ruby Singh.
MARCH 24-29, 2025 +
“Approach & Recede” + Leanne Olson
THE EXPERIENCE | “Approach & Recede”
Coming Soon
THE ARTIST | Leanne Olson
Leanne Olson is an artist, educator, curator and writer. During the last decade, Olson’s work has focused on land and water bodies that are tasked with jobs: landfills, sulphurous springs, and recreational lakes. Her practice includes repeat visitation and empathic documentation of these sites as they are entangled in massive change. The subjects in her images are often micro captures of ecosystems adapting to human odds and responding to the effects of time. In 2019, her solo exhibition With All Things Considered opened at the Mitchell Art Gallery and in 2021 she had a chapter published in the book Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene. In 2021, Olson completed a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of Victoria. Since then, she has been teaching as a Sessional Lecturer and is Curator of The Vault Gallery.
April 7-12, 2025 +
“Resting Phase” + Kemi Craig
THE EXPERIENCE | “Resting Phase”
Description Coming Soon
THE ARTIST | Kemi Craig
Kemi Craig (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist primarily working through dance and media based here in the Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. Her experience as a woman of the African diaspora inspires her art, amplifying underheard historical and contemporary narratives with our collective futures. With a belief that audiences are active participants who close the circle of creation in any work, she strives to amplify engagement through collective making and collaboration. Her work draws complex relationships between cultural production, identity and lived experiences using methods that are site-specific, multi-sensory and immersive. A graduate from Emily Carr University of Art Design with a Masters degree in Fine Art, she creates public art, exhibitions and performances across Canada.
April 21-26, 2025 +
"Echoes of the Ancestors:
Indigenous Art & The Path to Reconciliation" +
Jeremy Frederickson w/ Elder Mark Atleo
THE EXPERIENCE | “Echoes of the Ancestors: Indigenous Art & The Path to Reconciliation”
Echoes of the Ancestors: Indigenous Art & The Path to Reconciliation" is more than an
art show; it's an awakening. It's a journey into the heart of Indigenous resilience, told
through the vibrant strokes of Jeremy Frederickson and the profound wisdom of Elder
Mark Atleo. Frederickson, both artist and guide, unveils the sacred stories woven into
each piece, illuminating the cultural heartbeat that beats beneath the surface. But it is
Atleo, a residential school survivor, who lends his voice, a voice etched with the pain of
the past yet resonant with the unwavering strength of his people. His art, imbued with
lived experience, adds layers of depth and raw emotion, transforming the exhibition into
a powerful testament of survival and a beacon of hope for reconciliation. This
immersive film experience transcends mere observation, inviting you to connect with
the art, the artists, and the enduring spirit of a culture that refuses to be silenced.
Prepare to be moved. Prepare to understand. Prepare to witness the transformative
power of art in the long and vital journey towards healing.
THE ARTIST | Jeremy Frederickson
Jeremy Frederickson, born in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, in 1986, is a self-taught Indigenous artist living with disabilities. He is a dedicated mentor and visionary, currently residing on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Frederickson's artwork has been generously donated to several local organizations, including the Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society, the BC Aboriginal Network on Disability Society, and Haus of Owl. He has devoted his life's work to establishing the Anita Frederickson Foundation, named in honor of his late mother. The foundation aims to foster personal healing for individuals struggling with mental health and addiction. It emphasizes the revitalization of Indigenous cultural arts as a core principle, empowering individuals to navigate life's challenges with dignity through holistic healing approaches.
This project is proudly supported by the City of Victoria through the Our DWTN Ideas Fund.