installation by Roksan Kohen Parfitt.
Remembering the future in this interactive public installation, festival visitors are invited to create a postcard from a future they hope to live in.
What does an earthbound fantasy look like? Perhaps it holds clean oceans, thriving ecosystems, joyful elders, vibrant communities, enough for everyone, and a culture that no longer revolves around wanting more. Through drawing, painting, writing, and collage, participants can express visions, wishes, memories from the future, and imagination. Each postcard becomes part of a growing collective artwork: a wall of future messages created by the community. At the end of the festival, participants may take a postcard home as a reminder that the future is not only something that happens to us—it is something we can imagine, shape, and practice together.
We're grateful to collaborate and produce on the shared, stolen, unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwitslum and other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island, British Columbia. We recognize the complex impacts that hosting settlers and non-settlers has on the Indigenous land and peoples of this area, and we aim to be responsible and accountable for these impacts and our footprint—whether cultural, environmental or social.
We acknowledge the generous support of our partners and funders:
Active Passive Vol. 8 was curated by the A/PPS team of Amos Pencarrick Hertzman, Caitlin Pencarrick Hertzman, Paz Touchburn, and Nico Gonzlaes and our very special guest curator Reylinn.
Art Direction and Graphic Design by Slime Studio
