Wayne Mercier is a noise artist working with sound and light. He has performed as a poet and audiovisualist on Canada’s west coast since the turn of the century. Alyssa Semczyszyn is a Landscape Architect and textile artist who works with flexible form in the realm of the tactile. Together they compose and perform as THRUMS – a textile driven ritual powerdrone outfit in the reach of the Salish Sea.
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: