Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke
Shiraz Bayjoo
Blaine Campbell
Carolina Caycedo
Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman
Luciana Freire D'Anunciação
Marja Helander
Cheyenne Rain LeGrande
Beric Manywounds
Natalie Purschwitz
Ahilapalapa Rands 
Genevieve Robertson
 

Luminocity, a week-long outdoor video art exhibition, returned to the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw. Dynamic video projections and immersive light experiences filled the grass field at Riverside Park and transformed the exterior of the Kamloops Art Gallery. With projects that range from narrative storytelling to experimental film and animation, accompanied by nightly tours in the Riverside Park, Luminocity offers a portal to urban transformation and insightful encounters for all ages.  
 

Through the vibrant and compelling work of 12 artists and collaborators from East Africa, Northern Europe, the Pacific Rim, South America, and Turtle Island, Luminocity 2023 shared diverse sensibilities of place, underscoring the interdependence between people and the natural world. This iteration of Luminocity transported us to sites of contestation, with embodied and performative practices offering intimacy, connection, and refusal. The selection of videos considers the global impacts of the tightly wound relationship between capitalism and colonization on the natural environment and the migratory movements of people. Although the effects of capitalism and colonization are experienced globally as an enmeshed web of histories, local contexts retain a specificity of ancestral medicine, customs, and storytelling.  

 

Curated by Emily Dundas Oke and Charo Neville. 
Learn more: luminocity.ca/