EXHIBITIONS
WORLD AS TRIPOD
World as Tripod brings together new works by Vancouver based artists: Casey Wei, Lauraine Mak, and Jaewoo Kang. The exhibition will run from September 13 to November 15, 2025, and will be accompanied by a curated film screening hosted by DIM Cinema at The Cinematheque, as well as a public artist talk at Centre A.
This multidisciplinary exhibition explores familial, ancestral, and cross-cultural histories of the East Asian diaspora in Vancouver, grounded on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. The three artists navigate the relationship between perception, memory, and identity through embodied, often intimate forms of artistic practice. Working across video, painting, sculpture, and installation, their works share a commitment to sensory immediacy, durational engagement, and the reclamation of overlooked subjectivities.
For October’s iteration of DIM Cinema at the Cinematheque, the artists have collaboratively curated a shorts program under the same prompt, featuring works by artists Elvo Axt, Barry Doupé and Dennis Ha, Russell Gordon, Reed Jackson, Clark Nikolai, and Chris Zhongtian Yuan.
Artist Biographies
Casey Wei (b. 1985, Shanghai) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice in filmmaking, writing and performance is informed by participatory activities such as editing, publishing and programming. Her video installation The Zhang Clan (2024) won the inaugural Lind Biennial. Her moving image works have screened at The Cinematheque (Vancouver, BC), Images Festival where Wei was the 2019 Canadian Spotlight Artist (Toronto, ON), Or Gallery (Berlin), Clermont-Ferrand (France), International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and elsewhere. She has played in numerous festivals and concerts in North America, Europe, and East Asia with her band Kamikaze Nurse, and her solo project, hazy. Wei is the co-founder and Editor of ReIssue magazine, and Shorts Programmer at Vancouver International Film Festival. Her writing has been featured in C Magazine, Comparative Media Art Journal, the Journal of Visual Culture, and Made in China Journal. She is Moe Ray’s mom.
Jaewoo Kang is a queer Korean-Canadian, an interdisciplinary artist working with film, animation, textile and performance. His training in art started with visual art, which allowed him to be interested in moving images. A major theme for him is queer eroticism and how intimate moments with others can allow the self to have an introspective experience. Recently he finished a residency at Griffin Art Project in North Vancouver with a fashion performance presentation. He also has been working with performers to integrate fashion and art. Most recently he was part of a durational fashion performance project, Returns. With the support of Canada Council and BC Arts Council, he is currently in post-production for his first animated feature film, Primavera. His other recent project includes puppet clown fashion performance ButtHead with 2Girls1Butt collective with Rhyan McCorkindale at rEvolver Festival.
Lauraine Mak is a Vancouver-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, moving image, and installation. Her work is informed by philosophical inquiry and political theory, often engaging with visual cultures shaped by late capitalism. Central to her practice are investigations into repetition and the coexistence of simultaneous, paradoxical sentiments. She explores institutional critique and examines the role of the artist as producer within contemporary systems of mass production and industrial manufacturing.
Mak has recently exhibited in Salzburg, Berlin, and Gimpo, South Korea, and is currently developing a solo exhibition in Cairo, Egypt for 2026. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2013) and was a guest student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Rita McBride in 2019. In 2024, she earned her MFA from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
SPONSORS
SPONSORS
This program is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver and by the British Columbia Arts Council.
