Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Kevin Jesuino

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Kevin Jesuino

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist after their conversations.

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Moving For Love & Backbone: Brandon Wint’s Exploration of the Body and Jazz

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Moving For Love & Backbone: Brandon Wint’s Exploration of the Body and Jazz

“In my twenties, love was the only word I knew”, confesses filmmaker Brandon Wint in his documentary, Moving For Love (2024). The heartbeat of his work; Vancouver-based filmmaker and poet navigates the complexity of Black identity, the intersections of disability & race, and community-making in Vancouver through the lens of love.

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Incidental Reflections on the Urban in Taizo Yamamoto’s Carts, Hedges, Lions

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Incidental Reflections on the Urban in Taizo Yamamoto’s Carts, Hedges, Lions

Carts, Hedges, Lions reads as an urban archival project featuring detailed illustrations by Taizo Yamamoto that render moments and decades of Vancouver’s landscapes. Complimenting his drawings, Aaron Peck, Kevin Chong, and Jackie Wong bookend each collection of illustrations with an essay, rooted in their own relationships with the titular images. Yamamoto, an architect by trade and Principal of Yamamoto Architecture, has his works interspersed throughout the landscape of the Lower Mainland, representing perhaps, what may be ambivalently considered “modern builds.” Knowing that Yamamoto plays a role in the construction of Vancouver’s future urban landscape, these drawings in reverence to the Foo Dog, hedges, and shopping carts evoke a particular nostalgic effect. In an email exchange, Yamamoto speculates that this nostalgia is activated because these drawings “[record] moments that are already passed and lost.” I am one to agree.

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Ziggy Mimloid

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Ziggy Mimloid

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist after their conversations.

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"Under the Canopy" and "Last night, I named my body Solace" by Hanna Formosa

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"Under the Canopy" and "Last night, I named my body Solace" by Hanna Formosa

Last night, I named my body Solace, which means that I am a grown-up

kid, in blue Adidas track shorts, with a face flushed from either sunstroke or

rage, where rage refers to my pillowcase soaked with spit and two decades’ 

worth of silence. Silence, of course, gives way to sound, and this afternoon’s hymn

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Anne SueYeun Seol

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Anne SueYeun Seol

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist after their conversations.

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Em Haine

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Em Haine

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist after their conversations.

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