Welcome spring with several events this month that center around Earth Day, a celebration first held on April 22, 1970, in support for environmental protection.
Between Lorne and Scotia on E 1st Ave, the Burrard Arts Foundation (BAF) has its Garage — a literal garage door where local emerging artists are invited to display work, often concurrent with BAF Gallery exhibitions. Until March 19, /ˈsent(ə)nəl/ will be gazing out their windows. In this multimedia piece by Eric Tkaczyk, the windows of BAF’s door are illuminated 24/7 by intermittent, glitchy videos of eyes that seem to be pressed up against the panes of glass. They wheel and dart around their little confines, frantic and isolated. While the panes slot neatly together in space, the eyes projected onto them seem unable to interact with each other. In the day, sunlight softens the videos’ intensity, making them more tempered. But at night, without the sun’s mediation, the white eyes roll around in sharp contrast to the grid separating them and the softer yellow light of the streetlamps nearby. As articulated in the White Pube’s The Prob