Earthly Pleasures
June 14 – July 9, 1994
Exhibition
About the Program
Earthly Pleasures is a group show focusing around the site of "pleasure." Curator Larissa Lai felt that as East and South East Asian women, pleasure so rarely enters into the spaces of work or discussion. Many of these women are too busy surviving, too busy catering to the needs and pleasures of others, too accustomed to the racist/sexist positioning of their bodies as objects rather than subjects of pleasure, because it focuses on a conception of the individual which comes very much out of a Euro/American liberal democratic politic which places the individual's "pursuit of happiness" above social needs or the importance of (extended) family. Lai thought, however, that "pleasure" might serve as a locus to begin defining an activist battle beyond the recognition of an oppressed past. Earthly Pleasures is perhaps more accurately about memory, as a starting point for empowerment. Moving away from traditional gallery contexts which privilege the (masculine, colonizing) act of looking, and sight as the primary measure of reality, this show encourages the uses of all the senses. The work is being shown at grunt, a gallery with a "community feel," and which is in the neighbourhood the curator and many of the artists call home. There is a homey-ness to this work, within the body, within the neighbourhood that insists on their presence and experiences as primary.Curator
Larissa LaiIdentifier
1994.0614 EARCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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