Ghost Spring

January 5 – February 17, 2018
Exhibition, Gathering/Meal/Social

About the Program

Ghost Spring was a two-person show by Dilara Akay and Derya Akay looking at funeral practices within their own family in Turkey, passing down information from one generation to the next. This mother and son team re-creates the rituals around death for some lives who are not considered grievable. The artists produced an installation and a series of activations that explored ways to deal with ghosts/griefs of many geographies/generations and ways to coexist—focusing especially on food that is presented to, and eaten for, the dead. The works in the gallery included garlands and flowers, texts and drawings as offerings to their ancestors.

January 13, 2018: Procession through cemetery, candle lighting and Turkish tea served at Mountain View Cemetery Celebration Hall & Courtyard
January 20, 2018: Turkish coffee fortune readings and traditional Turkish Tahini Helva served at grunt gallery
January 27, 2018: Akay family game from their great-grandmother titled 1001 Fortunes and traditional Noah’s Pudding served at grunt gallery

Artist

Derya Akay, Dilara Akay

Curator

Glenn Alteen

Identifier

2018.0105 GHO

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Mountain View Cemetery Celebration Hall & Courtyard
5455 Fraser Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5W 2Z3
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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