Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora is a writer/artist/arts
worker of mixed Turkish and settler-Canadian heritage. Yasmine holds a
Bachelors in Art History from the University of British Columbia and
currently lives and works between the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm,
Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ and the K'ómoks First Nation.
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All works licensed under a Creative Commons License. All images are taken by me unless otherwise credited.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 - “Breeding
Colonial Photo-Literacy,” academic paper, Undergraduate Journal of Art History and Visual Culture, Vancouver, B.C.
2018 - “2534 Parker
Street,” prose, SAD Mag, Vancouver, B.C.
PERFORMANCES/EXHIBITIONS/RESIDENCIES
2024 - Boombox, audio/dance collaboration with Derya Whaley-Kalaora (December)
What Lab residency, audio/food centered collaboration with Chipo Chipaziwa and Hannah Sofia Eriksson (June - August)
2023 - P.L.U.R.O.M.A SS23 fashion show, collaboration Hannah Sofia Eriksson, Liquidation World, Vancouver, B.C. (Febuary)
2022 - Similkameen Artist Residency
Shared Bodies, Commissioned for Platforms: We Are Here, Live by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, project by Guadalupe Martinez, cinematography and post production by Luciana Freire D’Anunciacao.
2021 - Reflections on
a Window Glass, “Chapter 1 CUERPO,” Guadalupe Martinez and collaborating artists
2020 - Research/Resurgence, Or Gallery, Vancouver,
B.C., curated by Denise Ryner
2019 - CUERPO, Or
Gallery at Cathedral Square, Vancouver, B.C., curated by Denise Ryner
OnSite!, UBC Student Performance Art Festival, Vancouver, B.C.
Spill: Response, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Spill Radio, “Episode 12”
2018 - Resonance,
FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., curated by Pablo de Ocampo
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 (ongoing) - C.L.A.M. (Cinema, Literature, Art, and Media), an intermittent event of curated
short films and performance art,
Vancouver, B.C. ( @_c.l.a.m_)
2021 - Annotating the
Archives, LIVE Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver, B.C.
2020 - The Works of the AMS
Art Collection (yes, all of them), Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
How to Unroll a
Baxter&?, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.