FLEET: Edmonds

Edmonds Park, Intersection of Humphries and Rosewood Ave

January 6-27, and April 7-27, 2025

Community Centre Pop-up on January 23rd at 3 PM at the Edmonds Community Centre

Artist Talk and Listening Exercise on January 26th at 1 PM at FLEET: Edmonds

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We want to give a warm welcome to Sidi Chen, who will be activating the FLEET: Edmonds studio during January and April 2025.  Chen’s project at FLEET has two parts; in the winter they will invite the public to contribute rain vessels for a sound walk and recording project, and in the spring they will hold workshops creating home-made chalk using eggshells for a community mapping project.  

Chen is collecting small containers (cups, bowls, mugs, vases, pots, etc.) as a way to record the sound of raindrops. Chen asks community members to bring a water-collecting vessel that has personal or cultural connections. All of the borrowed vessels will be returned back to the owner with corresponding sound clips at the end of Chen’s time in the studio. If you have vessels that you would like to contribute to this project, please bring them to the FLEET: Edmonds studio Tuesday - Saturday, 2-5 pm or contact Chen to arrange a drop-off.

Join us for a Pop-up with Sidi Chen at the Edmonds Community Centre on January 23rd from 3-6 PM. More information here.

Join us for an artist talk and listening exercise with Sidi Chen on January 26th at 1 PM. More information here.

Sidi Chen (MFA) is a diasporic queer artist who inquires the relational aesthetics through performance, media arts, and other interdisciplinary practices. Through their research across arts, natural science, and community development, Chen imagines alternative relations and perspectives with the world through mediations by bodily mobility and empathy. Sidi Chen is currently working as a practicing artist and an independent arts administrator on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim speaking peoples, known as Burnaby, BC. 

Image (above): Tidal Locking, Sidi Chen and Johannes Zits, image still of performance video, 2023.

Image (below): Facet of Deconstruction, Sidi Chen, Digital Photograph, 2018.