Workshop: DIGEST THE OIL
Instructed by Kev Liang
OFF SITE PROGRAM: Rouleau Palliser Library- 113 MAIN ST, ROULEAU, SK
Saturday | March 22, 2025 | 3-5pm
What exactly is your relationship with food? The labor behind it, the heritage it carries, the familial ties, and the memories it holds—warm or cold—that shape your experience? Join Kev in reflecting on these themes through discussion, writing, and/or drawing before commemorating and “sealing” your thoughts with a silkscreened “stamp” from the artist: an image of a dining plate from the artist’s family restaurant, “Peking Cafe”, in Trochu, Alberta. Whether sharing recipes, ingredients, or personal stories, this workshop invites you to explore how food shapes identity, community, and the self.
Kev Liang (he/him) is an emerging artist based in Edmonton, Treaty 6 territory, with a BFA in Printmaking and Intermedia with Distinction from the University of Alberta. Kev has exhibited at SNAP Gallery, Latitude 53, Art Museum at the University of Toronto for the 2021 BMO 1st! Art award, The New Gallery, and more. He tackles his homo/queer, diasporic 2nd-gen Chinese-Canadian identity and its existential anxieties of lineage and prosperity within the Anthropocene. Kev was a Production Assistant for The Works International Visual Arts Society, a Gallery Intern for Latitude 53, as well as a Gallery Attendant for Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre. Recently, he has been interested and involved in community-based artistic projects concerning Edmonton’s Chinatown such as Chinatown Greetings and AIYA Collective and will continue to seek opportunities to contribute towards our own communities as well as expand artistically elsewhere.
Kev Liang（他）是一位新興藝術家，目前居住在艾德蒙頓，位於第六條條約領土，在阿爾伯塔藝術大學以優異成績獲得版畫和跨媒體藝術學士學位。Kev的作品曾在SNAP畫廊、Latitude 53、多倫多大學藝術博物館（2021年BMO 1st！藝術獎）等地展出作品。他探索自己的同性戀/酷兒、移民二代華裔加拿大人的身份，並關註人類世中血統和繁榮的存在焦慮。Kev曾擔任The Works International Visual Arts Society的製片助理，Latitude 53的畫廊實習生，以及Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre的畫廊管理員。最近，他對以藝術為基礎的社區項目產生了興趣並參與其中，這些項目涉及艾德蒙頓的唐人街，如Chinatown Greetings 和 AIYA Collective，並將繼續尋求機會在我們自己的社區做出貢獻，並在其他地方進行藝術拓展。
Translation by Christina Yao
You can sign up through the link below or by emailing [email protected].
Limited spots available.
