RML3 Undercurrents and Folds

Reading the Migration Library, a long-running artist project that has produced events and publications in the theme of migration and displacement, has just released its third and final series called Undercurrents and Folds. Host artists, Lois Klassen and Deanne Achong are thrilled to present six new publications in the series of creative responses to topics of displacement, diaspora, arrivals and failed arrivals, arrivants, travel over sovereign Indigenous territory, and the violence of forcible containment caused by colonizing states.

TITLES IN THE SERIES

Ac·cu·mu·la·tions, Clare Yow (2024)
Didactics to Postpone the End of the World, Sarah Shamash (2024)
Directions to BUSH Gallery, Tania Willard and Leah Decter (2024)
Mama D’Lo and Missy G Under the Sea, Deanne Achong (2024)
Hanafuda 花札 (Flower Cards), Candie Tanaka (2024)
x: the meeting place makes the spine, Leah Decter and Peter Morin (2024)

Host Artists
Lois Klassen + Deanne Achong

Klassen and Achong bring to this phase their past experiences with previous RML publications and events. While Lois Klassen is the founding artist-editor of RML with a hand in creating many of the previous publications and events, Deanne Achong is the web designer behind the project’s design and development, and the artist / creator of the 2017 RML artist book Workin’ for the Yankee Dollar.

Artists

Deanne Achong

Deanne Achong is an artist who works across disciplines, including digital and lens-based projects, installation and public art. She has a daily drawing habit, one which acts as a counterpoint to her digital practice, playing with the boundaries of domesticity and technology. Growing up in a multi-racial family,…

Leah Decter

Leah Decter is an inter-media/performance artist and scholar who divides her time between Treaty 1 territory and Kjipuktuk/Halifax, where she is an Assistant Professor in Media Arts and Canada Research Chair in Creative Technologies at NSCAD University. Working from a critical white settler perspective her solo and collaborative art and research practices address…

Lois Klassen

Lois Klassen is the hosting artist of Reading the Migration Library (RML), co-host with Deanne Achong of RML3: Undercurrents and Folds, and founder of Light Factory Publications (publisher of RML and Present Cartographers). In that capacity she collaborates with artists, writers, and designers, and edits the final bookworks.…

Peter Morin

Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. Morin’s artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating Land/Knowing, articulating Indigenous Grief/Loss, articulating Community Knowing, and understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous body. The work takes place in galleries, in community, in collaboration, and on the…

Sarah Shamash

Sarah Shamash is a practicing media artist, scholar, educator, and curator. Her artworks comprise the use of media in a wide variety of formats such as installation, documentary, photography, sound, performance, and video. Her works have been shown in curated exhibitions and film festivals internationally and have been awarded Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council grants.

Candie Tanaka

Candie Tanaka is a multiracial trans writer, artist, and librarian challenging the binaries continually reconstructed between self and other while exploring archive and memory in a socio-political context. They are a creative writing graduate of The Writer’s Studio program at Simon Fraser University and have a BFA in Intermedia…

Tania Willard

Tania Willard is a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist whose research intersects with land-based art practices. Her practice activates connection to land, culture, and family, centering art as an Indigenous resurgent act, though collaborative projects such as BUSH Gallery and support of language revitalization in Secwépemc communities. Her artistic and curatorial work includes Beat…

Clare Yow

Clare Yow 邱文贤 is a Chinese-Canadian visual artist working primarily in photography with documentary as its basis. Her practice is concerned with the politics of identity, community, and labour through a communion with a history of place. As a first generation immigrant, a settler, daughter, and mother, Clare’s…

Credits and Thank Yous

Book Design

Aaniya Asrani
Emily Davidson

Book Binder

Ruby Lewis of push pull press and many other volunteers.

Printers

Moniker Press, MET Fine Printers Inc, Copies Plus

RML3: Undercurrents and Folds would not be possible without funding and support from BC Arts Council (Individual Arts Award); Canada Council for the Arts (Research Creation, Explore and Create grant); SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Critical Media Art Studio, School of Interactive Art and Technology, SFU; Centre for Inter-Media Arts and Decolonial Expression (CIMADE), NSCAD and Canada Research Chairs Program; SITE/ation Studio, UBCO; and, Light Factory Publications.