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Feet in Water, Head on Fire

Terra Long

Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, Indigenous palm trees and date palms imported from the Middle East flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley Feet in Water, Head on Fire is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place.

scores for failed structures of the private

Eve Tagny
Canada | 2024 | 12 minutes | No Dialogue

scores for failed structures of the private, a new body of work created while in residence at Ace Hotel Toronto, explores how concepts of private ownership and privacy are foundational to Western racialized notions of the civilized, modern human being. Through gestures and embodied expressions, Eve calls this underpinning into question: how do these fraught foundations predetermine our relationships to nature, labor, sustenance and intimacy in urbanized spaces?
AFK | Screenings

Together May We Find Plenty

Please join us for Together May We Find Plenty, co-presented by Images Festival and Ace Hotel Toronto as part of the Shorts in Conversation series. Together May We Find Plenty offers relational abundance in the midst of scarcity and tribulation alongside recent work by Eve Tagny and Terra Long. 

Exploring the intricate interplay between private ownership and racialized notions of civility in Western society, scores for failed structures of the private by Eve Tangy reconsiders established notions of privacy and belonging. Alongside performer and choreographer Nyda Kwasowsky, Eve questions the predetermined roles that govern nature, labour, sustenance, and intimacy within urban environments. Their movements erode underlying power structures embedded within systems of privacy and ownership, fostering dialogue around the complexities of living in present-day Toronto. 

Influenced by the seismic activity of the San Andreas Fault, California's Coachella Valley forms the backdrop for Terra Long's feature debut, Feet in Water, Head on Fire, co-written by Daniela Uribe, Mireya Martinez and Sharlene Bamboat. This documentary oscillates between vast geological epochs and intimate examinations of local flora and fauna, revealing intricate narratives of human interconnection alongside and through microscopic glimpses of cellular life. Shot on 16mm film and employing hand-processing techniques infused with vegetation from the Coachella Valley, the film captures the essence of place and embodies it materially.

scores for failed structures of the private and Feet in Water, Head on Fire are themselves entangled collaborations. Whether through film or video performance, both works delve into the nuances of complex relations and socio-political realities within specific geographical contexts.

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Date / Time
March 27, 2024
7:00PM – 9:30PM EDT
Conversation

Please join us following the screening for a conversation between Eve Tagny and Terra Long.

Gallery Hours

Find us at the Ace Hotel, Interspace at 7PM on the lower level. Please RSVP by clicking the "Purchase Tickets Here" button below. Tickets are free, RSVP is appreciated.

Location
Ace Hotel Toronto

51 Camden St, Toronto, ON M5V 1V2

Street level entrance, elevator and ramp available. Accessible gender neutral and single occupancy washroom with automatic door.

For a map to Ace Hotel Toronto, click here

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Eve Tagny, Terra Long
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Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.