A site-responsive iteration of rumi roaming multimodal anthology, this exhibition is organized around seasons of nature, and creates multiple occasions for stepping out of the touristic ecology of Ucluelet, a popular storm-watching and surfing destination on Vancouver Island. At the beginning of each season a part of the project is presented on site, online and by mail. Find gift chapters from the anthology below.
The exhibition highlights our existential connections to land and water by exploring earth-focused and place-based creative practices through multi-spatial encounters, operating within an exhibition economy of harm reduction by using existing outdoor and virtual spaces, and recycled/reused paper and botanical inks and pigments made by the artist.
rumi roaming ucluelet includes Hashemi's 4-part video cycle oneness of being, presented at UMD Gallery & Projects and for online viewing. Each video is a kaleidoscopic visual reverie on land and water and seasonal changes, inspired by and interpolated with verses from Rumi.
Each season the project also includes a banner created with botanical inks made by the artist. The banner roams through Ucluelet for the season. Each banner is accompanied by limited edition tiny prints available on site at UMD, and by mail.
Fostering opportunities for decolonial culture-sharing between Indigenous and settler inhabitants, this iteration of the rumi roaming project explores affinities between Nuučanuł and Persianate cosmologies, taking its starting point from the phrase hišukʔiš c̓awaak (everything is one) and these Rumi lines with which the video cycle starts:
صبح وجود را به جز این آفتاب نیست / بر ذره ذره وحدت حسنش مقرریست
اما بدان سبب که به هر شام وهر صبوح / اشکال نو نماید گویی که دیگریست
The dawn of existence has only one sun / its oneness of being sustains every particle
Yet because it reveals new facets / at each dawn and dusk it looks as an other
winter solstice
Look for the banner around town
Look for QR codes posted around Ucluelet to go to the online videos
Winter edition of tiny prints at UMD Free in Tiny Gallery in the front yard on Bay Street - open 24/7
autumn equinox
Look for the banner in the Clayoquot region, on Highway 4 to Port Alberni
Look for QR codes posted around Ucluelet to go to the online videos
Autumn edition of tiny prints at UMD Free in Tiny Gallery in the front yard on Bay Street - open 24/7
summer solstice
June 20 - 7 PM on
View the new banner at Little Beach
Look for QR codes posted around Ucluelet to go to the online videos
Summer edition of tiny prints at UMD Free in Tiny Gallery in the front yard on Bay Street - open 24/7
Keep an eye out for the banner as it roams Ucluelet landscape.
spring equinox
March 19th - 6-8 PM
UMD Gallery - 1595 Bay Street
Exhibition opening and screening AND a celebration of Norouz
Other viewings by appointment
Tiny prints at UMD Free in Tiny Gallery in the front yard on Bay Street - open 24/7
Keep an eye out for the banner as it roams Ucluelet landscape.
Collect four 5.7 cm sq (2.25 in sq) linocut prints made with
botanical and archival inks on re-used hand-cut rag paper. Edition of
50, individually numbered and signed. You will receive them by mail one
per season as they are created. The spring and summer editions are ready
to ship.
Series price: 110 CAD | 110 USD | 100 EU - postage included
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