The above photograph is from a performance series titled "Yes! Dear."  Dong speaks, "During the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, I wore a military suit and used my left hand (the "wrong" hand) to salute to things relating to the Olympics, such as Olympic symbols, the massive advertisements, tourists, and so on.  This performance demonstrates how the Olympics and Olympic tourists, invaded Vancouver. This salute is not a mark of respect and approval, but represents my attack and desire to fight back."

Chun Hua describes herself as an interdisciplinary artist, working in performance, video, installation and painting.  "I am interested in how performance blurs the boundaries between normal and abnormal behaviours in our everyday lives, and shortens the distance the distance between scripted actions and inherent manners. I am also exploring how technology transforms the materiality of the body to create a new language, acknowledging hat the body can be generated and reinvented."

Her work has been shown within the CODE.Live 2 Exhibition (Cultural Olympiad 2010), exhibited and screened in local galleries, community centres, and theatres in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Dong will graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design May 2011.

Photo Credit: Phoebe Jin, 2010

Craig has a BA in Literature from Concordia, working extensively with the International Music Festival Pop Montreal (from 2006-10). Organizing Talks, Workshops, and Lecture Series is another investigation of hers; in 2008 she was featured in the Montreal Mirror for her Greasy Goose lecture series, bringing "its wierdo intellectual cabaret to the streets." Locally, she is one third of the Association of Very Good Ideas (2010), a group that approaches community events through the arts, probing the who, what, where, and hows of community through time-based, high-energy events.

Craig will be reading, writing, and researching in the Tin Can Studio for a period of 10 months, culminating in a hopeful presentation of her finished work. Some points of reference for research are below.

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Justin grew up in rural Alberta and now lives, does music and visual art in Vancouver. For the past year or so he has been playing live experimental music with Haunted Beard (co-formed in winter 2008 by Tom Whalen and Ben Jacques) and Grosslords (formed with Ben Jacques in 2008). Justin likes to work with other artists and started working with Ben Jacques in Calgary where they were involved with the Arbour Lake Sghool together in 2005. He has worked and shown work in some galleries with his Calgarian collaborators Arbor Lake Sghool and Stacey Watson for the past five years. He will be having his first solo showing of sculptures and drawings at Pith gallery in Calgary in October of 2010.  He holds a BFA from University of Calgary (sculpture and drawing).

Since moving here just one and a half short years ago, Martinez has been a consistent force in Vancouver, exhibiting continually in groups hows, both in solo and collaborative efforts - "Borderland Towers" will be her first solo show in Vancouver!

Martinez will be reading, studying, talking, writing and thinking upon concepts related to homeland, cultural identity, territory, and landscape while in the Hammock Residency, in preparation for an upcoming multi-disciplinary exhibition.

Her solo show, "Borderland Towers" will be exhibiting at the Shudder Gallery, September 2010.