Our epic collab with Vancouver’s superstar drag group the Darlings with our new media holographic projection, motion capture and live visual work, into a retro multimedia drag performance.

ARCHIVE is an experimental retrospective exhibition featuring a body of new, reworked, and reimagined works created by the multidisciplinary, non-binary drag collective, the Darlings. For the first time in the collective’s history, this exhibition is a collaborative effort presented in partnership with Chimerik 似不像 Collective. The exhibition incorporates performance, drag, immersive new media projection, sculpture, multi-channel video installation, and an archive of costumes, props, and more. Concerned with queer and trans temporality while working through the artists’ individual and shared memories, ARCHIVE is an evocative and nostalgic reclamation of trans lived experience, and a collective pursuit of joy and intimacy in a digital age.

ARCHIVE June 16th & 17th

door: 7pm pre-show: 7:30 show: 8pm

📍The Birdhouse @eastsideartsspace

44 W 4th Ave, Vancouver (entrance on 4th Ave, by a big pink trailer in a big parking lot)

🎟️🔗https://www.showpass.com/the-darlings-x-chimerik-collective-presents-archive-saturday-night/

Chimerik 似不像 @chimerikcollective Sammy Chien @soasr55 Caroline MacCaull @carolinemaccaull Jasmine Liaw @jasmineliaw_ Vanka Salim @vanka.cs

The Darlings @thedarlingsdrag Rose Butch @rose.butch Maiden China @queenmaidenchina P.M. @pmforagoodtime Continental Breakfast @contibreakfast

Music: Stefan Seslija

teaser 1:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtS3fBKrErU/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtYOaUyAghb/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==