We invite you to join us on this 30 year retrospective of “No Words Will Ever Do,” a film by artist Pia Massie. This event celebrates the film’s screening at the The Museum of Modern Art (NYC) in 1993. Following the screening, join us for a Q&A with local artist Pia Massie on her thoughts of the film and her view exactly three decades later.
IDENTITY AND HOME is exhibition of recent documentary and experimental independent video, which questions the traditional notions of the nuclear family and the "ideal" of the home as a safe haven, is on view at The Museum of Modern Art from November 18, 1993, through January 9, 1994. IDENTITY AND HOME includes twenty-one videotapes which redefine the meaning of home to encompass a broader, unorthodox view. — MOMA 1993 Press Release
NO WORDS WILL EVER DO (FILM):
Memory and the act of seeing are the central questions in this video. Massie started making this tape about the loss of her mother, and then realized that it was really about her father and what her mother's death did to him. Using hundreds of stills taken by Massie's father, who was a well-known photographer, this work tries to understand how family and memory are held together and blown apart by images.
Winner of Best Narrative video at the 17th annual Atlanta Film/Video Festival.
DETAILS:
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023. Doors open at 7pm. FIlm begins at 7:30pm. Doors close at 9pm.
Tickets: $15 Advanced / $25 At the door
Venue: Gallery 881, 881 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Parking: Plenty of free street parking in front and across from the gallery
PIA MASSIE (BIO):
Pia Yona Massie is a multi-media artist, environmental activist, and teacher. Massie’s films and art have been exhibited in museums, festivals, and galleries throughout North America and Europe, including The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne; and the grunt gallery in Vancouver, BC. Massie's writing has appeared in: DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Art; Forêt-Frontière : Une Action Art / Nature; as well as The Bulletin, Adbusters and Ricepaper magazines. Her work has received Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants, a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and numerous other awards.
At this moment, 40 years of her work is being brought online for a special collections archive by VIVO Media Arts. She is currently collaborating with a new generation of artists on a multi-media piece called Time Travellers Testimony which brings the voices of Clayoquot Sound's 'War in the Woods' back full circle to the engaged creatives on the frontlines continuing the ongoing protection of our air, land and water.
Pia has taught and mentored for over forty years, in gratitude to her early teachers, many collaborators and friends. This includes work at community centres and universities, outdoor environmental education and film schools, kindergarten through graduate school, in three countries: Canada, the USA and Japan.
In Vancouver: the Aries program, the Cousteau school, ECUAD, Fresh Air Learning, GIFTS, Pacific Cinematheque, SFU, Vancouver public schools and VFS. In the US: Bennington, Boston’s public schools, the Kitchen, Parsons MFADT program, RPI, and Sarah Lawrence.
Originally raised in Brooklyn, New York she has now lived half her life on the West Coast, near the Pacific Ocean, in the city of her ancestors. She is deeply grateful to work and live in the Pacific Northwest unceded traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
We invite you to join us on this 30 year retrospective of “No Words Will Ever Do,” a film by artist Pia Massie. This event celebrates the film’s screening at the The Museum of Modern Art (NYC) in 1993. Following the screening, join us for a Q&A with local artist Pia Massie on her thoughts of the film and her view exactly three decades later.
IDENTITY AND HOME is exhibition of recent documentary and experimental independent video, which questions the traditional notions of the nuclear family and the "ideal" of the home as a safe haven, is on view at The Museum of Modern Art from November 18, 1993, through January 9, 1994. IDENTITY AND HOME includes twenty-one videotapes which redefine the meaning of home to encompass a broader, unorthodox view. — MOMA 1993 Press Release
NO WORDS WILL EVER DO (FILM):
Memory and the act of seeing are the central questions in this video. Massie started making this tape about the loss of her mother, and then realized that it was really about her father and what her mother's death did to him. Using hundreds of stills taken by Massie's father, who was a well-known photographer, this work tries to understand how family and memory are held together and blown apart by images.
Winner of Best Narrative video at the 17th annual Atlanta Film/Video Festival.
DETAILS:
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023. Doors open at 7pm. FIlm begins at 7:30pm. Doors close at 9pm.
Tickets: $15 Advanced / $25 At the door
Venue: Gallery 881, 881 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Parking: Plenty of free street parking in front and across from the gallery
PIA MASSIE (BIO):
Pia Yona Massie is a multi-media artist, environmental activist, and teacher. Massie’s films and art have been exhibited in museums, festivals, and galleries throughout North America and Europe, including The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne; and the grunt gallery in Vancouver, BC. Massie's writing has appeared in: DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Art; Forêt-Frontière : Une Action Art / Nature; as well as The Bulletin, Adbusters and Ricepaper magazines. Her work has received Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants, a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and numerous other awards.
At this moment, 40 years of her work is being brought online for a special collections archive by VIVO Media Arts. She is currently collaborating with a new generation of artists on a multi-media piece called Time Travellers Testimony which brings the voices of Clayoquot Sound's 'War in the Woods' back full circle to the engaged creatives on the frontlines continuing the ongoing protection of our air, land and water.
Pia has taught and mentored for over forty years, in gratitude to her early teachers, many collaborators and friends. This includes work at community centres and universities, outdoor environmental education and film schools, kindergarten through graduate school, in three countries: Canada, the USA and Japan.
In Vancouver: the Aries program, the Cousteau school, ECUAD, Fresh Air Learning, GIFTS, Pacific Cinematheque, SFU, Vancouver public schools and VFS. In the US: Bennington, Boston’s public schools, the Kitchen, Parsons MFADT program, RPI, and Sarah Lawrence.
Originally raised in Brooklyn, New York she has now lived half her life on the West Coast, near the Pacific Ocean, in the city of her ancestors. She is deeply grateful to work and live in the Pacific Northwest unceded traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
