Land Acknowledgment
Land Acknowledgment

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Land Acknowledgment

This exhibition, and the practice it represents, emerges from multiple Indigenous territories—lands that were never ceded, and where my presence has always been temporary, conditional, and as a worker within industrial systems that have long... More

rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 1
rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 1

Installation

rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 1

cursed to proceed blessed to rot tethered and crumbling a path diverges whole or in pieces tetra creases blooming and recessing unfoldings present a sequence putrid mess the bells rattle the sound of death... More

rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2
rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2

Installation

rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2

To calibrate to rest, a Bunga Pakma beacon, a tetra stigma host, carriers of megahertz 96.3 carriers of place 50.994159. -121.413053 a pulse cycles, a hyperextended signal an impossible transmission materializes a... More

rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2 - Essay Part 2
rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2 - Essay Part 2

Essay

rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2 - Essay Part 2

This parallel project—seven antlers for the land, none for the market—acknowledges that my practice emerges from Indigenous territories where I have worked as a transient, seasonal laborer. Treeplanting operates within the industrial forestry... More

rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2 Essay Part 1
rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2 Essay Part 1

Essay

rafflesia dancing in the hallway of tetra vol. 2 Essay Part 1

My practice engages what Homi Bhabha calls the “third space” of diasporic experience—neither entirely here nor there—through material systems that traverse geographic and metaphysical distances while remaining accountable to the lands that enable... More

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Timo Cheah

Interdisciplinary

“My practice engages the “third space” of diasporic experience through material systems that traverse geographic and metaphysical distances. ”