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CREATIVE TASTING ANNIKA WALSH AND LEE YOU SEE THROUGH AUTHENTICITY Annika Walsh is a artist who was born in , China and adopted at 11 months of age by in Canada . She works with a variety of ingredients , materials , and collaborators to form her conceptual pieces . Her practice exploration identity to participatory food performances , and everything in between . Striving to blur the lines and push the boundaries , Annika makes a habit of ing many disciplines , including sculptural installation , mance , and media . lee is a queer artist and settler who explores autobiographical foundations as relational tools , ones that may contribute to various creative expressions ANNIKA WALSH AND LEE 127

and that approach healing and acknowledgement processes . They are currently practicing on unceded , unsurrendered , territory . They persist through reflecting and working with experiences that may offer growth , learning , and sharing . They are interested in art and art histories because they are inspired to facilitate engagements within various . YOU SEE THROUGH AUTHENTICITY ( 2021 ) Artists Statement As two artists , we are both interested in using rice paper in our work to explore and share personal histories , experiences of oppression , and empowerment . Our tion aims to raise questions surrounding these specific themes and materials . Through collaboration and community focused installations , we invite viewers to confront their assumptions and , ultimately , the dominant narratives and ideologies that uphold harmful towards individuals . As a material , rice paper echoes the and malleable forms that can translate into ideas of diversity beyond stereotypical perspectives . This installation is a participatory extension of our first that took place in October 2021 . In the performance , viewers were able to see ingredients being rolled up by us and were encouraged to reflect on their impulsive responses to what they were seeing . This process of observing and visually ing mirrors the act of the automatic authenticity assessment that 128 TASTING '

occurs when viewing individuals . By bringing in different food , some , such as hair , testosterone , hoped to disrupt normative assumptions , filling the rice paper with ingredients and decisions of our own making rather than performing a prescribed form of cultural ity . This installation includes video documentation of our hands during the performance , as well as an interactive rolling station where participants are invited to roll their own authentic rolls and display them on a silver plate upon a tall plinth . The plate stacked with transparent rolls exhibits ity within a community . One or more interactive elements has been excluded from this version of the text . You can View them online here ?

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