Please join us on Thursday March 13th from 6–9PM for Reactivating the Archive 5, featuring a performance from poet and artist Fan Wu responding to Terence Koh’s artist’s edition A Beaver Tail. A Beaver Tail is a bronze-cast, life-sized reproduction of the iconic cold-season pastry of the same name, speaking to a nationalistic Canadian identity. Published by Art Metropole in 2008, the edition was venerated by Koh in a private performance/ritual. Please help Fan Wu get married in a nutella’d ceremony that reverses Terence Koh’s bronze cast back into dough & flesh.
Reactivating the Archive is a series of artist talks and performance lectures by artists and curators responding to works published by Art Metropole over our 50-year history. This series expands Art Metropole’s past lecture series Activating the Archive, which ran from 1989–1995.
Reactivating the Archive 5 will be launched in tandem with Queer Multiples, an exhibition featuring works from Art Metropole’s inventory spanning from 1978–2025.
Fan Wu is a crooked mothman who’s susceptible to pathetic fallacy even in this day and age. His recent projects include a drone-song durational adaptation of Zhuangzi’s fables for the Rhubarb Festival in February 2025 (with Germaine Liu, Thom Gill, Jonathan Adjemian). You can write to him always anytime at fanwu4u@gmail.com.