Francesca Bennett has supported artists’ practices as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations since 2003, mostly in collections, archives, appraisal, and administration.
🔮 ➰ upcoming and ongoing projects
She organizes ECHO-ECHO, a 55-square-foot project space at 1469 Venables—Confounded by Time, an exhibition in moving parts by Jonathan Middleton, is open Saturdays in September, 2–6pm, with a closing reception on Saturday, September 27, evening.
She is co-host, with Ratna Dhaliwal, of sleep and her brother death, a monthly screening series from bed, on the last Sunday of the month, on Zoom—thanks to all who attended program 17: person, place, or thing, a screening of This (2014) by Deborah Edmeades, in August.
“What is an exhibition, besides a roomful of temporary things?” will be distributed as a broadsheet for Gwenyth Chao: /stāj/ 3.0 at Fort Gallery, on view September 5–14 at Fort Langley Community Hall.
“My grandmother lived through the avant-garde,”, edited by
💾 ➰ past work and projects
In early August, with Woojae Kim and Khan Lee, she co-hosted Resonance through the haze, an evening of musical performances and readings, on Helena Gutteridge Plaza at City Hall, supported by the City of Vancouver Community Placemaking Program.
In mid-July, she was one of three readers—alongside Andrea Actis and SF Ho—celebrating the launch of The Longest Way to Eat a Melon by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross.
Last year, she was invited by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross and Kiel Torres to read for Dear Friends &, co-organized by Western Front and The Capilano Review.
In 2023, she wrote about Woojae Kim at dreams comma delta for the 2023 C New Critics Award, edited by Maandeeq Mohamed, and published in C 156.
