OCCurrent

Do you remember that day with the frozen snakes?
and the circling turkey vultures,
their wings heavy at our backs?

And the lightness of blue
that stretched ever onward

We planted our hammocks
in the arms of the mountain
to read under the canopy of
spring trees and laughed

For what was there to worry about?
cradled as we were,
beneath that sky

After attending Okanagan College, Sacha Alfonzo V. earned a BA in Sociology from the University of British Columbia and is currently pursuing her MA in Criminology at University of Ottawa, where her SSHRC-funded research focuses on amplifying silenced voices and examining the intricate connections between creative expression and social justice. 

This image comes from her project, “Casey and Finnegan Escape Oblivion at the CBC: A Case for Rogue Archivism and Piracy,” which investigates how the lack of formal archival processes for Canada’s audio-visual cultural artefacts inadvertently encourages the proliferation of what Hito Steyerl refers to as “poor images,” lo-fi and/or pirated materials that are collected and illicitly trafficked by rogue archivists. 

She is grateful to live, work, and study on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg People.

Lungs

Luke Mortenson (aka. The Big Gooey): Visual Poem and Biography

Chronic post-secondary drop-out, Luke Mortenson (aka “The Big Gooey”) almost completed a Diploma of Arts in 2013.

He has a deep affinity for avant-garde poetry that seeks out sanity’s perimeter, as well as helping pioneer non-fungible token as a medium in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. 

His philosophy on art is simple: quantity over quality.