Description
In late August 1973, artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer, and her lover Terry Anderson, arrived on Hornby Island in the Southern Gulf Islands of the Salish Sea, part of traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the K'ómoks First Nation. They were only there for a few days, and whilst there, Barbara took three rolls of film that would, along with other photographs of her travels, friendships, and lovers from that time, become emblematic documentation of her early artistic years.
Barbara Hammer’s photographs on Hornby Island form ecstatic impressions of an initial encounter with a place and the intuitions given to interacting with it for the first time. But who, and what lives beyond their peripheries? In this chapter of New Friend, we explore the anthropological, ecolog...
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