Tree Permit TP-2016-00332

Applicant: John Ross, Application Date: Apr 14, 2016, City of Vancouver. Legal Description: 026-604-124-12 & 15 EXC. OLD COURTHOUSE & SITE INCLUDE VOLUMETRIC PCLS COLOURED CREEN EX PLAN 12829 BLK.

  • Kika Thorne
Still from mvi_3652.mov April 19, 2016, 5:20:54 PST, 2018. Digital images, dimensions variable. Courtesy Cedrus Atlantica.
Still from mvi_3689.mov April 19, 2016, 5:44:07 PST, 2018. Digital images, dimensions variable. Courtesy Cedrus Atlantica.



A settler living in Tkaronto, Kika Thorne oscillates between action and abstraction. Kika Thorne, artist, filmmaker, and curator, was a co-founder of she/TV; participated in and documented the sculptural protests of the Toronto-based October, February and April Groups; helped found the Anarchist Free Space & Free School in Toronto's Kensington Market; and, in her role as curator for VIVO Media Arts Centre, helped instigate SAFE ASSEMBLY, a fourteen-day collective program and gathering to express dissent against the effects of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Thorne has exhibited extensively, including projects at e-flux, Kino Arsenal, and Forum Expanded, Berlin; Murray Guy, New York; The Apartment, Access, Contemporary Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Pleasure Dome and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto. Her room-sized tensile sculptures were the focus of The WILDcraft, a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor. She received her MFA from the University of Victoria, and she is currently working towards a PhD in Studio Practice at York University, Toronto.

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