Sunset Table Reading
Friday August 21, 7:30-9pm, 2026
Sun Wah Centre Rooftop, 268 Keefer Street
(Select floor R in elevator. If entering through parkade, park at 7/F and then walk/roll up ramp through gate to the roof.)
Reader List:
Christian Vistan
Sidney Gordon
Asian Jong
Scott Kemp
Tiziana La Melia
Please join us for a sunset reading on the rooftop of the Sun Wah Centre. Christian Vistan will read the Sunset Table in its entirety, joined by several readers whose practices explore themes such as archives, familial history, time, weather, and phenomenology.
Re-released on the occasion of Flooding at Gallery Gachet, Sunset Table presents as an exercise in mapping distance. By calculating the sunset from the Pacific Northwest to Bataan, Philippines, Vistan creates a record of impossibility. Sunset Table transforms an instrument of calculation into an index of displacement. Rather than attempting to overcome distance, Vistan turns his attention towards it, open to the possibilities that emerge from tracing the separation.
Copies of Sunset Table will be available for purchase via cash or e-transfer.
Flooding continues at Gallery Gachet through September 4, 2026. The exhibition is curated by Troy Johnson, Gallery Gachet Curator in Residence.
Christian Vistan is an artist from Morong, Bataan, Philippines living on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ Territories, colonially known as Vancouver, British Columbia. In their practice, they gather materials and motifs from personal, familial and migrant histories, assembling hybrid and poetic forms and compositions that intersect, misidentify and relate affect, language and experience. They work across painting, poetry and collaboration, often collaborating with other artists, writers, curators, and their relatives. Recent projects include Canzone, a collaborative exhibition with Tiziana La Melia at Unit 17 in Vancouver in 2026; and Wawa Walk (2013/2025), a photographic installation that was part of Patience, a five month long rotating exhibition curated by Danica Pinteric at joys in Tkaronto, ON in 2025. From 2020-2023, they co-curated dreams comma deltawith Aubin Soonhwan Kwon, a room for artist projects and exhibitions that was located inside their family home in Ladner, BC. They hold a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and were a 2024–2025 Fellow at 221A in Vancouver.
Sidney Gordon(b. 2000, Regina, Saskatchewan) is an emulsion-based artist and cultural worker, currently based in “Vancouver” BC, Canada. They hold a BMA in Film + Screen Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Their approach to filmmaking is diaristic and observational, centering personal unconscious and metaphysical experiences. In parallel, their cameraless photographic practice focuses on ecological co-creation, relying equally on intention, chance, and response. Often guided by place, their process-oriented practice examines cycles of relational decay and regeneration between self, material, and environment. Their film and photography work has been shown both locally and internationally at recognized galleries and festivals such as The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver, BC), Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver, BC), CROSSROADS (San Fransico, CA), and Prismé Festival (Nantes, FR). Alongside their material practice, they are an active independent film programmer and cultivator. They are co-founder and curator of XINEMA: a local experimental film series and film space, and a member of Iris Film Collective and DIM Cinema Collective.
Asia Jong is an independent curator, arts facilitator, and writer from Armstrong, B.C., based in Vancouver, on unceded and traditional xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territories. She is interested in exploring the contemporary conditions of love and her practice often centers on collaboration, engaging friendship and relationship building as a framework for art and exhibition making. Her most significant curatorial project was an exhibition hosted by UNIT/PITT (2024) and presented across the two outdoor spaces of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and adjacent Public Park which commissioned eight pairs of romantically-involved artist couples to create site specific artwork based on the taoist principles of yin and yang.
Scott Kemp (b. unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations | Vancouver, BC) is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with sculpture, printed image, and video. His projects are concerned with human connection – interpersonal, biological, geological, spiritual. Central to this concern is an interest in moments where the porosity of the human body becomes visible, and where perceived separations between our selves, our neighbours, and our environments begin to blur.
Scott has shown artwork in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and DIY art spaces in Canada, America, Sweden and Germany. He has also established and run several DIY art spaces in collaboration with other artists: Avenue, Duplex Artists Society, Main Street Primetime, and people. He received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MFA from the department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. Prior to grad school he worked as a Plastics Fabricator, a Gallery Preparator and a Sign Maker. More recently he has worked as a Sessional Instructor teaching Sculpture and Extended Media.
Tiziana La Melia (b. Palermo) and raised on an orchard-garden on Syilx/Okanagan territories. In her writing, collaborations, and art practice, she gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, and iterative shapes and symbols, which move through layers of diasporic time. Recent publications include I Come From A Long Line of People Who Don’t Use Words (Archive Books, 2022/2025), Glint (Or Gallery, 2025), Lettuce Lettuce Please Go Bad (Talonbooks, 2024) and the poetry album Kletic Kink (2022). She has written poems and scripts for and with artists such as Alison Yip, Charlotte Weise, Lotus Kang, Tamara Henderson, Elif Saydam, Vanessa Disler, Nester Krüger, and Sally Späth. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Kitten Healer Litter, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris; Canzone (with Christian Vistan), Unit 17, Vancouver (both 2026); Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster, Or Gallery (2025). In July she facilitated a writing workshop (thanks to TCR) alongside Ada Smailbegovic called Arboreal Velvet, which considered the double x in texxture.
Organized by Troy Johnson, Gallery Gachet Curator in Residence.
