Created by professor Davies, in collaboration with Hiroki Tanaka and Kohen Hammond, this exhibit is about long-term care and the people whose lives were impacted by COVID in long-term care. It is also one of the first public commemorations of lives affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven painted wooden chairs are each adorned with personal effects and mementos representing the lives of the interviewed subjects and their families. Each chair also stands in for hundreds – perhaps thousands – of Canadians who have also suffered under COVID.
The chairs also feature recordings of interviews conducted in the Fall of 2021 and tell of painful separations and devastating losses but also inspiring stories of accomplishment, bravery, and good times in lives lived.
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Read the full The Tyee article (Jan. 12, 2022).
Read the full Simon Fraser University web page (Jan. 13, 2022).
Read the full The Squamish Chief article and listen to the audio file (Jan. 27, 2022).
Read the full Surrey Now-Leader article (Mar. 30, 2022).
Read the full Kwantlen Polytechnic University web page (Mar. 30, 2022).
Read the full Times Colonist article (May 08, 2022).
Read the full Nanaimo News Bulletin article (Jul. 28 2022).
Read the full Vancouver Island Regional Library web page (Jul. 21 2022).
Read the full Pandemic Histories article (Summer 2022).
Read the full New Westminster Record article (Oct. 17, 2022).
Audio and Video Media:
Listen to the Apple Podcast COVID in the House of Old (7 episodes, January-March 2022).
Listen to CBC’s On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko program discussing “COVID in the House of Old” with Megan J. Davies (January 13, 2022).
Watch the YouTube video COVID in the House of Old: Virtual Launch and Artist Talk with Megan J. Davies (January 17, 2022).