Tiziana La Melia

Tiziana La Melia is an artist/writer born in Palermo (IT) and raised on an orchard/garden on Syilx/Okanagan territories. Tiziana works across many media such as painting, language, collaboration, installation, film, collage and drawing. Projects fruit through an intuitive and process based methodology. In her writing and art practice Tiziana gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, and iterative shapes and symbols, which move through layers of diasporic time. Some recurring themes in her work include desire, St. Agatha, entropy, cuteness and queer ecology.

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Poetry Reading SFU English presents Rodrigo Toscano and Tiziana La Melia, who will be giving a poetry reading on Thursday, September 12th (7-9 PM) at The People’s Co-op Bookstore. This is a free event - no RSVP required.

to carve without cutting August 30 - September 28 2024. Curated by Asia Jong. The exhibition will unfold simultaneously across the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden & Public Park in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Featuring:

Qian Cheng & Chris Lloyd
Barry Doupé & Dennis Ha
Maria-Margaretta & Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (featuring Mino-Margaret Cabana Boucher Pawis Steckley)
Ellis Sam & Tiziana La Melia
Dana Qaddah & karmella benedito de barros
Amy Ching-Yan Lam & Robin Simpson
Lou Lou Sainsbury & Gabi Dao
Erin Skiffington & Landon Lim

Ellis Sam and myself will perform poetry and music at the Yin Garden on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 8pm

COUNTRY MOUSE CITY MOUSE HAMSTER at Bad Water Solo June 7, 2024 / 320 E. Churchwell Ave Knoxville, Tennessee

READ: LETTUCE LETTUCE PLEASE GO BAD
Pages: 101 / Pub. Date: May 28 2024 / Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.5"

TOWN + COUNTRY: NARRATIVES OF PROPERTY AND CAPITAL

Architects Against Housing Alienation // Rodney Graham // Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill // Karin Jones // Tiziana La Melia // Carel Moiseiwitsch // Alex Morrison // Janet Wang // Holly Ward // Tania Willard // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Kamloops Art Gallery
July 20 to September 21, 2024

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
January 10 to April 13, 2025

Curated by Caitlin Jones, Charo Neville, and Melanie O’Brian

Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital troubles the enduring narrative binary of town and country. Borders between these two terrains have always morphed and slipped around each other theoretically, politically, economically, and socially, yet the narrative of the urban/rural divide persists.

FLIP & READ: TCR ISSUE 4.2
“IT IS WHAT IT IS”
Featuring new poetry and prose by Dani Carter, Ashton Diduck, River Halen, Henry Heavyshield, Irum, Woojae Kim, Alice Notley, Gerry Shikatani, and Yoon Sook Cha; a feature conversation between Alice Notley and Deanna Fong on the energetic and healing effects of poetry; a collaborative artist project by Benjamin de Boer, SK Maston, and Ami Xherro exploring presence and trace; a conversation between Fred Wah and Jastej Luddu on multicultural discourse and archival recordings; and an image folio of artworks by Derya Akay, Jonathan Alfaro, Marvin Luvualu António, Tiziana La Melia, Elizabeth McIntosh, and Tania Willard showcasing variations on mark-making as a playful meditation on “artists, writing.”