Rawlco Radio Free Admission Day
Video Still of Jin-me Yoon, Time Freed (Beyond Capture), 2025, Single channel video, 4K, 1.85, Stereo,12:39 min loop
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Enjoy free admission, hourly tours of The 2025 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts exhibition and create holiday-themed artworks in our learning centre. Help us celebrate the season and this amazing exhibition, hosted in partnership with The National Gallery of Canada and Canada Council of the Arts.
While you’re here, visit the MacKenzie Shop for a wide selection of thoughtfully curated items.
As part of Rawlco Free Day, from 2 to 5 PM, join artist Jin-me Yoon and artistic collaborators Chas Coutlee, Rosie Cece, and Jacquie Nicole as they introduce and screen their film ‘Time Freed’, created with support from The Circle Project. The Circle Project was created in 2019 by filmmaker Brenda Longfellow and restorative justice advocate Brenda Morrison, as an evolving collaboration of artists and people with lived experience of incarceration, dedicated to producing provocative art together. The film screening will be followed by a Talking Circle for those who would like to engage in meaningful conversation about art, healing, and transformation. This program is presented as a part of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts exhibition, opening at the MacKenzie on December 4, 2026.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jin-me Yoon is a Korea-born, Vancouver-based artist whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism. Since the early 1990s, she has used photography, video, and performance to situate her personal experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political, and ecological conditions. Through experimental cinematography and the performative gestures of family, friends, and community members, Yoon reconnects repressed pasts with damaged presents, creating the conditions for different futures. Staging her work in charged landscapes, Yoon finds specific points of reference across multiple geopolitical contexts. In so doing, she brings worlds together, affirming the value of difference.
Over the last three decades, Jin-me Yoon’s work has been presented internationally in hundreds of exhibitions, and she has mentored many students over the years while teaching at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. In 2018, she was elected as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada; and in 2022, she was awarded the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award.