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plastic orchid factory

Registered Name: THE PLASTIC ORCHID FACTORY SOCIETY

Business No: 800323552RR0001

plastic orchid factory

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plastic orchid factory is an artist-run company that uses the body as a site for research and expression. Created in 2008 by James Gnam and Natalie LeFebvre Gnam, plastic orchid makes, supports and advocates for divergent art works that are pluralistic in practice and in form. We prioritize inclusive approaches that blend genres and facilitate collaboration, exchange and the development of new frameworks for making and experiencing art and performance.

plastic orchid factory acknowledges the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. As artists that live, work and play on these lands, we strive to learn from, and to be allies with, Indigenous people. 

In its 15 year history, plastic orchid factory has devised over 20 original works that have been presented in galleries, theatres, studios and community halls across Turtle Island. Recent highlights include presentations at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Performance Works (Boca del Lupo), Mile Zero Dance (Edmonton), Swallow A Bicycle (Calgary) and Crimson Coast (Nanaimo); commissions for Vancouver’s Capture Festival, Facade Festival and The Belkin Gallery; residencies at Lake Studios (Berlin), LENA (Galiano Island), The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Burnaby) and Centre Q (Ottawa).

In 2017, plastic orchid created Left of Main, a shared artist-run space dedicated to the live arts, located in the former Park Lock Dim Sum Restaurant in Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown. plastic orchid aims to respond to the needs of the milieu by imagining and developing expanded platforms that move outside of traditional modes of production and dissemination.

plasticorchidfactory.ca

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2063 8TH AVE W

VANCOUVER, BC, V6J 1W4

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