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Exhibit Dates: March 6th to May 8th, 2026

LOOT: Orienting to Matter – Ten Thieves Artist Collective Exhibition and Symposium
The Ten Thieves Artist Collective launches their inaugural exhibition and symposium LOOT:
Orienting to Matter. The exhibition is at the Langham Cultural Centre from March 07th to
May 08th, 2026. A three-day symposium opens Friday, March 13th from 6pm – 8pm with a
keynote presentation by Astrida Neimanis at the Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery.
The symposium continues on Saturday, March 14th and Sunday, March 15th at the
Langham Cultural Centre, in Kaslo, BC.

The Ten Thieves Artist Collective includes Susan Andrews Grace, Jim Holyoak, Eimear
Laffan, Hildur Jonasson, Genevieve Robertson, Maggie Shirley, Marnie Temple, Deborah
Thompson and Carol Wallace. The artists came together in January of 2023 as a reading
group to discuss post-human feminism, an inspirational imagining of classical humanism
from a feminist perspective.

Exhibition curator, Deborah Thompson, says that the exhibition opens up a conversation
about Matter in all its manifestations. Through the considered work of artists it seeks to
challenge old notions of the material world as ours for the taking and posits that Matter is
a vital participant in the generative capacity of life. The exhibition asks, How might artistic
practices lead the shift in how we understand matter? How can art tell a new story that
moves beyond the narrative of matter as inert, extractable, and endlessly available?

Keynote speaker Astrida Neimanis is a Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental
Humanities and Associate Professor at UBC Okanagan, on the unceded lands of the Syilx
people. Astrida will speak from their new book How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice
for Climate Change.The book draws on a decade-long collaboration with Australian
feminist scholar Jennifer Mae Hamilton, to propose “weathering” as an embodied
response to climate change.

The Artist-led Symposium will offer a program of panel discussions and workshops with
topics such as; Work, Wear and What Remains: Women’s labour and its afterlives, Situated
Knowledge: community practice rooted in place, and Gift or Theft : The paradoxical returns
of an artistic practice. The workshops will focus on drawing, new materials and poetry.

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