Projects

UNIT/PITT is pleased to present “Solar Bee Garden Tea Zen REMIX,” a site-responsive multi-media installation by Lam Wong and Peter Courtemanche from May 22 – August 15, 2026. Curated by Ali Bosley, the exhibition interfaces and grounds between U/P’s garden and gallery through ceremony, audio/visual experimentalism, land-centered practice, and relational exchange.

As long-time friends, both artists’

Navel of the Möbius ::: Experiments in Continuous Deformation 

Pairs of collaborators will enter into a ‘sonic topological space,’ whose limits, continuity and connectivity emerge and morph through the contingent interplay of the performers’ shared signals and take shape by way of attuned listening and response.  

Each person in a duo will have part of their sound

April 25th, 2026

19:00-22:30

Doors at 19:00.

An evening of poetry, sound, image, and conversation for the launch of Xiaoxuan Huang’s book all the time: poems & traces (Metatron Press, 2026.) Featuring special guests grim beverage, Mateo Paredes Heidemann, and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora.

This event is free for all to attend.

Books, cassettes, and other ephemera will be on sale. Bar

Celebrating a half-century of essential art and critical inquiry, UNIT is U is a seminal compilation of musings, mishaps, memories, and wishes from 20 writers exploring UNIT/PITT’s expansive history since its incorporation in 1975. The publication features essay-length and short-form writing contributions that contextualize the important history of this peculiar organization across the decades, and

June 10-15, 2025

UNIT/PITT2954 West 4th AveBy appointment: nelliegossen@gmail.com

We are pleased to host interdisciplinary artist Nellie Gossen in bringing their Nail Salon to UNIT/PITT this June.

Weaving together lineages of expansive fashion and beauty practice with the teachings of spiritual- and end-of-life care, Nellie uses the time-space of a manicure to hold open, one-on-one conversations about change. Changing

UNIT/PITT is pleased to partner with The Only Animal for the winter series of Slow Social Club throughout February and March, 2025, hosted in our gallery and garden spaces. Registration is free, but space is limited!Please RSVP via eventbrite Workshop dates:February 9, February 16, March 1, March 8, March 16, March 30, 1:00-4:00pmAccessibility NotesThe Only Animal’s Slow Social Club offers soft tactics to

XINEMA and UNIT/PITT are proud to present Light grows wild, a programme of experimental films presented in conjunction with the to carve without cutting exhibition, curated by Asia Jong.

This collection of works by Emma Roufs, Bram Ruiter, Daniel Robin, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Carolee Schneemann, Tiziana La Melia, Maryse Larivière, Carolynne Hew, and Sarah

Activations and Events

Free Admission

Artist Bios

Printed Matter

UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness is excited to announce the exhibition to carve without cutting, curated by Asia Jong. The exhibition will unfold simultaneously across the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden & Public Park in Vancouver’s Chinatown, from August 31 to September 28, 2024 with an opening reception

ecco landscape: The Art of Sound Mapping

Sound maps have re-emerged as a popular medium for recontextualizing and re-presenting land and ecology, blending artistic and creative practices like soundscapes and experimental aural interventions with scientific, analytical methods such as geographical data analysis. Given that the discipline is so enmeshed with technological advancement, the practice is highly

Documentation

Film Info

Fairy Clocks Workshop

Artist Bios

XINEMA x UNIT/PITT present Budding: an experimental film programme curated by Kasper Feyrer and Kara Hansen.

Sunday, July 28, 8:30pmThe Garden – UNIT/PITT 2954 West 4th Ave

This programme included moving-image portholes by BC-based, Canadian and international experimental filmmakers that have influenced Feyrer and Hansen’s individual and shared interest in queer ecological intimacies and parasitic film

A Transparency Machine event will occur on Wednesday July 24, 7:00PM, in UNIT/PITT’s gallery with poem-texts selected and projected by Scott Inniss, Jenny Penberthy, and Leah Sharzer.

The Transparency Machine Event asks a writer to select a poem-text written by someone else and to facilitate a 20-minute discussion about it. The texts selected by Scott, Jenny, and Leah will

To celebrate UNIT/PITT’s first summer in its new gallery space, we are offering a three-month summer studio residency opportunity for an individual, collaborative, or collective of artists whose work can engage with our garden space and gallery, culminating in an exhibition in October 2024.

We are now accepting expressions of interest for the residency program. The

Film Screening in the Garden at UNIT/PITT

ft. Kasper Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, Peter Lipskis, Sam Perry, and Al RazutisOrganized by XINEMASunday, April 28, 2024, 8pmTotal program time: 76.5 min

This program is a part of the 2024 Capture Photography Participating Events.

Please join us on Sunday, April 28th for 𝙉 𝘿𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚, an experimental film screening and gathering organized

Dates:

December 21, 2023: Online releaseJanuary 13, 2024: Live performance and cassette tape release at UNIT/PITT

Featuring sound works by: In The Are, goddaughter, Spiral Remix, J Ward, Tiffany Muñoz, Aila, May Flower, Olivia Valenza, Hank Bull, and Aaron Oliver.

Sound of the Sun, Volume II is here to accompany you through the darkest day of the year. Created for the Winter Solstice of 2024, this compilation