Bed Jam
- Ami Xherro
Join our current artist-in-residence Ami Xherro for an open exploration of material from her work-in-progress Bed Year. Of the work, Xherro says:
Bed Year is a multi-surface project about lying down and splaying out. Bed Year dwells in the pleasures of suspension, taking up those infoldings in the flesh where I stretches out languorously.
Using altered writing states to collapse the encyclopedic form with the diary entry, Bed Year demands overtime for the unemployed dreamer.
For this session, visitors are invited into a shared, informal reading and performance space. A bed will be installed in the middle of the Grand Luxe Hall as a gathering point, where participants are invited to speak, sing, or read from printed pages of Bed Year, which will be loosely arranged and available throughout.
About the Artist
Ami Xherro works across poetry, performance, sound, and video to examine how the self is transcribed and shared. She is the author of Drank, Recruited (Guernica Editions, 2023), which won the 2024 Nelson Ball Prize, and the chapbooks No need to know / Infinite Belowness co-written with Benjamin de Boer (Solipcyst, 2025), and The Unfinished Flame (Swimmers Group, 2017). She is a co-founder of the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective, which seeks to renegotiate relationships within and across languages and media via collaborative seminars, workshops, and performances.
Accessibility
The Grand Luxe Hall is located on the second floor of Western Front, which is accessed by a flight of 26 stairs. ASL interpretation is available upon request. Please contact us at info@westernfront.ca or +1 (604) 876 9343 to arrange. Further details about accessibility at Western Front can be found here.
Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.