Transitive and Ever
MFA Graduating Festival and Exhibition
September 10 – 26, 2026
Events at SFU School for Contemporary Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Opening: Audain Gallery, September 9, 6 – 9 PM
…transitive and ever…everything going off at various intervals all at once humming and ill harmonizing…the larger ongoing..the cold matter…dark…and the trans of that nimbus…of that…of which…no longer of…sing…the organs gel…become waxy…slowly congeal…a thickening quickens throughout…at first patchy…then a wooden feeling…changing states and stranger codes…I was here and not here I was everywhere and slid easily out of the head and had no shape…
— Quotation from poem “Nocturne” by Peter Gizzi in Now It’s Dark, Wesleyan Press, 2020.
Alex Calcagno, Wyldie Bracewell, Liz Ellis, marcela oñate-trules, Chris Outten, Taha Saraei, Jaeden Walton, Boyu Xu, Mohammadreza (Momo) Akrami
Transitive and Ever shares the graduating projects of the 2026 MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts cohort at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. Expressed through a variety of forms, media and methodologies converging through a collection of work, Transitive and Ever invites visitors to move through each piece, to find themselves between the intervals of everything going off all at once.
Through a collection of visual art, sound, moving image, and performance, Transitive and Ever explores students’ research through ritualistic encounters with their surroundings. The works toy with memory and perception, obscurity and coherence, patterns and defiance. They draw from the notion that all things are in constant motion; they shift, they transfer, they transform. Transitive, never fixed, ever.
Performances and Installations
Wyldie Bracewell: Two things in the world seem to be only once
September 9 – 11 | All day
Room 4210
Alex Calcagno: (G)ONE-NESS: a void meditation
September 11 | 7:15 PM
Studio T
Jaeden Walton: when is my body authentic?
September 10 | 8:00 PM + September 11 | 2:00 PM & 9:00 PM
Studio D
Christopher Outten
September 9 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Audain Gallery
Taha Saraei: The Messhall
September 12 | 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Floor: B2
marcela oñate-trules: Walking with Pehuén (screening)
September 11 | 6:30 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema