Test Kitchen

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WhiteFeather Hunter, IMARA – Interstitial Machine for Aggregate Reparative Anatomies, 2025. 3D bioprinted in vitro clitorises, tubing with blood, glassware, LED light box.

WhiteFeather Hunter

Test Kitchen is an informal, interdisciplinary public forum where SFU graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty share their work publicly with others. To encourage the discussion of ideas-in-progress, Test Kitchen’s atmosphere is intentionally relaxed. Presenters share the floor in the Gibson’s Forum with colleagues from different disciplines, so conversation can rove across research areas, encouraging synergies between varied fields of inquiry

Each season, Test Kitchen’s sessions are framed by an open-ended prompt offered by the Gibson’s curatorial team. Participants in the first chapter of Test Kitchen responded to the following question: “What, and where, are the edges in your research?” Test Kitchen 1 gathers scholars active in fields spanning the university—Archeology, Anthropology, Contemporary Art, Geography, History, Health Ethics, Interactive Arts & Technology, and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry—to share the questions and ideas that shape their current research.

Wednesdays, January 14 - February 11, 2026, 12 -1pm
Arya and Hamid Eshgi Forum
all are welcome; brown bag lunch is encouraged

Schedule of Events

January 14, 2026

WhiteFeather Hunter: Feminist Biofabrication and the Politics of Repair
School of Interactive Art and Technology, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology

January 21, 2026

Nat Begg: Urban Salvage as Play in East Vancouver
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Naomi Keenan O’Shea: “The end of their useful lives”: Gendered regimes of property on the lands of High Park
Department of Geography, Faculty of Environment

January 28, 2026

Blqees Zuhair: The Sea as a Living Archive: Memory, Storytelling and Land Relation
School for the Contemporary Arts, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology

Roxanne Panchasi: Poor Visibility: Seeing Algerian Victims of the French Bomb
Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

February 4, 2026

Cathy Ngọc Hân Trần: To be remembered: Reconnecting with ancestors through environmental DNA
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Environment

Jean-Christophe Belisle-Pipon:
Faculty of Health Science

February 11, 2026

Joanne Leow: Intertidal Archive: Sound, Art, and Text from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Vancouver
Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Jared Lim: Light, Refraction, and Density: Capturing Atomic Resolution with X-Ray Crystallography
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science

Contributors

WhiteFeather Hunter

Nat Begg

Naomi Keenan O’Shea

Blqees Zuhair

Roxanne Panchasi

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon

Cathy Ngọc Hân Trần

Joanne Leow

Jared Lim

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