{"id":13,"date":"2025-10-06T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extra-ordinari.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:42:20","slug":"terra-poirier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extra-ordinari.com\/en\/terra-poirier\/","title":{"rendered":"Terra-Poirier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_bg_m.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span uk-icon=\"icon: arrow-up; ratio: 1.5\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Installation view of <b>Sessional Office: Proposal for a New Arrangement<\/b> by Terra Poirier. From the book, <i>Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design<\/i>, by Terra Poirier in collaboration with 26 instructors, students, and other artists, 2018.\n<\/div>\n<div><a class=\"uk-button uk-button-primary uk-button-small\" href=\"#img-1\" uk-toggle>ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"img-1\" class=\"uk-modal\" uk-modal>\n<div class=\"uk-modal-dialog uk-modal-body\">\n        <button class=\"uk-modal-close-outside\" type=\"button\" uk-close><\/button><br \/>\n       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/extra-ordinari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_01.jpg\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Terra Poirier is a Vancouver-based artist working with photography, artist books, print media, and installation to explore place, memory, labour, and erasure. Rooted in her experiences of itinerancy and poverty, her practice employs unstable forms such as long-exposure pinhole photography, phototransfer, and fragmented text to consider how memory and place are continually rewritten, and how what is overlooked can be resurfaced.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_elizabeth.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_elizabeth<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><span uk-icon=\"icon: arrow-up; ratio: 1.5\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Elizabeth MacKenzie, Sessional Instructor, 210 seconds<\/b> Long exposure pinhole portrait by Terra Poirier. From the book, <i>Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design<\/i>, by Terra Poirier in collaboration with 26 instructors, students, and other artists, 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_alex.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_alex<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><span uk-icon=\"icon: arrow-up; ratio: 1.5\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Alex Hass, Sessional Instructor, 30 seconds<\/b> Long exposure pinhole portrait by Terra Poirier. From the book, <i>Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design<\/i>, by Terra Poirier in collaboration with 26 instructors, students, and other artists, 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Poirier\u2019s projects weave personal history with broader concerns of precarity, community, and solidarity. Her book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nonregular.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design<\/i><\/a> (UNIT\/PITT, 2018), created with 26 instructors, critiqued invisibilized contract teaching and has been presented in exhibitions, classrooms, and research contexts.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span uk-icon=\"icon: arrow-up; ratio: 1.5\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>As Though We Were Banished<\/b> by Terra Poirier. From the book, <i>Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design<\/i>, by Terra Poirier in collaboration with 26 instructors, students, and other artists, 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a class=\"uk-button uk-button-primary uk-button-small\" href=\"#img-2\" uk-toggle>ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"img-2\" class=\"uk-modal\" uk-modal>\n<div class=\"uk-modal-dialog uk-modal-body\">\n        <button class=\"uk-modal-close-outside\" type=\"button\" uk-close><\/button><br \/>\n       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/extra-ordinari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_02.jpg\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Poirier\u2019s 2026 residency at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona, unfortunately<br \/>\ncancelled, was meant to feature a public talk on Non-Regular, followed by collaborative activities with local artists and arts workers to explore how mentorship and mutual aid can sustainably support creative practices. Her workshop project involved inviting community members to sit for long-exposure pinhole portraits, a relational modality that inscribes a shared presence between photographer and participant within an economy of scarcity that makes it difficult to find time for others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/terrapoirier.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">terrapoirier.ca<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/t.pois\" target=\"_blank\">@t.pois<\/a> \/ <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nonregular.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">nonregular.ca<\/a> \/ <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/non.regular\/\" target=\"_blank\">@non.regular<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!-- {\"type\":\"layout\",\"children\":[{\"type\":\"section\",\"props\":{\"class\":\"uk-visible@s\",\"header_transparent\":true,\"height\":\"pixels\",\"height_viewport\":700,\"image\":\"wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_bg.jpg\",\"image_loading\":true,\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"image_size\":\"cover\",\"padding_bottom\":\"xsmall\",\"padding_top\":\"xsmall\",\"sticky\":\"cover\",\"style\":\"secondary\",\"title_breakpoint\":\"xl\",\"title_position\":\"top-left\",\"title_rotation\":\"left\",\"vertical_align\":\"bottom\",\"width\":\"default\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"row\",\"children\":[{\"type\":\"column\",\"props\":{\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"position_sticky_breakpoint\":\"m\"}}]}]},{\"type\":\"section\",\"props\":{\"class\":\"uk-hidden@s\",\"header_transparent\":false,\"image\":\"wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_bg.jpg\",\"image_loading\":true,\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"image_size\":\"cover\",\"padding_bottom\":\"none\",\"padding_top\":\"none\",\"sticky\":\"cover\",\"style\":\"secondary\",\"title_breakpoint\":\"xl\",\"title_position\":\"top-left\",\"title_rotation\":\"left\",\"vertical_align\":\"bottom\",\"width\":\"\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"row\",\"children\":[{\"type\":\"column\",\"props\":{\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"position_sticky_breakpoint\":\"m\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"image\",\"props\":{\"image\":\"wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra_ordinari_terra_poirier_bg_m.jpg\",\"image_svg_color\":\"emphasis\",\"margin_bottom\":\"default\",\"margin_top\":\"default\"}}]}]}]},{\"type\":\"section\",\"props\":{\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"style\":\"default\",\"title_breakpoint\":\"xl\",\"title_position\":\"top-left\",\"title_rotation\":\"left\",\"vertical_align\":\"middle\",\"width\":\"default\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"row\",\"props\":{\"column_gap\":\"large\",\"layout\":\"1-3,2-3\",\"row_gap\":\"large\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"column\",\"props\":{\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"position_sticky_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"width_medium\":\"1-3\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<p><span uk-icon=\\\"icon: arrow-up; ratio: 1.5\\\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\\nInstallation view of <b>Sessional Office: Proposal for a New Arrangement<\/b> by Terra Poirier. 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