Platforms: We Are Here, Live is a series of temporary public art projects that presented from November 2021 until the end of October 2022.

Platforms: We Are Here, Live commissioned 23 Vancouver-based and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) artists engaged in and grappling with the issues revealed by the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Selected artworks were displayed on the following platforms:

• Billboard at Arbutus St and West 12th Avenue
• Light box at šxʷƛ̓ exən Xwtl’a7shn Plaza 
• Banners at Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 
• Glass wall at City Centre Canada Line Station 
• Transit shelter posters throughout the city
• VanLive! video screen, Robson St and Granville St
• Digital display boards throughout the city

Justin Langlois’s Dispatches is a video piece which presents a series of brief text message narratives highlighting our collective longings - for an end to the health crisis, for a return to sharing intimate and social spaces together, and for an opportunity to rebuild on more just and equitable terms. The work came from the artist’s realization during the pandemic that his connection to family and friends had largely shifted to text-based conversations, with many early morning and late-night exchanges of intimacies, support ,and care. Langlois hopes that viewers and passersby seeing the work will find themselves in the middle of conversations that echo their own experiences.