Gong Library
Monday, July 13th - Sunday July 19th, 2026
Ocean Artworks Pavilion
1531 Johnston St
Vancouver
BC V5G 1G8
Weekdays: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Weekends: 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Accessibility Information:
Ocean Artworks is an outdoor, covered pavilion at street level, with no ramps or steps to enter. There are no bathrooms onsite. For more comprehensive accessibility information see: Ocean Artworks Accessibility Page.
The Gong Library is an immersive listening space featuring a curated collection of gongs, chimes, and other resonant instruments from around the world. Set amongst the filtered sunlight and gentle seabreeze of Ocean Artworks Pavilion, visitors are invited to enter freely and play the instruments themselves, or simply sit and rest within the custom soundscape woven through the space. The installation offers a rare opportunity to encounter these instruments directly, at your own pace.
The Gong Library will be uniquely activated on Friday, July 17th, with a special performance of Imaginal Airlines (registration required).
Open to all, the Gong Library offers an interactive experience for adults and children alike, a space for sensing, sounding, and resting.
The Exhibition is free and does not require advance registration.
Dates: Monday, July 13th - Sunday, July 19th
Weekday hours: 12:00 - 6:00pm
Weekend hours: 1:00 - 7:00pm
Gong Library has been developed by Temporary Frames Arts Society and Hypha Arts.
MAJOR PARTNER
about the artist
Raj Gill
Raj Gill makes work that treats perspective as something that can be held, shifted, and opened, and instability as raw material. His practice lives in states of energy and movement. From the immersive flights of Imaginal Airlines and the sonic worlds of the Gong Library to the Wheel of Time Gallery and virtual tours inside tear-down houses, his practice creates conditions for emergence. He draws on live sound, performance, clown, and relational aesthetics.
His work develops emergent, sonic, and embodied epistemological frameworks, exploring how we construct knowledge through non-linear, sensory, imaginal, and relational modes of knowing. Practices such as deep listening, active imagination, and improvisational play become pathways to understanding and meaning-making.