SOUNDINGS: AN EXHIBITION IN FIVE PARTS
Tania Willard // Peter Morin // Maggie Groat // Olivia Whetung // Ogimaa Mikana // Garry Gottfriedson // Greg Staats // Tanya Lukin Linklater // Camille Georgeson-Usher // Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk // Aaron Leon // Sebastian De Line // Diamond Point and Jordan Point // Kite // Raven Chacon and Cristóbal Martínez
Central Gallery
April 29 to July 3, 2021
Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson
How can a score be a call and tool for decolonization?Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts features newly commissioned scores, performances, videos, sculptures, and sound by Indigenous and other artists who respond to this question. Unfolding in a sequence of five parts, the scores take the form of beadwork, videos, objects, graphic notation, historical belongings, and written instructions. During the exhibition, these scores are activated at specific moments by musicians, dancers, performers, and members of the public gradually filling the Gallery and surrounding public spaces with sound and action.
LUMINOCITY
Tania Willard // Caroline Monnet // Sky Hopinka // Marina Roy // Kirsten Leenaars // Adad Hannah // Camal Pirbhai & Camille Turner // Jessie Kobylanski // Levi Glass // Isabelle Pauwels // Jessica Karuhanga // Shirley Bruno // Yoshua Okón // Sandeep Johal // Bertille Bak
Downtown Kamloops & Riverside Park
October 23 to October 31, 2020
Curated by Zoë Chan, Guest Curator, and Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Presented every two years, this FREE, week-long, new media, art exhibition showcases video projects by local, national and international artists in unexpected public spaces throughout the downtown core of Kamloops. As an off-site Kamloops Art Gallery initiative, Luminocity embraces new creative concepts and modes of expression in the media arts field and brings recent video projects previously shown primarily in gallery settings to the outdoors.
HEXSA’AM: TO BE HERE ALWAYS
Siku Allooloo // Scott Benesiinaabandan // Darryl Dawson // Jaymyn La Vallee // Diane Roberts // Sara Siestreem // Juliana Speier // Nabidu Taylor // Kamala Todd // William Wasden Jr. // Tania Willard // Lindsey Willie
Central Gallery
October 5 to December 28, 2019
Curated by Marianne Nicolson and Althea Thauberger
In 1914, delegates of the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission met with Johnny Scow (Kwikwasuti’nuxw), Copper Johnson (Ha’xwa’mis), Dick Webber and Dick Hawkins (Dzawada’enuxw), and Alec Morgan (Gwawa’enuxw), as well as all the Kwakwaka’wakw Chiefs, to establish the land base of the Kwakwaka’wakw group of nations. A century later, in May 2018, the Dzawada’enuxw First Nation launched the first-ever BC Supreme Court case to extend Aboriginal title to the ocean, claiming that the Province does not have the authority to grant tenures to salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago. As two moments in a tangled timeline of resistance, these legal encounters bring forward the ways that cultural practices can bring new realities into being for a community experiencing ongoing social, cultural and ecological effects of colonization and globalizing economics.
GLINTS AND REFLECTIONS
Adad Hannah
Central Gallery
January 18 to March 23, 2019
Curated by Lynn Bannon and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre. Produced and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette.
Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England, and moved to Vancouver in the early 1980s. He lives and works in Vancouver and exhibits his work nationally and internationally. This exhibition brings together key works made by Hannah in the past decade that focus on his enduring interest in the photographic image in relation to personal and social histories.
KIDS THESE DAYS
Jo-Anne Balcaen // Sarah Febbraro // Kerri Flannigan // Emmanuelle Léonard // Kyla Mallett // Helen Reed // Guillaume Simoneau
Central Gallery
April 8 to July 1, 2017
Curated by Zoë Chan
In contemporary North America, youth is commonly understood as the period after childhood when young people learn life skills and explore their identities in preparation for impending adulthood, within the formative, protective structures of family and school. This view of youth, however, is a relatively recent one and stands as a distinguishing feature of modernity in the Western world. Many pervasive ideas about youth come from psychology, anthropology and sociology—fields that came to the fore in the twentieth century. Within the social sciences, young people became a category to be studied, understood and conceptualized. In the wake of such theorizing, notions of youth have become persistently linked to wildness, authenticity, freedom and idealism—seductive qualities that have been cast as both dangerous and desirable.
SUPERYOUNG
Cooper Battersby // Mark Clintberg // Emily Vey Duke // Sarah Gotowka // Emily Gove // Terrance Houle // Roselina Hung // Sarah Anne Johnson // Jenny Lin // Hazel Meyer // Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf // Walter Scott
Central Gallery
April 8 to July 1, 2017
Curated by Zoë Chan
The category of youth is not a straightforward one. Beyond its designation of the stage of life between childhood and adulthood, it encompasses a complex multifaceted “imaginary”—one that is rich in analogous associations and imagery. In its most negative light, youth is denigrated as the incarnation of debauchery and excess, but in its most positive light, youth is idealized as the embodiment of pre-socialized authenticity, unbridled potential, creativity and freedom. The celebratory virtues typically associated with youth strikingly correspond with those sought after by many artists within their own art practices.
BECOMING ANIMAL/BECOMING LANDSCAPE: FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY
Claude Breeze // Geneviève Cadieux // Emily Carr // Geoffrey Farmer // Russell FitzGerald // Lawren Harris // Donald Jarvis // Glenn Ligon // Attila Richard Lukacs // Ron Martin // Gordon Payne // Margaret Peterson // Jerry Pethick // Marina Roy // Rudolf Schwarzkogler // Jack Shadbolt // Corin Sworn // Elizabeth Vander Zaag // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun // William Woollett
Central Gallery
January 14 to March 25, 2017
Curated by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape looks at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery’s collection through the lens of today’s “post-humanist” discourse that questions the singularity and primacy of man, which has been the dominant view in the West since the Renaissance. At a time of impending catastrophe caused by the change in climate provoked by human activity, some say we now live in a geological age called the Anthropocene—the era when human activity has transformed the global climate. It is perhaps ironic that at this juncture, progressive scholars have come to question a basic assumption of the modern West, that man is the measure of all things.
SHOOTING THE SUN/SPLITTING THE PIE
Jerry Pethick
Central Gallery
July 2 to September 10, 2016
Curated by Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art, Vancouver Art Gallery
Over the course of a career that spanned almost five decades, Jerry Pethick (1935–2003) produced a complex and multifaceted body of work that is difficult to classify. For much of this time he focused on the way in which models of observation – including linear perspective and cultural memory – shape our understanding of the world and our place in it. Through an extended emphasis on an object’s entanglement with its surroundings and the viewer’s consciousness, Pethick challenged culturally determined ways of perceiving space and the related separation of observer and object that has occupied a central position in Western thought since the 18th century.
OUT OF SIGHT
Harold E. Edgerton // Eadweard Muybridge
Central Gallery
January 16 to March 19, 2016
Curated by Stephanie Rebick, Vancouver Art Gallery
Out of Sight features a selection of photographs recently acquired by the Vancouver Art Gallery by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) and Harold Edgerton (1903-1990). Both artists are celebrated for their revolutionary works that expand our understanding of time and motion and extend the capacity of human perception by making time stand still. While time can be measured and evaluated, it also has a profound subjective dimension; how the passage of time is understood and felt is the product of individual experience, making its perception fluid, malleable and subject to interpretation. Both of these artists continually mined this rich terrain – how time can be represented and perceived – by manipulating and distorting the ways in which time functions to challenge our accepted views and preconceived notions.
HOUSEWORK(S)
Pam Hall
Central Gallery
January 17 to March 14, 2015
Curated by Dr. Melinda Pinfold
Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist working across and sometimes in between the boundaries of medium and discipline. She makes visual art, constructs installations, works with language and is engaged in film, video and, most recently, performance. She works alone (inside and outside of her studios) and collaborates with others (sometimes individuals, sometimes communities). Based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, she travels extensively to pursue the creation and presentation of her work. She also teaches graduate students in the United States. Her work has been shown throughout Canada and internationally.
BEAT NATION: ART, HIP HOP AND ABORIGINAL CULTURE
Central Gallery
June 29 to September 7, 2013
Curated by Tania Willard, Vancouver Art Gallery, Kathleen Ritter
Beat Nation describes a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity to create innovative and unexpected new works—in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video—that reflect the current realities of Aboriginal peoples today.