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.
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.