Wednesday, October 9, 2019
5:30 p.m.
Room 102, Frederic Lasserre Building
6333 Memorial Road, University of British Columbia
ahva.ubc.ca
Stan Douglas, Koerner Artist in Residence 2019-2020, will present his recent work followed by a conversation with Professor Catherine M. Soussloff and audience Q & A.
This event is free and open to the public. Please join us for a reception following the talk.
Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles. Since 1990 his films, videos, and photographs have been seen in exhibitions internationally including four Venice Biennales, and Documentas IX, X, and XI. A survey of recent work, Stan Douglas: Mise en scène, travelled throughout Europe from 2013 until the end of 2015 and his play Helen Lawrence toured internationally until 2017. He is the 2019 Audain Prize for Visual Art recipient, was the 2016 recipient of the Hasselblad Award and since 2009 he has been a core faculty member in the Graduate Art Department of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.
Catherine M. Soussloff is Professor of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, and an Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. She has written two essays on the work of Stan Douglas, “A Proposition for Reenactment: Disco Angola by Stan Douglas,” (2017) and “To Begin with the Scrim: Helen Lawrence” (2014). Soussloff is editor of Foucault on the Arts and Letters (2016) and author of Foucault on Painting (2017), Editing the Image (2008), The Subject in Art (2006), Jewish Identity in Modern Art History (1999), and The Absolute Artist (1997).
The Koerner Artist in Residence Program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia is made possible by the generous support of the Koerner Foundation and a private BC-based foundation.
