Janua ry 23\, 2010 - September 12\, 2010
Curated by Karen Duffek\, MOA Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts. Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cul tural Olympiad.
Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures is an exhibitio n of international contemporary art that will inaugurate MOA’s Audain Galle ry on January 23\, 2010. It brings together the work of twelve artists enga ged in a dialogue about cultural boundaries –within and between communities \, art practices\, audiences\, or institutions – and the possibility of tra nslation across them.
Through a surprising diversity of media and app roaches\, the artists selected for this show use the idea of a border space to raise questions about migration and identity\, knowledge protection and access\, and the permeability and construction of boundaries cross-cultura lly. Borders are considered not only as lines or markers that divide cultur es\, but also as uncertain spaces that are sites of encounter and transform ation.
Participating artists include Hayati Mokhtar\, Dain-Iskandar S aid\, John Wynne\, Edward Poitras\, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan\, Tania Mouraud\, Marianne Nicolson\, Gu Xiong\, Prabakar Visvanat h\, Rosanna Raymond\, Ron Yunkaporta\, and Laura Wee Láy Láq\, please visit www.moa.ubc.ca/blog.
Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures\, which will be on exhibit through Septembe r 12\, 2010\, is part of MOA’s commitment to exploring\, developing\, and i nviting new ways of representing understandings about culture in the 21st c entury. Join us for a special Exhibition Reception at 7:00 pm on January 26 \, at which two of the exhibiting artists\, Tania Mouraud and Rosanna Raymo nd\, will present performance pieces. Other artists will also be in attenda nce.
To give you inside access to the ideas behind the exhibit\, an i nteractive online magazine\, www.Borde rZones.ca\, is being created. You can visit the site now\, while it’s u nder construction\, but when it officially launches on January 26\, 2010\, you’ll discover personal and thought-provoking articles on each of the arti sts by distinguished contributors such as award-winning journalist Jan Wong \, educator and activist Gerald Taiaiake Alfred\, and filmmaker and artist Loretta Todd\, among others.
You’ll be able to email your comments an d questions to the site\, some of which will be addressed by the contributo rs. You’ll also find video interviews with the artists\, regular updates on artist files\, artwork exclusive to the webzine\, provocative reviews of t he exhibition\, and a blog devoted to the idea of borders.
Over the c ourse of the exhibition\, BorderZones.ca will become an archive about the i dea of borders\, particularly how new spaces of thought and meaning are cre ated and contested at the boundaries of knowledge\, language\, art\, cultur e\, and politics.
Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures is presented
with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Additional sponsors: The Vancouver F
oundation\, The Canada Council\, Consulat Général de France à Vancouver\, A
udrey Hawthorn Fund for Publications in Museum Anthropology\, and Alican Mo
uld & Plastics.
http://www.borderzones.ca/