You are warmly invited to join the virtual panel discussion\, Curating (Locally) in an Age of Uncertainty and Dissent\, to be held on Thursday\, October 8 (on Zoom) at 5pm PST.
Link to the virtual panel discussion: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69437534832?pwd=WmZwbzhZOXlaTkR1RVJHb2c5NGgrdz09
In a moment of pervasive uncertainty\, curatorial work is undergoing profound transformations\, faced with new tasks in shifting soci al and political conditions. What can curatorial work do when institutional parameters and protocols have been altered by "social distancing\,” travel restrictions\, and political dissent? How might the situation present an o pportunity to rethink and decolonize the field of contemporary art curation ?
Hosted by the Critical and Curatorial Studies program at UBC\, this panel will feature four curators —Bopha Chhay (Artspeak gallery)\, Vanessa Kwan (grunt gallery)\, Pablo do Ocampo (Western Front)\, and cheyanne turi ons (SFU Galleries).
Bopha Chhay
Bopha Chhay i s a writer and curator living and working on the unceded Territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-W aututh) First Nations. She currently holds the position of Director/Curator at Artspeak gallery\, an artist run centre located in the neighbourhoods o f Gastown and the Downtown Eastside.
Vanessa Kwan
Vanessa Kwan is an artist and curator with a focus on collaborative\, s ite-specific and community-engaged practices. She is Program Director at gr unt gallery in unceded Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories ( Vancouver\, Canada) and is also curator/ producer at Other Sights for Artis ts' Projects\, an organization that curates and produces artworks for the p ublic realm.
Pablo de Ocampo
Pablo de Ocampo i s the Exhibitions Curator at Western Front. From 2006 to 2014\, de Ocampo w as Artistic Director of the Images Festival in Toronto\, and in 2013\, serv ed as the programmer of the 59th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, History is What's Happening. He was a founding member of the collective screening seri es Cinema Project in Portland\, OR.
Cheyanne Turions
Cheyanne Turions is a curator and writer. Her work positions exhibit ions and criticism as social gestures\, linking aesthetics and politics thr ough discourse. From the farmlands of Treaty 8\, she is of settler and Indi genous ancestry. Currently\, turions is the Curator at SFU Galleries and a member of the Board of Directors at 221A.
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