Diane Borsato\, Roy Caussy\, Brendan F ernandes\, Hannah Jickling\, Will Kwan
Guest curated by Shaun Dacey
Artist Talk by Brendan Fernandes: Saturday 26 June 20 10 2pm
MFA in Paper Maché event hosted by Hannah Jickling: Thursday 1 6 July 2010 6 pm
Field Work presents projects by Canadian ar tists which foster collaboration and exchange beyond studios or exhibition spaces. In search of skills\, expertise\, and conversation outside of the a rtistic field\, the artists in this exhibition venture into specific locale s developing dialogue with amateur scientists\, speech coaches\, students\, and passersby on the street. Presented though various media within the exh ibition\, each project offers traces of artists’ experiences in the field.< /p>
The exhibition will feature three new projects: Diane Borsato organiz es a series of field trips between the Vancouver Chapter of Royal Astronomi cal Society of Canada and the Vancouver Mycology Society\; Roy Caussy works with a horse to perform a meaningful action\; and Hannah Jickling offers a Vancouver installment of her MFA in Paper Machéproject. For his 2009 video performances Foe and Performing Foe\, Brendan Fernandes hired a speech coa ch to teach him to speak English with Swahili\, Indian\, and Canadian accen ts\, and practiced these intonations with a group of university students. Will Kwan’s 2004 Learning From Chinatown is a large-scale map of Chinatown in New York City based on maps he had asked people in the neighborhood to d raw.
Join us for the following public events occurring throughout the exhibition. Fernandes will discuss his two video works within the frame of his practice Saturday 26 June 2010 at 2pm. Hannah Jickling will develop an installation throughout the duration of the exhibition as part of her MFA in Paper Maché project. Her project will culminate in an evening of paper m aché workshops and conversation Thursday July 16\, 2010 at 6pm.
This exhibition is curated by Shaun Dacey\, a candidate to the Masters Degree in Critical Curatorial Studies at The University of British Columbia\, with support from the Killy Foundation\, the Morris and Helen Be lkin Art Gallery\, and the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theor y at The University of British Columbia.
Access Gallery gratefully ac knowledges the Canada Council for the Arts\, BC Arts Council\, City of Vanc ouver\, our members and volunteers. Access is a member of the Pacific Assoc iation of Artist Run Centres.
For more information\, please visit www .accessgallery.ca\, or contact:
Shaun Dacey
Guest Curator
shaun.dacey@gmail.com
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Image: F
rom Performing Foe\, Brendan Fernandes\, 2009.
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