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The AMS Hatch Art Gallery presents Germaine K oh’s new public exhibition Processes\, opening Wednesday\, Novembe r 24\, 2021 and running through January 14\, 2022. The gallery is located o n the second floor of the AMS Student Nest\, 6133 University Boulevard\, Va ncouver. Gallery hours: 12:00 to 4:00pm\, Monday to Friday (closed December 18 to January 3).
Germaine Koh is the 2021 Koerner Artist in Residen ce at the University of British Columbia. As one of the most influential co nceptual artists in Canada\, Koh is renowned for her ephemeral and concept- driven artistic production. Koh’s Processes actively explores two of her co ntinuing works\, Accord of Wood\, begun in 2013\, and Fête\, ongoing since 1997. Both works specifically look at processes of transf ormation\, accumulation\, archiving\, and administration of commonplace mat erials\, and how they change through the process of time. Accord of Woo d began as one cord of beetle-kill pine\, which will be transformed ov er time as it adapts to different administrative systems and records a grow ing understanding around both the material and Indigenous land rights. Fête displays a growing collection of the artist’s own hair\, cut and sewn into swags over the past twenty-five years. The work evokes celebrator y décor and rites of passage\, while recording the aging of a female body a nd other changes over time.
This exhibition is curated by Violetta La pinski in collaboration with fellow class members in VISA 475: Exhibition T heory and Practice and Professor Althea Thauberger\, with the support of th e AMS\, the Art History Students’ Association and Mia Chen\, the Visual Art Students’ Association\, and the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory.
Read Vio letta Lapinski's curatorial essay.
Germaine Koh is an internation ally active artist and curator based in Vancouver\, in the ancestral territ ories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Her wo rk adapts familiar objects to create situations that look at the significan ce of everyday actions and common spaces\, and which encourage connections between people\, technology\, and natural systems. She is currently working on a public art commission for the Topaz Skatepark in Victoria. Her ongoin g projects include Home Made Home\, an initiative to build and adv ocate for alternative forms of housing\, and League\, a participat ory project using play as a form of creative practice. From 2018 to 2020\, she was the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence.
< p>The Hatch Art Gallery is situated on the traditional\, ancestral\, and un ceded territory of the xwmə0–kwəy’əm (Musqueam).Contact:
Violet
ta Lapinski\, Project Curator
hatch@
ams.ubc.ca