BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211101T1512Z-1635779566.6494-EO-22458-37@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260509T182718Z CREATED:20170127T023419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210529T091632Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110419 SUMMARY: Hippie Chick by Dana Claxton DESCRIPTION: On Canada Line subway system video screens April 18 to April 3 0\, 2011. TUNE IN. PUT ON YOUR LOVE BEADS. Hippie Chick by Dana Claxton lau nches April 18th on YouTube and on the Canada Line subway system video scre ens April 18 to April 30. Hippie Chick celebrates Vancouver’s history of co unter-culture using archival footage from […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

On Canada Line subway system video screen s April 18 to April 30\, 2011.

TUNE IN. PUT ON YOUR LOVE BEADS. Hippie Chick by Dana Claxton launches April 1 8th on YouTube and on the Canada Line subway system video screens April 18 to April 30. Hippie Chick celebrates Vancouver's history o f counter-culture using archival footage from the first Easter Be-In held i llegally in Stanley Park in 1967\, when a large number of hippies and suppo rters defiantly gathered and claimed public space.

The human "be-ins" were gatherings of hippies\, a vocal and growing subculture of baby boomer s rejecting the conservative values of the status quo. Hippies were seeking out new and alternative lifestyles that were anti-war and anti-establishme nt. Claxton has reworked the footage to suggest that one of the streams in the hippie movement's demand for social change was manifested through creat ive expression and collective dance. The female body is self-realized throu gh the right to dance freely.

We are ecstatic to launch 10 Se conds\, a yearlong series celebrating Vancouver 125 with this homa ge to the rebels of the Summer of Love. The be-in was the precursor to toda y's flashmob\; many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by cont emporary mainstream society. Claxton focuses on the undulating movements of a hippie chick with long flowing hair. The black/white film unearthed from the CBC archives was shot by Stan Fox.

Dana Claxton is an interdisciplinary artist creating works in film\, video\, photograph y\, installation and performance that has garnered international recognitio n. She is represented by the Winsor Gallery\, Vancouver. She is also active as a curator and she teaches Advanced Digital Arts and Performance Art at UBC. www.danaclaxton.com

10 Seconds is a commissioned series by Vancouver artists tha t will be presented on the Canada Line April 2011 to March 2012. A new work will be featured each month\, playing every 2 minutes over the commuter di gital network\, to over 100\,000 commuters per day. Prepare to be surprised \, seduced and interrupted.

Follow us on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/offonmain and Facebook http://www.f acebook.com/pageS/On-Main/200712499969520/. On April 30th at 1:30 pm jo in Canadian Art Foundation Gallery Hop for Paul Wong in conversation with C arol-Ann Ryan at the Vancouver City Centre SkyTrain Station (Granville/Geor gia).

10 Seconds is curated by Paul Wong and present ed by On Main in partnership with InTransitBC. Commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program with the support of Vancouver 125 and the part icipation of the Government of Canada.

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