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:20211012T1347Z-1634046462.5928-EO-22057-37@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260818T142818Z CREATED:20170118T221841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210816T192118Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090422 SUMMARY: Ménagerie\; Abbas Akhavan and Marina Roy DESCRIPTION: Exhibition from April 21st until May 10th 2009 Ménagerie Abbas Akhavan Marina Roy Residency from April 4th until April 24th 2009 Exhibiti on from April 21st until May 10th 2009 SWARM / Opening April 21st\, 6 – 9 P M Artist talk April 23rd\, 6H30 PM At DAÏMÕN’s StudiÕ and at AXENÉO7\, 80\, Hanson St.\, Gatineau. This […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Ex hibition from April 21st until May 10th 2009

Ménagerie
Abbas Ak havan
Marina Roy

Residency from April 4th until April 24th 2009< br />Exhibition from April 21st until May 10th 2009
S WARM / Opening April 21st\, 6 - 9 PM
Artist talk April 23rd\, 6H30 PM< br />At DAÏMÕN's StudiÕ and at AXENÉO7\, 80\, Hanson St.\, Gatineau.

This event is part of BC Scene / www.bcsce ne.ca

Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan will make a residency and an e xhibition at Daïmõn and AXENÉO7 and will present their individual and colla borative works.The residency of Marina Roy will be occupied with researchin g and creating new video and sound work on human-animal distinction. For Ab bas Akhavan the residency will be spent researching\, making\, and installi ng a series of work that deal with property and domesticity.  The collabora tive show is still in the making - the work will most likely be an installa tion contingent on the site and will deal with our shared interest and rese arch into domesticity and nature.

MARINA ROY
Mu ch of the current work of Marina Roy has reflected on human-animal distinct ions as it relates to art and psychoanalysis. Human “progress\,” culminatin g at the mid-19th century (up to the present)\, has meant that the animal b ecomes progressively “spectral\,” to the point of extinction\, the post-ani mal condition. How have we distinguished ourselves from the animal world si nce we crossed the great divide during the Paleolithic era\, and why has it resulted in conquest\, destruction\, and separation from “nature” rather t han adapting “better” ways of living within it? Through art and technology\ , humans have perpetuated themselves into an “immortal” sphere via mimesis\ , representation\, and mechanical/digital reproduction. In our establishmen t of a system of taboos and transgressions (laws regulating violence and se xuality)\, rationalizing our drives and repressing libido\, creating simula cral worlds in the realm of the phantasmatic or otherwise\, humans have som ehow convinced themselves of the necessity to dominate all spheres of life\ , and in so doing\, conquer death.

Marina Roy is a Vancouver based ar tist working across a variety of media\, including drawing\, painting\, scu lpture\, animation\, video-performance and writing. Roy has exhibited work across Canada\, as well as in Europe and the U.S. She is assistant professo r of visual arts at the Department of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory \, UBC since 2002. The ideas investigated in her artwork and writing stem f rom her ongoing research in such areas as psychoanalysis\, gender\, animal studies\, and biopolitics. In 2001 she published the book sign after the x ______ \, published by Arsenal Pulp Press and Artspeak.

ABBAS AKHAVAN
During the past few years the majority of the work a nd research of Abbas Akhavan has been dealing with the domestic sphere and how it can act as a microcosm of the greater society and/or nation. He is i nterested in how the family\, especially the war stricken ones\, can learn to re-enact the violence and traumas of nationalism and war within the wall s of the house. This re-enactment of abuse inverts the house or ‘hos’\, whi ch is the root for host\, hostel\, hospital and hospitable into a house or ‘hos’ that is closer to hostile\, hostility\, and hostage (1)  – a systemic violence that is inherited from the nation state and practiced within the family lineage - parents against parents\, parents against children\, child ren against children\, children against pets...and so on..
1-Scarry\, Elaine.  The Body In Pain. Oxford\; New York\; Toronto: Oxford University P ress\, 1985.

Born in Tehran\, Iran\, Abbas Akhavan has been living in Canada for since 1991. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University and received his Masters of Fine Arts in 2006 at the University of British Columbia. His artistic practice covers a variety of mediums inc luding drawing\, sculpture/installation\, video\, performance\, and site-sp ecific ephemeral works. His latest visual works are informed by food and co nviviality. In recent projects he has taken to feeding his audiences cannib al cakes\, insulating gallery walls with cotton candy\, painting with Ketch up\, and drinking large quantities of Gin. He currently resides in Vancouve r B.C.\, and teaches at Emily Carr University and at the University of Brit ish Columbia.  His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.< /p>

DAÏMÕN and AXENÉO7 thank its members\, the Conseil des arts et de s lettres du Québec\, the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Service des art s\, de la culture et des lettres de la Ville de Gatineau\, BC Scene and VIV O Media Arts Centre.

Information:
Marie-Hélène Leblanc\ , artistic director

DAÏMÕN\, media art and photography
78\, Hanson St. (Hull area)
Gatineau (Quebec) J8Y 3M5
info@daimon.qc.ca
819.77 0.8525 ext. 302
www.daimon .qc.ca
www.axeneo7.qc .ca

 

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