The University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Department of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory presents pǝןʇıʇu∩\, the annual exhibition of new work by the 2nd year Master of Fin e Arts in Visual Arts cohort in the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory at the AHVA Gallery\, in the Audain Art Centre from October 28 – November 26\, 2021.
pǝןʇıʇu∩
Russell
Gordon
Romi Kim
Hannah Möller
Ido Radon
Arti Struyanski
y
Exhibition
October 28 to November 26\, 2021
Events
All events free and open to the public
Pre-registration is required for attendance of the performance & the i nterdepartmental critiques: https://ahva.air.arts .ubc.ca/ahva-gallery-event-registration-2021-mfa-2nd-year-exhibition/
AHVA Gallery
Room 1001
Audain Art Centre
6398 Universit
y Boulevard
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AHVA Gallery hours:
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uesday to Friday\, 12–4 p.m.
Closed November 11\, pre-registration req
uired October 27\, 29 and November 5 due to special events
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Artist Bios
Russell Gordon
< span data-contrast="none">Russell Gordon lives\, works\, and studies on sto len and unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Territory. Since 2011 Gordon’s work has ex plored differences of value across cultural and economic registers through manipulations to the material of copper. His research-based practice consid ers the potential for objects and images to generate their own context in-b etween dominant systems of value. Locally he has presented work through Or Gallery\, Access Gallery\, and Cornershop Projects\; in 2019 he was feature d in an exhibition at Remai Modern in Saskatchewan.
Romi Kim
김새로미\, Romi Kim or Skim in drag\, is a queer\, genderfluid \, second-generation Korean. They identify themselves in recognizing they a re verbs rather than nouns or adjectives—constantly in action\, and in flux . They are an uninvited settler living and working on the unceded x< span data-contrast="none">ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Mu squeam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and Sel̓íl̓< /span>witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Kim explo res personal histories\, vulnerability\, and intimacy within colonial space s within their work. They are interested in transforming the power of a sto ry and privileges within language. Kim has a collaborative artistic practic e as part of the House of Rice\, an all-Asian drag house in Vancouver and a solo one.
Kim has shown works in South Korea\, in England\, and across Canada. Th
ey have performed in South Korea\, Vietnam\, online internationally\, and i
n Vancouver. Kim received a BFA in Visual Arts and Gender Studies at the Universit
y of Vi
ctoria in 2017 and they are currently studying at the University of British
Columbia as an MFA candidate.
Maiden China (performing with Romi Kim)
< p>Maiden China is an intersectional non-binary f eminist drag performance artist who disrupts identity expectations and libe rates audiences by inducing vulnerability. Maiden China’s drag explores the concep t of the “hyphen\,” liminal states of embodied being\, and incorporates elements o f classical Chinese opera\, queer theory\, resistance politics\, and intima te contact performance art. Born into the nightlife performance scene in 20 16 in so-called “Vancouver\, BC\,” Maiden holds the pageant titles of Mr/Ms Cobalt All Star\, and the Dogwood Monarchist Society’s Entertainer of the Year 20 18. In 2019 Maiden was the subject and one of the creative directors of an award-winning documentary titled Yello w Peril: Queer Destiny\, which has sc reened in over six countries\, including BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival in Leeds\, UK. They perform regularly as a member of the Hous e of Rice\, an all-Asian drag family\, as well as one of The Darlings\, a n on-binary drag performance collective.Hannah Möller
is an artist focus ed in the expanded field of painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. She de-cons tructs and re-constructs by cutting\, sewing\, digging\, filling\, suspendi ng\, and overlapping new and salvaged materials. Her work reinterprets inte ntion through the use of poetry\, fiction\, and writing to create a narrati ve. Möl ler is transfixed by the non-linear aspects of memory\, time and placement. She thinks about the
Here\,
There
and in-between.
Her work is deeply personal and can suggest a need for the viewer to engage. At the same time\ , it has the ability to repel with ephemeral barriers of painted colour and vinyl film or complex layers and burrows made up of fragile materials\, su ch as unfired clay. Whether she is painting\, drawing\, or sculpting\, Möller is c onstantly setting up limitations for herself to find a way to break them la ter on.
Hannah Möller attended the the California College of the Arts in San Francisco an d received a BFA in Painting and Drawing with high distinction. She has sho wn work in Russia\, Great Britain\, Canada\, and the United States. Current ly\, Mö ller is studying on the unceded Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh te rritories at the University of British of Columbia as an MFA candidate.
I do Radon
Overlaying considerations of the digital network on the radically inte rconnected\, interpenetrated nature of things and beings\, Ido Radon protot ypes technologies and protocols via temporal laminations of cypherfeminist speculation\, translations (the carrying across of realms)\, and deprecated tools and methods including applied material folk knowledges. These take f orms including sculptures\, writings\, sound\, digital works\, video\, and publications.
She has had solo exhibitions at Air de Paris (Paris)\, Artspeak (Van couver)\, Ditch Projects (Springfield\, OR)\, Et al. (San Francisco)\, Jupi ter Woods (London)\, Melanie Flood Projects (Portland)\, Muscle Beach (Port land)\, PANEL.LA (Joshua Tree)\, Pied-à-terre (San Francisco)\, SAND (Phoenix)\, and shown work at the Henry Art Gallery (S eattle)\, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as part of TBA\, and RONGWRONG (Amsterdam). Her most recent book\, Age of Sand (2019)\, was a cyberfeminist mystic speculative fiction.
Arti Struyanskiy
Arti Struyanskiy’s oeuvre is foc used on an intense feeling born out of constant scale comparisons between a human body-mind-perception and the ongoing processes within universe. Trap ped and overwhelmed by the seemingly endless streams of daily information a nd time limitations\, Arti is exploring potential ways of escaping a curse of dimensional claustrophobia—a fear of being forever doomed to exist in 3- dimensional space and unable to fully perceive time and history of the univ ersum. The results of these pursuits create a ground for investigating such concepts as psychological time\, desire for the “becoming\,” and the miser y of existence.
Arti Struyanskiy was born in Klimovsk and grew up in Moscow\, Russi a. He has attended Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry a nd received a BFA degree from California College of the Arts. Currently. Ar ti is residing on unceded Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh territor ies and pursuing an MFA degree at the University of British Columbia.
We ackn owledge that the creation and presentation of these bodies of work take pla ce on the traditional\, ancestral\, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musquea m) First Nation.
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