Paul Wong1982 Inte rnational Women’s Day March
work-in-progress April 2025
44 x 58 in.
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1982 Inte
rnational Women’s Day March
work-in-progress April 2025
44 x
58 in.
inkjet print[/caption]
Paul Wong Pop-Up!
Presented as part of the AHVA Artist in Residence Program
Four days only!
Tuesday\, April 1\, 1–
4 pm
Friday\, April 4\, 12–3 pm
AHVA Gallery
Audain Art Centre\, 6398 University Boulevard\, Vanc
ouver
The Department of Art History\, Visu al Art and Theory (AHVA) and AHVA Artist in Residence\, Paul Wong invites y ou to view projects and research Wong has been working on during his time a s the 2024–2025 Artist in Residence.
This work-in-progress consists of three prints based on a series of photo graphs documenting the Video Inn collective (now known as the VIVO Media Ar ts Centre) marching in the 2nd Interna tional Women’s Day March down Georgia Street\, Vancouver\, in 1982 and photographed by Paul Wong. Wong is a co-f ounding director of Video Inn\, established in 1973 as a collective of medi a artists and activists. They also marched in the 1st International Women’s Day March in 1981 as well at many other rallies and protest gatherings.
During Wong’s residency\, he has been diving into his black and white photography from the 1970s and 1980s. Prod uced from 35mm negatives\, these and other images have never been printed b efore. Over one hundred photographs have been developed in the AHVA Darkroo m at BC Binning Studios.
Paul Wong’ s career spans over five decades in visual and media art. Wong has continuo usly pushed the boundaries of storytelling\, working outside mainstream con ventions making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes.
Parallel to his art practice is his equally prolif
ic groundbreaking curatorial exhibitions\, the producing\, facilitating\, a
nd mentoring of other local\, national\, and international artists. He has
been at the forefront of artist-run culture in Canada as a founding directo
r of Vivo Media Art Center (Satellite Video Exchange Society\, 1973)\, a me
mber of the Mainstreeters (1972)\, and the founding artistic director of On
Main (On the Cutting Edge Productions Society\, 1986). Central to his D.I.
Y. philosophy is that artists have creative freedom of expression by ensuri
ng that they have control over their own means of production\, exhibition\,
and distribution. Wong is a self-taught artist who considers himself mento
red by “community.” In 2023\, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters
from ECUAD\, Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
The Artist in Residence Program in the Department of Art History\, Vi sual Art and Theory is made possible by the generous support of an anonymou s donor. Past AHVA Artists in Residence have been Beau Dick\, Stan Douglas\ , Germaine Koh\, Marianne Nicolson\, and Diamond Point.
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional\, ancestral\, a nd unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
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