An artist talk by Timothy Yanick Hunter
5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Room 102, Frederic Lasserre Building
6333 Memorial Road, University of British Columbia
Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca.
Versions, Electronics, Hypertexts is an unstructured discussion on interdisciplinary practice, diaspora, technological homologies, and how these connect to the interminable tensions between ownership and open-source methodologies.
Timothy Yanick Hunter (b. 1990, Toronto) uses self-led research and methodologies of bricolage and sampling to explore the experiential and aesthetic dimensions of the Black diaspora. References culled from a range of sources suggest shifting proximities, novel interactions between material and provenance. Historical photographs from museum archives meet ephemera from obscure corners of the Internet, overlaid with shards of music and spoken recordings. The resulting works are living mélanges, invested in adaptive modes of making and thinking about memory, temporality, and the unknowable facets of existence.
Presented as part of the Distinguished Visiting Artist Program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
Image: Forward Scatter, 2024
HD video
00:43 min
