Events at: Asian Center, UBC

Hot Paint for Cold War: Paris-New York-Montreal 1945-1964

Serge Guilbaut University of British Columbia John Koenig Artist, Seattle Lary May University of Minnesota Laurie J. Monahan University of British Columbia, Harvard Constance Norbert-Riser Université de Montréal Nan Rosenthal National Gallery, Washington D.C. Jean Baudrillard Université de Paris Benjamin H.D. Buchloh University of New York Timothy J. Clark Harvard University Thomas Crow University of […]

Threatened Identites: Self-Imagining Mexico and Canada

Herbert Adam Simon Fraser Universoty Holly Barnet-Sanchez University of British Columbia Serge Bérard University of Chicago Tom Cummins University of Chicago Olivier Debroise Mexico City Elena Feder Stanford Univeristy Tom Hill Woodland Cultural Centre Robert Linsley Emily Carr College of Art and Design Sue Melynchuk University of British Columbia Desmond Rockfort Universoty of Alberta Charlotte […]

IDENTIVERSE

Opening Reception, Sunday March 13, 4 to 8 pm. To Friday March 18, 2011. Exhibition of 3rd year painting and 4th year Art Theory students.

Manchukuo, Race, and the Japanese Resignification of Chinese Walled Cities

Japanese Art @ UBC Kari Shepherdson-Scott is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia while she finishes her dissertation “Utopia/Dystopia: Japan’s Image of the Manchurian Ideal.” Manchukuo. This paper investigates the recoding of old, […]

Representing the Fascist Body: Human Weapons and Japanese Traditional Aesthetics

Lecture by Asato Ikeda, PhD Candidate, AHVA Japanese Art @ UBC This talk examines visual representations of the Kamikaze Special Attack Forces in Japan during the Fifteen-Year War (1931-1945). The corporeal practices surrounding the Kamikaze, a group of male soldiers who “body-rammed” into enemy targets, exemplify what Klaus Theweleit has defined as one of the […]

The World of Li Xiongyi

Exhibition runs November 16 to 24, 2014 The World of Li Xiongyi Artist: Born in 1988 and now living in Beijing, the young Chinese artist Li Xiongyi is a rising star in contemporary Chinese art world. Being a kid with autism who never received any academic training in art,  Li is naturally talented in oil […]

EXISTENCE

An exhibition of the VISA 230 painting class. Opening April 20 from 5-7pm. The VISA 230-002 painting Class is having an Exhibition at the Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, UBC from April 20-23. The opening is on April 20 from 5-7pm and all are welcome. Open daily 11am to 4pm.