Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 104

Art History Graduate Symposium

Judith Ince, University of British Columbia, “The Vocabularly of Freedom and the Montreal Avant-Garde in 1948” Masako Watanabe, University of British Columbia,“Catfish and Gourd painted by Josetsu: an Investigation of Stylistic Properties and Their Implications” James Lovejoy, University of British Columbia, “Tlingit Shaman’s Charms: Meditation of Opposites in the Curing Context” Sally Stubbs, University of […]

Brian Jungen

Along with Michael Turner and Monika Szewczyk moderated by Scott Watson Panel Discussion with Brian Jungen. Assistance provided by the Dean of Arts Office has enabled Brian Jungen to be the Distinguished Visiting Artist in residence for February 2007 in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.  AHVA gratefully acknowledges assistance provided by […]

Wang Janwei — JCI Lecture

Part of the Joan Carlisle – Irving Lecture Series 2007-2008; Being Pacific: Place, Space, and Identity. Wang Jianwei, based in Beijing, is one of China’s best-known conceptual artists. He creates video works, from documentary-style productions to participant-observer projects to more theatrical efforts, often exploring the relationships of power within China’s changing social and economic landscape. […]

Andrea Fraser — Artist Talk

Andrea Fraser’s work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to “trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself.” It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to critique – as in […]

Hou Hanru — JCI Lecture

Part of the Joan Carlisle Irving Lecture Series ; Being Pacific – Place, Space and Identity. These lectures delve into trans-Pacific communication, collaboration, cultural negotiation, and beyond. Hou Hanru is an internationally renowned critic/curator of contemporary Chinese art and Director of Exhibitions/Public Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute. Hou was recently appointed artistic director […]

Dana Leibsohn — JCI Lecture

Part of the Joan Carlisle Irving Lecture Series – Being Pacific – Place, Space and Identity Dana Leibsohn, Assoc. Prof. of Art History and Latin American Studies at Smith College, is known for her work in the indigenous visual culture of colonial Latin America, particularly maps and modes of literacy as well as trade between […]

Alberto Pérez-Gómez

In his most recent book, Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (MIT Press, 2006), Pérez-Gómez examines points of convergence between ethics and poetics in architectural history and philosophy, and draws important

Barbara Fischer

Thinking Through Curating: Lecture on contemporary curatorial practice. In collaboration with the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, the Museum of Anthropology, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, and the Faculty of Arts, the UBC Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Barbara Fischer as part of their ongoing series of lectures […]

Julian Myers: Riot Shows

Lecture on Contemporary Curatorial Practice In collaboration with the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, the Museum of Anthropology, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, and the Faculty of Arts, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is please to announce that Julian Myers will be participating in their ongoing series of lectures on contemporary […]