Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 104

Elizabeth Zvonar

Noontime Artist Talk Elizabeth Zvonar is a Vancouver-based artist whose work embraces a variety of media—namely sculpture, installation and collage. While playful in her use of materials and juxtaposition of imagery, her work is socially engaged and aware. In her words, her work opens up “a complex layering of possibility.” Combining elements as diverse as […]

Beau Dick – AHVA Artist in Residence

Public lecture Wednesday, November 6th at 5:30pm. The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia is pleased to announce Beau Dick as the AHVA Artist in Residence, from September to December 2013.  During his residency at UBC, Dick will be working out of a studio in the Department’s […]

The Fascist Legs of Serge Lifar

Peter Wall Institute International Visiting Research Scholar: Mark Franko Serge Lifar was a dancer and choreographer who dominated the French dance scene between 1929 and 1958. Inheritor of the mantle of Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Lifar collaborated with Picasso and Cocteau. This talk explores Lifar’s relation to neoclassicism, his activities during the Occupation, and […]

R.H. Quaytman — Artist Talk

“I seek to maintain and simultaneously disrupt painting’s absolute presence.” R.H. Quaytman is an internationally exhibited artist based in New York. Recent exhibitions of her work include: Passing Through the Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, at The Renaissance Society in Chicago; “Dalet, Chapter 24,” Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Spine, Chapter 20, at the Kunsthalle […]

Reza Negarestani — Where the Concept Takes You

The concept is addressed no longer by what it is, but by where it is situated or where it subsists – from ‘what is a concept’ to ‘where is a concept’ The Department of Art History Visual Art and Theory is pleased to announce the visit of Reza Negarestani to Vancouver this March. In the […]

Rachel Haidu — Getting Past Difference: Black Audio Film Collective, James Coleman, Steve McQueen

Final JCI LEcture of 2013/2014 Rachel Haidu is currently writing about artists in three different time periods and places: Great Britain and Ireland, 1980s-present; Warsaw, 1960s-2010; and New York and Paris as two sites of performance and dance, 1960s-present. Her talk will present a methodological alternative to the art historical comparison that addresses issues of […]

Emily Wardill — and they lay them before you like reasons

You are warmly invited to attend the next DVA Lecture. By blurring truth and fiction, symbolism and reality, and rationality and emotion in her work, Wardill unlocks the hierarchical structures of knowledge and rearranges them. While her practice contains an element of analysis, she experiments with different visual or verbal structures, deliberately resisting meaning that […]

Daniel Boyd — Treasure Island

Aboriginal Australian artist Daniel Boyd presents public talk February 10, 2016 Daniel Boyd (b. 1982) is an Aboriginal Australian artist who has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since 2005. Boyd’s ancestry can be traced throughout Queensland and Northern New South Wales to the peoples of Kudjla, Eastern Kuku Yalanji, Kangulu, Jagara, Bandjalung, Kuku […]

Maria Hupfield — If You Want to Be Included You Have to Participate

Wasauksing artist Maria Hupfield presents public talk March 2, 2016 Maria Hupfield’s public talk, If You Want to Be Included You Have to Participate, is about rising above through the act of doing and through embodied knowledge. Topics include the politics of recognition, cultural revitalization, native feminism, social activism, the act of refusal, and positioning […]

Tony Labat — It’s All a Blur

Join us for the last Distinguished Visiting Artist talk this term! Since the early 1980s, Cuban-born artist Tony Labat has developed a body of work in performance, video, sculpture, and installation dealing with the body, popular culture, identity, urban relations, politics, and the media. Labat has exhibited internationally over the past thirty years and received […]