Laiwan Laiwan is an artist, writer and educator recognized for her interdisciplinary practice based in poetics, improvisation and philosophy. Born in Zimbabwe of Chinese parents, she immigrated to Canada in 1977 to leave the war in Rhodesia. She initiated the OR Gallery (1983) and the First Vancouver Lesbian Film Festival (1988). Recipient of the Vancouver […]
Film Screening and Q & A with MFA candidate Erin Siddall Fukushima Half-Life 13 mins, colour 16mm transferred to video. Fukushima Half-Life was shot on location in Japan in 2011. It documents life around the periphery of the 20km no entry zone surrounding the nuclear disaster. The film screening will be followed by a Q […]
Join us for the first DVA Lecture of 2014-2015 Florian Pumhösl (*1971, lives in Vienna) makes paintings and films. Neither historical reference, nor appropriation, his works operate within a canon of abstract visual language, and reflect on the diverse manifestations of modernity. Florian Pumhösl will present and discuss his practice, going back from his most […]
American Indianisms: Narrative Structure as Secular Judgment in Thomas Crawford’s Progress of Civilization Presented as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series This event is free and open to the public This talk will explore the commission and placement of the pediment erected over the US Senate in 1863. Created by the US sculptor, Thomas […]
Laura Marks 
Artist’s Talk: Laiwan 
Fukushima Half-Life 
Florian Pumhösl: Works and Exhibitions 
Kirsten Pai Buick — American Indianisms