Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 102

28th Art History Graduate Symposium – “Material Affinities: Intersections that Matter” Day 1

The 28th Annual UBC Art History Graduate Student Symposium starts today Opening Reception February 7th, 5:30pm The theme of this year’s conference investigates the notion of materiality as a methodological approach to artistic and cultural production. Materiality is a theoretically and philosophically embedded concept which can describe the substance or quality of a ‘thing’ and […]

28th Art History Graduate Symposium – “Material Affinities: Intersections that Matter” Day 2

Date: February 08, 2009 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Room 102 – 6333 Memorial Blvd. Lasserre building The 28th Annual UBC Art History Graduate Symposium continues … February 8 Sunday Keynote 11:00 – 12:00pm Dr. Jeffrey Derksen SFU, English Department “Yesterday’s Euphorias: The Temporality of Cultural Critique” Lunch 12:15 – 1:00pm Agency: Daily Experience, Repetition Chair: […]

A Celebration of Kabir (Day 1)

Come together this March to celebrate the poet-saint Kabir, who sang of the ultimate and challenged the people of his time-and us today-to rethink the religious and other boundaries that bind us. The celebration features a performance of Kabir singers, led by Dalit folk artist Prahlad Tipanya; a series of four documentary films entitled Journeys […]

Panel Discussion: Bob Nickas, Alan Belcher and Jennifer Bolande, moderated by Gil Blank

Part of the Belkin Art Gallery’s ongoing series of lectures on contemporary curatorial practice. In collaboration with Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), 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 pleased to announce […]

CAROLYN CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV: Notes towards documenta (13)

  A curator and writer, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (b. Ridgewood, NJ, 1957) is the Artistic Director of documenta (13), 2012. She has been Chief Curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea since 2002, and is Interim Director for 2009. The author of publications including Arte Povera (London: Phaidon Press, 1999), she was Senior Curator at […]

MARINA ROY: Close up

  Thoughts on Translation Marina Roy will screen a new video work, The Legende of Saint Julian (33 minutes). The screening will be followed by thoughts related to the process of translation central to the production of the video itself: from audio/textual to video, from French to English, as well as in terms of narrative […]

Ian Wallace — The Modernity Thesis and the Crisis in Representation

Ian Wallace is a Vancouver-based artist and art historian. A recent recipient of the Molson Prize, he is known throughout the world for his critical reflections and contributions as and pioneer in photo-conceptual art. A graduate of the University of British Columbia, Wallace has served as a mentor and teacher to several generations of artists at UBC and at the […]

Maria Eichhorn — Artist Talk

Lectures are free and open to the public. Maria Eichhorn will present on works like the “Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices”, “Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft”, her new book The Artist’s C o n t r a c t , the journal C a m p u s , her exhibitions “The Politics of Restitution”, “Prohibited Imports” […]