Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 102

Wang Qingsong — Im/Perfect Bodies

All are welcome! Wang Qingsong is an internaionally known artist who studied at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and currently lives in Beijing. He produces large scale staged photographs addressing issues around the hopes, fears and desires of contemporary Chinese from migrant workers to the newly affluent middle class. His works have been included in the […]

ROBERT LINSLEY: A Failed Regionalism

This talk is a draft toward the conclusion of Linsley’s book length history of art in British Columbia. He will discuss the dialectics of regionalism in contemporary art and the failure of regional discourse in Vancouver. Linsley suggests a new critical perspective on contemporary art to explain how a valid regionalism could exist. A number […]

Ute Meta Bauer: Scripted Spaces – The Exhibition as an Architecture of Discourse

Curatorial Lecture Series 2010 – 2011 The University of British Columbia’s Critical and Curatorial Studies Program and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery present a talk by Ute Meta Bauer, Scripted Spaces – The Exhibition as an Architecture of Discourse as part of the Curatorial Lecture Series. Bauer’s interests include projects outside of institutions […]

Josephine Pryde — Miss Austen Enjoys Photography

Part of the Distinguished Visiting Artist Program Josephine Pryde is an artist who lives in London, and in Berlin where she has been Professor for Contemporary Photography at the University of the Arts since 2008. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Chisenhale Gallery, London; MD72, Berlin; Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York and Richard […]

Francesco Vezzoli — Artist Talk

All are welcome to attend this free, public talk. Question and answer period to follow. Francesco Vezzoli is an Italian artist known for his lavish video works, in particular “Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula,” and for his embroideries. His work explores melodrama, humour, and glamour, gravitating toward famous film directors, authors, fashion […]

A Talk by Robert Kleyn

Free and open to the public. Followed by a reception. The Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, University of British Columbia presents: A Talk by Robert Kleyn Robert Kleyn is an artist, architect, curator and writer born in Amsterdam and currently living and working in Vancouver. In 2011 Kleyn had a solo exhibition […]

Cheyney Thompson — Robert Macaire Presents

Cheyney Thompson is a New York-based artist whose work in painting and sculpture centers on issues of abstraction and representation. Cheyney Thompson is a New York-based artist whose work in painting and sculpture centers on issues of abstraction and representation. His work is the subject of a survey exhibition which will open at the MIT […]

Scott Lyall — TOTAL DISCLOSURE

Color is less an image than a tangled occupation for thought. Scott Lyall is a Canadian-born artist, whose practice constructs intricate dispositifs, in which various epistemological models and concrete material processes find themselves in unfamiliar proximity, producing surprising aesthetic and theoretical effects. His print-works, graphic images, and sculptural installations have been exhibited regularly in North America and Europe. Over the past […]

JEANNE RANDOLPH Freud’s Mummy Bandages: Theory as Melodrama

Performance Lecture Dr. Jeanne Randolph is the author of several books on contemporary Canadian visual arts, as well as being known as a cultural theorist and performance artist. She has explored the relevance of psychoanalytic theory to the arts, ethics, technology, advertising and consumerism, with writings on phenomena as diverse as boxing, Barbie dolls, aphids, […]

Stanya Kahn — Arms Are Overrated

Artist’s Talk by Stanya Kahn Stanya Kahn is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video, with a practice that includes performance, writing, sound design, drawing, animation and digital media. Kahn’s hybrid media practice borrows from pop vernacular, documentary tropes, improvisation, comedy and experimental film/video praxis in its re-working of signs, function and meanings in narrativity. […]