Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 102

Jan Verwoert – Just how green, wet, close or far away?

Part of the Curatorial Lecture Series: “Artistic research? What research?” The University of British Columbia’s Critical and Curatorial Studies Program and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery present a talk by Jan Verwoert,Just how green, wet, close or far away? as part of the Curatorial Lecture Series: “Artistic research? What research? The history of […]

Dave Beech — ART & VALUE

The aesthetic function of public art is to codify social distinctions as natural ones Dave Beech is an artist in the collective Free (with Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan), as well as a writer and curator. He studied painting at Leicester Polytechnic and Cultural Theory the Royal College of Art, where he researched the historical […]

abbas akhavan

Noontime Artist Talk 12:30 – 2:00 PM Abbas Akhavan currently lives and works in Toronto. His practice ranges from site-specific installations to drawing, video and performance. The domestic sphere has been an ongoing area of research in Akhavan’s work. Earlier works explore the relationship between the house and the nation state and how the trauma […]

Jakob Jakobsen – Artist Talk

Self-institutionalisation can be viewed as a kind of exorcism, a kind of externalisation of this internalised control. Jakob Jakobsen is a politically engaged visual artist, educator and activist. He was part of the Copenhagen Free University from 2001 to 2007 (copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk), was co-founder of the trade union Young Artworkers (UKK) (ukk.dk) in 2002, and the […]

When I Woke Up, the Dinosaur was Still There

Noontime Artist Talk with Sasha Krieger 12:30 to 2pm. Sasha Krieger is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores issues surrounding originality and process in acts of creative production. Through the use of photography, video, collage, and sculpture, Krieger reflects on the definition and function of art, a fundamentally mysterious and potentially all-encompassing discipline. Her work […]

Thinking Contemporary Art; Curating Contemporaneity: A Talk by Terry Smith

BC Binning Memorial Lecture Series. 5 to 9pm. What are the main concerns of artists today? What are the major currents within contemporary art practice?  Which patterns occur on global scales, and how do these interconnect with local placemaking?  How has art practice changed the nature of contemporary curating?   Traditional, modern, and contemporary curatorial modes […]

Blake Rayne — A Whole New Season of Lost

“Sleep is the last ungentrified neighborhood” Blake Rayne has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Europe for the last 15 years. Since the mid-1990’s Rayne’s work has contributed to transformations in the field of art, and specifically painting, primarily through his consistent and varied approaches to putting pressure on what counts as painting. […]

Paul Chaat Smith — Ready or Not

1st of the JCI 2013/2014 Lecture Series. 5:30 pm. Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca Paul Chaat Smith writes books and curates exhibitions that focus on issues of Indian space and representation. His projects include the permanent history gallery at the National Museum of the American Indian, performance […]

Ariane Noel de Tilly

Rewind. Pause. Play: Looking Back at Videoscape, Video Art, and The Video Show AHVA Postdoctoral Research Fellow Ariane Noel de Tilly will be presenting her research on video art. Video art began with a series of acts of destructions and displacements, as for instance with a gesture made by Korean-born artist Nam June Paik in […]

Graham Harman — What Objects Can Do For The Arts

JCI Lecture Series in collaboration with CENES Ziegler Series Lecture. 5:30 PM Graham Harman is the Distinguished University Professor at the American University in Cairo, and the author of numerous books, most recently including Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy(2012) and Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism (2013). He is closely associated with Speculative Realism and […]