Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 102

Kaja Silverman — Unstoppable Development

5:30pm. First JCI lecture of the 2014-2015 academic year. In her talk, “Unstoppable Development,” Kaja Silverman will argue that photography began with the pinhole camera, which was more found than invented, morphed into the optical camera obscura, was reborn as chemical photography, and lives on in a digital form. It also moves through time, in […]

Florian Pumhösl: Works and ExhibitionsFlorian Pumhösl — Works and Exhibitions

Join us for the first DVA Lecture of 2014-2015 Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca. 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 Neither historical reference, nor appropriation, his works operate within a canon of abstract visual language, and reflect on the diverse manifestations of modernity. […]

Where did the First Emperor’s Spirit go?

Harvard Professor Eugene Wang. 5pm. Eugene Y Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. His extensive publications cover a full range of Chinese art history from the early funerary art to modern and contemporary art and cinema. He has received Guggenheim, Getty, and ACLS Ryskamp Fellowships. His book Shaping […]

Curatorial Lecture with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

The Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present a talk by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “The 14th Istanbul Biennial: On Annie Besant, thought forms, mad science, love and politics,” as part of the Curatorial Lecture Series. This lecture will explore the relationship between the 14th Istanbul Biennial titled Saltwater. A Theory of Thought Forms and 19th and […]

Ishmael’s Critique of Pictures: Representation and Anti-Representation in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick

Free Public Lecture by Bernhard Siegert, Peter Wall Institute International Visting Research Scholar Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca. In the so-called “Pictorial Chapters” of Moby-Dick, the narrator Ishmael discusses “monstrous,” “erroneous,” and “true pictures” of whales, while shifting the meaning of representation and the meaning of truth […]

Artist’s Talk on Contemporary Tibetan Art

Thursday, December 1 5:00 pm Room 102 Frederic Lasserre Building 6333 Memorial Road, UBC Contemporary Tibetan art has recently begun to receive great attention from museums and collectors worldwide. This new development marks an exciting movement within the rich, established lineage of Tibetan art history. Tenzing Rigdol is one of the leading avant-garde artists, producing […]

Sam Lewitt — Grid and Gradient

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 5:30 PM Room 102, Frederic Lasserre Building 6333 Memorial Road, UBC www.ahva.ubc.ca Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca. Sam Lewitt’s talk in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC will introduce several recent exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe, as […]

Hannah Feldman — I Take Care of History: A Tale of Two Gifts

I Take Care of History: A Tale of Two Gifts Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series [Note: this lecture was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances] Wednesday, February 8 5:30 PM Room 102 Frederic Lasserre Building 6333 Memorial Road, UBC This talk considers two collections of so-presumed avant-garde art gifted by prominent Europeans to embryonic art institutions in […]

Constanze Ruhm — Re: Rehearsals

An Artist Talk by Constanze Ruhm Wednesday, March 1, 2017 5:30 pm Room 102 Frederic Lasserre Building, UBC 6333 Memorial Road Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca. I mean you rehearse how to be someone else, and then you try to rehearse being the one who was first learning […]

Kris Paulsen — Digits to Digits: Interfacing Touch

Event is free and open to the public Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca. “Digital” technology derives its name from the Latin digitalis, meaning finger or finger’s breadth. A series of associations and transmutations incrementally led this term from its original use, which posited […]