Events at: Frederic Lasserre, Room 102

Paul O’Neill — Exhibitions as Readymades, Attentiveness and Escape

Co-presented by the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and to elaborate: discentre for curatorial projects Monday, December 4, 2017 5:30 pm Room 102, Frederic Lasserre Building 6333 Memorial Road, University of British Columbia Through this performative lecture, Paul O’Neill reflects upon his curatorial practice, collective exhibition-making, and the public as a constructed […]

Felicity Scott — Nothing Is a Closed Circuit

Presented as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series Event is free and open to the public Focusing on Juan Downeys 1969 sculpture With Energy Beyond These Walls, Felicity Scott’s lecture will revisit the Chilean-born artist’s electronic and cybernetic works of the late 1960s and early 1970s, reading their structurally ambivalent semantic and operational logics, […]

Dylan Miner — This Land Is Always

This Land Is Always An artist talk as part of the Distinguished Visiting Artist Program This event is free and open to the public Dylan AT Miner is a Wiisaakodewinini (Métis) artist, activist, and scholar. He is currently Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, as well as Associate Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and […]

Marianne Nicolson — K’ak’akwama: The Fireweed

K’ak’akwama — The Fireweed An artist talk by Marianne Nicolson as part of the Koerner Artist in Residence Program This event is free and open to the public. Please join us for a reception following the talk. Fireweed, having a preference for disturbed soil, tends to appear and multiply after fires or logging. Its root […]

Wu Hung — The Inscribed Studio Photos as I-Portrait

The Inscribed Studio Photos as I-Portrait: Photographing a New Self in Early Twentieth-Century China Presented as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series This event is free and open to the public. Please join us for a reception following the talk. Portraiture and self-portraiture are two standard genres in visual art, including photography. A self-portrait […]

Yoshiko Shimada — Art That Makes You Uncomfortable

Art That Makes You Uncomfortable An artist talk as part of the Distinguished Visiting Artist Program This event is free and open to the public. Please join us for a reception following the talk. Artist Yoshiko Shimada is a proponent of feminist art in Japan. In this talk, Shimada presents a selection of her artworks […]

15th Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium

Please join the UBC Art History Students’ Association and the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory for the 15th Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium & UBC Undergraduate Journal of Art History and Visual Culture launch: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:00 to 8:30 PM Frederic Lasserre Building, Room 102 6333 Memorial Rd, Vancouver Shortly […]

Claire Fontaine — Claire Fontaine Works

Claire Fontaine Works An artist talk by Claire Fontaine This event is free and open to the public. Please join us for a reception following the talk. Claire Fontaine is a feminist collective artist, founded in 2004 in Paris and based in Palermo. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire […]