Nov 2 | Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery is the perfect place to bring the kids on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Guided tours and art and craft stations will keep them creatively engaged. This week children responded to the Emily Carr & Landon Mackenzie exhibition through drawings and/or paintings at a work station set up on the fourth floor.

 

 

For more information please visit:

http://www.vancouverartgallery.org/events_and_programs/children_family.html

Family Fuse Weekend will be held in the gallery this month Nov 29 – 30, 10am – 5 pm!

 

I was also able to catch a glimpse of the installation of Ai Weiwei’s work from the fourth floor of the gallery!

Unscrolled:
Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art—–Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei will be part of the upcoming exhibition Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art. This exhibition creates an exciting dialogue with the current exhibition The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors, and features work by artists Chen Shaoxiong, Yun Feiji, Liu Jianhua, Jennifer Wen Ma, MadeIn Company, Qiu Shihua, Sun Xun, Xu Bing and Zhang Enli. The exhibition means to define tradition as an evolving concept and to examine its influence on visual culture in contemporary China. 

For more information:

http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_unscrolled.html

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Sonja Ratkay | Zine Launch!

During the book Vancouver Art Book Fair, I picked up the latest zine by  Vancouver based artist, Sonja Ratkay. The zine contains Ratkay’s abstract and empathetic illustrations:

 

 

 

 

The illustrations are so beautifully minimal and abstract. An eye unfolds into a machine and dreams deject the skull, and float off into the atmosphere.

 

 

 

 

 

For more info:

sonjaratkay.com

SAW IT: THE RIZE| Malcolm Levy | Curated by Steven Tong | CSA Space | Oct 9

Oct 9

I can hear chatter grow louder as I escalate the narrow staircase that leads me above Pulpfiction Books on Main Street. A crowd has gathered in the doorway of the exhibition room and are watching projected waves of muted colour transverse a screen at the end of the room. The waves seem to induce a trancelike state of tranquility even though they are an abstract rendering of the site where the construction site for the Rize was burnt down in 2009.

Exhibition runs October 9 – November 9

CSA Space, 2422 Main Street 

See Pulpfiction Books for admission during business hours.

For more information:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/CSA-space/169719629770507

http://malcolmlevy.net/

http://csaspace.blogspot.ca/

 

Steven Tong reading exhibition text — he says check out the Rize Oct 9 – Nov 9 at CSA Space!

Double Book Launch: Janet Rogers & Chris Bose| grunt gallery | Oct 9

Image source: http://talonbooks.com/news/peace-in-duress-has-arrived

Tonight! Oct 9

Book launch at grunt gallery 7-9pm

116-350 East 2nd Ave, Vancouver

Writers Janet Rogers (Mohawk) and Chris Bose (N’laka’pamux) are releasing new poetry at the book launch this evening, where they will be reading excerpts from their books. Janet Rogers new collection of poetry is titled Peace in Duress, and she will be giving a spoken word performance at the event.

As quoted on the website (linked at the bottom of the event description):

“Poems drawing on the language of the earth and inflected with the
outspoken vocality of activism address the crises of modern land wars€“
environmental destruction, territorial disputes, and resource depletion.
This collection is confessional love, learned survival, ardent resistance,
and unique poetry that wants to be spoken (aloud). If poetry is medicine,
Peace in Duress is a cabinet full.”– Talonbooks, publisher.

Artist and writer Chris Bose is presenting a collection of non-fiction poems in his latest A Moon Made of Copper.

As quoted on the website (linked at the bottom of the event description):

“The poems were written while touring across Canada, and they capture
Bose’€™s experiences meeting people, wandering different cities, and getting
into adventures and mis-adventures. This is Bose’€™s second book since Stone
the Crow.” -Kegedonce, publisher.

Publications will be available to purchase at the event and authors will be in attendance.

http://grunt.ca/janetrogersandchrisbosepoetry/

Chris Bose reading at Two Story Cafe in Prince Albert, September 2014

Image source: http://www.paherald.sk.ca/News/Local/2014-09-17/article-3872778/Chris-Bose-kicks-off-the-Two-Story-Cafe/1

The Rize | Malcolm Levy| CSA Space, Curated by Steven Tong | Oct 9

Image source: http://malcolmlevy.net/  ( Malcolm Levy; New York (series 2) 1)

THE RIZE – Malcolm Levy

Curated by Steven Tong

Exhibition Opening October 9, 6-9pm
Exhibition runs October 9 – November 9

CSA Space, 2422 Main Street 

See Pulpfiction Books for admission during business hours.

Website description:

‘The Rize’ is a mixed media installation recanting the conversation at City Council around the topic of arson at the Kingsway and Main Street location (an investigation which is currently unsolved). The video projected is an abstract rendering of the burnt out site, filmed on site after breaking through the makeshift fencing put up after the building was burnt down. The video is intercut with effected audio of the dialogue. An informational map of the area is being created in conjunction with further exploration of recent fires in the area, and the prices of real estate in the direct geographical area of Broadway and Kingsway.

Malcolm Levy is an artist and curator based in Vancouver, Canada. His artistic practice focuses on abstract photography and video. Recent exhibitions include Gallery 295 (Vancouver), Grim Museum, Supermarkt (Berlin), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), the FCMM (Montreal) and Next Wave (Melbourne). Currently he is finishing an MA in Media Studies at the New School, and teaches digital art and installation at the Centre for Digital Media. He was the Director of the New Forms Festival 2001 – 2014.

https://www.facebook.com/events/353188274848730/

For more information:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/CSA-space/169719629770507

http://malcolmlevy.net/

http://csaspace.blogspot.ca/

CSA Space in Canadian Art Magazine: http://canadianart.ca/features/2010/03/01/csa-space-small-is-good/

OSGEMEOS | Autumn Montecristo | Vol. 07, No. 03

The current issue of Montecristo features an article on artists OSGEMEOS, who were invited by the Vancouver Biennale to paint the concrete silos on Granville Island last summer. Please see the silos on Granville Island if you haven’t done so yet, they are incredible.

http://montecristomagazine.com/

Taralee Guild | Artist Talk | Vancouver Art Gallery|Oct 7

Image source: http://van-art.com/

Tonight, Oct 7 

Taralee Guild artist talk at 7pm

Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street

Website description:

In Taralee Guild’s Nature’s Cathedral series, treed canopies from British Columbia’s rain forest become a metaphor for the sacred space and echo the euphoria of being in these surroundings.

Free to attend but space is limited. Advance registration only. manager@artrentalandsales.com or 604.662.4746 

https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/events_and_programs/lectures_talks.html

See Taralee Guild’s work at: http://van-art.com/

Vancouver Art Book Fair| A selection of publications!

What did you find at the Vancouver Art Book Fair this weekend?

If you missed it, check out the publishers featured on the VA/BF webpage:

http://2014.vancouverartbookfair.com/

SAW IT: Alternative Energies | Vancouver Electronic Ensemble at the CAG| Oct 6

October 6

In response to the Jürgen Partenheimer exhibition that is currently showing at the Contemporary Art Gallery September 12 – Novemebr 9, the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble orchestrated a concert/performance in the gallery that uses the artwork as maps for sound. The performance consisted of an electronic music station set up in both exhibition rooms, and a violinist that moved to and from the two spaces. 

One of the members of VEE explained to me during the performance that he had scanned images of Partenehimer’s work and was manipulating the colour, composition and noise of the image to produce sound. He works with a computer program to determine the level of noise being emitted from white or coloured space in the image and translates this into sound. Colour as sound is determined by a numeric value and registered into the computer program to produce a range of sounds according to colour hues. 

The sound that was produced at the event sounded like digital air waves, radars, and old machines. My imagination conjured up images of futuristic alien space crafts gliding slowly over an infinite black plane speckled with faint stars – like the Death Star in Star Wars! During the performance the art in exhibition could be experienced by both optically and audibly .

For more information:

http://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/events/vancouver-electronic-ensemble-alternative-energies/

http://newmusic.org/community-events/vee/

Please check out the New Music Festival that is on October 16-19!   http://newmusic.org/

Alternative Energies| Vancouver Electronic Ensemble| Oct 6

Image source: http://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/events/vancouver-electronic-ensemble-alternative-energies/

Alternative Energies by Vancouver Electronic Ensemble

Contemporary Art Gallery

October 6, 7pm

The Contemporary Art Gallery is hosting Alternative Energies by the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble on October 6 this week at 7pm in the gallery.

Website description:

In response to the exhibition by Jürgen Partenheimer, VEE will create a special improvised performance as part of the Vancouver New Music Festival. Players will be scattered across the gallery rooms, as sound, light and colour flow throughout the building creating an abstract sonic environment.

http://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/events/vancouver-electronic-ensemble-alternative-energies/