Podcasts about Vancouver Art Gallery

Paul Adams is the executive director of the B.C. Rural Health Network. Jennifer Kim is the owner of Nooroongji Books. Sirish Rao is an artist, writer, and an interim co-CEO of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Will Translink's trucking standards be enough to prevent overpass strikes?GUEST: Dave Earle, President and CEO at BC Trucking Association Could the new Vancouver Art Gallery be home to a wider performance arts complex?GUEST: Suzanne Anton, Former Attorney General for BC and former Vancouver City Councillor The Wrap - Would Americans offering significant discounts be enough for you to visit the U.S & If you had an audience with the new Pope, what would you say to him? GUEST: Sarah Daniels, real estate agent in South Surrey; author and broadcaster GUEST:  Leah Holiove, TV Reporter and Radio Host Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

*Audio of pro-Palestine demonstration at the Vancouver Art Gallery on March 18, 2025* The Freedom of peaceful assembly – or, in other words, to protest – and the freedom of association are among the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  Protest has been a vital aspect of Canada's democracy and social fabric since the country's formation, playing a key role in advancing Indigenous rights, environmental causes, 2SLGBTQ+ and feminist issues, and labour rights.  This past week alone, people in various cities across the country came together to protest against the threats to Canadian sovereignty made by US President Donald Trump.  And sure, we might not all agree with every protest which happens in our cities and communities (the Freedom Convoy of 2022 comes to mind). But as stated in our Charter, as long as the protests do not include hate speech, become violent, incite violence, or pose a danger to public safety, we have decided – as a country – that the right to protest is more important than agreeing with every protest that is organized.  It is crucial that we are able to express our opinions, criticize our governments and institutions, and participate in public discourse.  Which is why the City of Toronto's recent survey and proposed bylaw about demonstrations near vulnerable institutions is sounding some alarm bells.  This week on rabble radio, Jack Layton Journalism for Change fellow Ashleigh-Rae Thomas sits down with Samira Mohyeddin to talk about what this bylaw is and why it is being considered, why the right to protest is so important, and the “Palestine exception.”  About our guest  Samira Mohyeddin is an award winning journalist and producer. For nearly ten years she was a producer and host at CBC Radio and CBC Podcasts. She resigned in November of 2023 and founded On The Line Media. Samira has a Master of Arts in Modern Middle Eastern History and Gender from the University of Toronto and Genocide Studies from the Zoryan Institute. She is currently working on a documentary about the People's Circle for Palestine student encampment at the University of Toronto. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca. *Audio courtesy of Jase Tanner. 

B.C government axes the carbon tax on April 1st GUEST: Brenda Bailey, B.C's Minister of Finance Point Roberts business forced to close after being ‘destroyed' by U.S trade war GUEST: Beth Calder, co-owner of Point To Point Parcel in Point Roberts Vancouver Art Gallery parts ways with CEO Anthony Kiendl GUEST: Bob Rennie, art collector Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Vancouver Art Gallery Association has announced CEO & Executive Director Anthony Kiendl is leaving the Gallery to pursue other professional and personal interests. Checking in with Richard Zussman on day 4 of Federal Election campaigning! Used Teslas are piling up on the resale market. What do you need to know if you are brave enough to buy one?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could Canada benefit from the chaos in America's scientific community? Guest: Senator Stanley Kutcher, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University and an Independent Senator for Nova Scotia The hidden history of the life we breathe? Guest Carl Zimmer, Author of “Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe” How have spiders adapted to urban noise? Guest: Dr. Brandi Pessman, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Lead Author of the Study Will the Hudson's Bay building become the Vancouver Art Gallery? Guest: Mike Klassen, ABC Vancouver City Councillor How complex is the cross-border drug trade? Guest: Yvon Dandurand, Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the University of the Fraser Valley CSIS alleges India interfered with the 2022 leadership bid Guest: Dan Stanton, Director of the National Security Program at the University of Ottawa and Former Executive Director of CSIS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will the Hudson's Bay building become the Vancouver Art Gallery? Guest: Mike Klassen, ABC Vancouver City Councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode No. 691 features artists Kota Ezawa and Amy Pleasant.  The Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture is presenting "Kota Ezawa: Here and There - Now and Then," an investigation into the creation of memory in the Bay Area and nationally, through March 9. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, features Ezawa and Julian Brave NoiseCat's Alcatraz Is an Idea (2024), and Merzbau 1, 2, 3 (2021), and Ursonate (2022), which were among 11 Ezawas recently acquired by SFMOMA. "Ezawa" was curated by Frank Smigiel. Fort Mason will publish a catalogue on the closing weekend. SFMOMA is showing Ezawa's National Anthem (2018) in "Count Me In"  through April 27. Ezawa's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at many museums, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; and the Saint Louis Art Museum. His work is in the collection most major US art museums, and in museums in seven other countries.  Pleasant is included in "Synchronicities: Intersecting Figuration with Abstraction" at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha. The exhibition examines some of the ways in which nine artists have recently navigated the space between abstraction and figuration. "Synchronicities" was curated by Rachel Adams, and is on view through May 4. Pleasant's work is also on view at The Carnegie, Covington, KY in "Southern Democratic" through February 15, and in "Vivid: A Fresh Take" at the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN through June 1.  Pleasant has been included in exhibitions at the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Montgomery (Ala.) Museum of Fine Arts, the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and more.  Instagram: Amy Pleasant, Tyler Green.

GUEST: Anthony Kiendl, CEO and Executive Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

B.C government replaces entire Victoria School Board with a newly appointed trustee GUEST: Lisa Beare, B.C's Minister of Education The 3% Challenge: Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's new campaign to boost the economy GUEST: Bridgitte Anderson, President/CEO Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Will Trump's plans for deregulation leave Canada in the dust? GUEST: Jerome Gessaroli, senior fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute, and leads the Sound Economic Policy Project at BCIT Why the Vancouver Art Gallery is going smaller with new building plans GUEST: Anthony Kiendl [Kendall], CEO and Executive Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery Surrey joins Border Mayors Alliance to stand against Trump's tariffs GUESTS: Brenda Locke, Mayor of Surrey & Drew Dilkens, Mayor of Windsor, Ontario Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Bob Rennie, art collector and founder and executive director of Rennie, a Vancouver based real estate marketing firm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The rise of birth tourism in Canada GUEST: Andrew Griffith, Former Director General at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada B.C government assembles new committee to face-off against Trump's tariffs GUEST: Moe Sihota, former B.C NDP Cabinet Minister Designing to budget? Vancouver Art Gallery aims for a smaller build in new location GUEST: Bob Rennie, art collector and founder and executive director of Rennie, a Vancouver based real estate marketing firm Trump bump: Are more Americans in Canada renouncing their U.S citizenship? GUEST: Douglas Cowgill, Surrey-based lawyer with Cross Border Visas, and former dual citizen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Phil meets with senior curator Richard Hill from the Vancouver Art Gallery to discuss a moody and mysterious work by the matriarch of Canadian art... Support the show

GUEST: Bob Rennie, art collector, founder, and executive director of Rennie, a Vancouver-based real estate marketing firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mohawk artist Shelley Niro was inspired to professionally pursue art after seeing prints of Norval Morrisseau's work on the wall at her dentist's office. Now, she has two prestigious Canadian contemporary art awards under her belt (the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts and the Scotiabank Photography Award) and she's celebrating her first major career retrospective, “500 Year Itch,” at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Shelley joins Tom Power to talk about the show, how her work uses pop culture and satire to puncture stereotypes about Indigenous people, and how she developed her unique sense of humour.

Show notes below:   Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2024 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   Links: https://vanessakwan.com/ About Vanessa: Vanessa Kwan is an artist, producer, and curator with a focus on collaborative, site-specific and cross-disciplinary practices. They are currently Director + Curator, Gallery and Exhibitions at Emily Carr University on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver, Canada). They have worked in artistic leadership roles since 2003, contributing to organizations such as grunt gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Other Sights for Artists' Projects, Access Gallery, Powell Street Festival and Out On Screen. They regularly write, speak and publish on art and culture, and since 2017 have been producing residency projects across the Pacific Rim (Vancouver, Seoul, Melbourne and Sydney) exploring artist-led creative exchange. In addition they have produced significant public art works including Geyser for Hillcrest Park (with Erica Stocking), Speaker A, a permanent sound installation co-created with Theatre Replacement (Maiko Yamamoto and James Long) and Curtains, an upcoming collaborative performance work.   About Tara:   Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists including; Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca De Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, Vertigo Theatre (Calgary).  With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can't remember the word for I can't remember, Body Parts, Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally.  Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Recent works include a collaboration with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, empty.swimming.pool, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria and Vancouver), ensemble creation, how to be,  which premiered at The Cultch, and her solo I can't remember the word for I can't remember, toured widely, and her newest solo Body Parts has been made into a stunning film which is currently touring virtually. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their child.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Hank Bull, an artist and curator whose administration and advocacy work has greatly contributed to artist-run culture in Canada. Hank discusses his work with the Western Front and Centre A, and he also brought along some props to give us a taste of what his past radio art sounded like! Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/254-hank-bull.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/254-hank-bull.html Resources: Hank Bull: https://hankbull.ca/ The HP Show: https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/works/vae2da Western Front: https://westernfront.ca/ Centre A: https://centrea.org/ Vancouver Art Gallery: https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/ Bio: Hank Bull was born in 1949 in Moh'kins'tsis/Calgary and grew up in Toronto and small towns in southern Ontario. He became interested in art and music at an early age, mentored by a librarian, Graham Barnett, and encouraged by high school instructors Paavo Airola and David Blackwood. After travels in Europe in 1968, he studied drawing and photography in Toronto under Robert Markle and Nobuo Kuobota. In 1973, he moved to xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)/Vancouver to join the newly formed artist-run centre Western Front. In this interdisciplinary setting, he was exposed to mail art, poetry, ceramics, improvised music and video. He produced a weekly radio broadcast, cabaret performances, shadow theatre and telecommunications projects. During the 1980s he travelled in Asia, Africa and Europe, organized international exchanges and helped to develop a Canadian network of artist-run centres. He has worked in collaboration with a wide range of artists, including Kate Craig, Glenn Lewis, General Idea, Robert Filliou, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Michael Snow, Mona Hatoum, Antoni Muntadas, Steve Lacy, Tari Ito, Rebecca Belmore, Germaine Koh, Khan Lee, Cornelia Wyngaarden and many others. He has filled a variety of roles as artist, curator, writer, organizer and administrator. Throughout his career, he has continued an individual practice of painting, music, photography, video, sound and sculpture. He lives at the Western Front and spends a fair amount of time in swiya, territory of shíshálh Nation, as a member of the Storm Bay Art and Conservation Society. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “The World Accordion To Hank — with Hank Bull.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 22, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/254-hank-bull.html.

Why has the cost of the new Vancouver Art Gallery gone up by 50%? GUEST: Bob Rennie, art collector and founder and executive director of Rennie, a Vancouver-based real estate marketing firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Election promises laid out by political parties  GUEST: Rob Shaw, BC legislative journalist who writes for Glacier Media Vancouver-based women's sailing team in the America's Cup in Barcelona GUEST: Isabella Bertold, Team captain from the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club Why has the cost of the new Vancouver art gallery gone up by 50%? GUEST: Bob Rennie, real estate developer in Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The cost of the new Vancouver Art Gallery has surged to $600 million! Guest: Chris Gardner - President, Independent Contractors and Business Association In the tech realm, Nelson officers are claiming their privacy rights were violated. Plus, X has been banned in Brazil! Guest: Andy Baryer - Tech and Digital Lifestyle Expert at HandyAndyMedia.com Two rallies are being held to protest against No-Fault Insurance. Guest: Michael Elliott - President, Trial Lawyers Association of BC  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're excited to drop in your feed today to tell you about a show you'll love-- Attitudes! A pop culture comedy podcast hosted by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi who cover LGBTQ+ and gender issues of the moment with both hilarity and healthy doses of absurdity. In this episode of Attitudes, Erin is fresh from VAG (the Vancouver Art Gallery), Bryan's Google Maps is defaulting to Canada, and Erin shares a clip from Antiques Roadshow's stop in Albuquerque. Bryan shares two issues: an LA County lifeguard who sued his employer for "violating his sincere religious beliefs" by forcing him to raise a Pride flag in June, and Utah's Governor Spencer Cox declaring June a "Month of Bridge Building". Erin shares the reasoning for the GOP governors who voted against the Right to Contraception Act which would have codified contraception act into federal law.  If you like this episode, head to Attitudes! wherever you get your podcasts or https://lemonada.lnk.to/attitudesfd.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're excited to drop in your feed today to tell you about a show you'll love-- Attitudes! A pop culture comedy podcast hosted by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi who cover LGBTQ+ and gender issues of the moment with both hilarity and healthy doses of absurdity. In this episode of Attitudes, Erin is fresh from VAG (the Vancouver Art Gallery), Bryan's Google Maps is defaulting to Canada, and Erin shares a clip from Antiques Roadshow's stop in Albuquerque. Bryan shares two issues: an LA County lifeguard who sued his employer for "violating his sincere religious beliefs" by forcing him to raise a Pride flag in June, and Utah's Governor Spencer Cox declaring June a "Month of Bridge Building". Erin shares the reasoning for the GOP governors who voted against the Right to Contraception Act which would have codified contraception act into federal law.  If you like this episode, head to Attitudes! wherever you get your podcasts or https://lemonada.lnk.to/attitudesfd.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Cost of new Vancouver Art Gallery surges to $600M in latest megaproject sticker shock GUEST: Matt McInnes - President, Electrical Contractors Association of BC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ER Closure in Burns Lake GUEST: Henry Wiebe - Mayor of Burns Lake Temporary service interruption at 100 Mile District General Hospital emergency department GUEST: Maureen Pinkney - Mayor of 100 Mile House B.C. substantially increases dangerous driving impound fees GUEST: Kyla Lee - Lawyer, Acumen Law Cost of new Vancouver Art Gallery surges to $600M in latest megaproject sticker shock GUEST: Matt McInnes - President, Electrical Contractors Association of BC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adore us or adorn us. This week Erin is fresh from VAG (the Vancouver Art Gallery), Bryan's Google Maps is defaulting to Canada, and Erin shares a clip from Antiques Roadshow's stop in Albuquerque.  Bryan shares two 'ssues: an LA County lifeguard who sued his employer for "violating his sincere religious beliefs" by forcing him to raise a Pride flag in June, and Utah's Governor Spencer Cox declaring June a "Month of Bridge Building".  Erin shares the reasoning for the GOP governors who voted against the Right to Contraception Act which would have codified contraception act into federal law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Show notes below:   Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2024 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   Links: https://www.erikamitsuhashi.com/ https://holdonletgo.ca/performance/wherevereverhttps://www.katefranklin.ca/ About Erika: Erika Mitsuhashi is an interdisciplinary artist and performer living and working on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples, known as Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied at Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts receiving a BFA (hons) in dance. She has had the pleasure of interpreting the work of dance artists including Justine A. Chambers, Ziyian Kwan (Dumb Instrument Dance), Sasha Kleinplatz (Wants&Needs Danse), Rob Kitsos, Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance) and Judith Garay (Dancers Dancing) in festivals and platforms such as Vancouver International Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Re-FUSE presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 2020. Erika's work has taken the form of performance for stage, installation, experimental film, site specific/responsive performance, scenography and projection design. Most recently she has been experimenting with live-stream video and digital spaces as sites for intimacy and choreography of attention. Her work and collaborative projects have been presented locally and internationally by PAUL Studios Berlin, Powell Street Festival, Toronto Love-In's PS:We are All Here series, Surrey Art Gallery's InFlux, Kinetic Studio's Open Studio Series, Shooting Gallery Performance Series, Upintheair Theatre's rEvolver Festival and La Serre's OFFTA festival of live art. She has been supported by organizations including New Works, SummerWorks, VIVO Media Arts, plastic orchid factory, Dance West Network, Boca De Lupo, Theatre Replacement and Company 605 in the creation and development of her works to date. Locally she engages with two diverse collaborative groups: Mardon + Mitsuhashi and Erika Mitsuhashi & Francesca Frewer.    About Tara:   Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists including; Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca De Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, Vertigo Theatre (Calgary).  With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can't remember the word for I can't remember, Body Parts, Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally.  Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Recent works include a collaboration with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, empty.swimming.pool, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria and Vancouver), ensemble creation, how to be,  which premiered at The Cultch, and her solo I can't remember the word for I can't remember, toured widely, and her newest solo Body Parts has been made into a stunning film which is currently touring virtually. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their child.

For the 27th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Eva Respini, author of “Simone Leigh,” published by DelMonico Books in association with the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Eva Respini's book offers a deep dive into the groundbreaking work of contemporary artist Simone Leigh, whose multidimensional artistry challenges conventions, and sparks meaningful conversations about race, gender, and identity. Through Eva's expertise, we'll uncover the complexities of Leigh's art, and gain a deeper understanding of its cultural significance. Eva served as the Curator and Co-Commissioner for the 2022 US Pavilion's presentation of Simone Leigh at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. It marked the first time a Black woman represented the United States at the Biennale, and Leigh won the 2022 Golden Lion for her groundbreaking work. Eva organized the highly successful mid-career survey of Simone Leigh's works, which opened at the ICA/Boston in April 2023 and will tour across the United States through 2025. In addition to the insightful writing from multiple perspectives of 22 contributing scholars and collaborators of Leigh's, the book is beautifully illustrated with plates that feature Leigh's critically acclaimed work for the Biennale and works made throughout her career. See an album of Simone Leigh's Biennale exhibition. Eva Respini is Deputy Director and Director of Curatorial Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Between 2015-2023, Respini was Deputy Director and Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA/Boston). Prior to her tenure at the ICA/Boston, she served as Curator at the Museum of Modern Art for more than a decade in the department of photography. She currently teaches a seminar on curatorial practice at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Other universities where she has taught and lectured include School of Visual Arts, Columbia University; Yale University's School of Art; and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Eva has published numerous books and catalogues and her writing appears in museum publications and periodicals. She received a BA and MA in art history from Columbia University and was a 2014 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. "Reading the Art World" is a live interview and podcast series with leading art world authors hosted by art advisor Megan Fox Kelly. The conversations explore timely subjects in the world of art, design, architecture, artists and the art market, and are an opportunity to engage further with the minds behind these insightful new publications. Megan Fox Kelly is an art advisor and past President of the Association of Professional Art Advisors who works with collectors, estates and foundations.For more information, visit meganfoxkelly.com, hear our past interviews, and subscribe at the bottom of our Of Interest page for new posts.Follow us on Instagram: @meganfoxkellyPurchase “Simone Leigh” at Delmonico Books.Music composed by Bob Golden

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Ryan as we explore the latest MuseNews! April 2024 News: BC Sports Hall Of Fame comes alive with immersive digital Indigenous gallery Grants allows Keremeos' Grist Mill to hire more summer students - Penticton Western News Historic Chinese, Canadian Pacific Railway and Klondike collections unite in new UBC museum Rebuilding starts on Lytton's Chinese History Museum Royal BC Museum gets $250K donation to digitize Indigenous AV collection - Greater Victoria News Nanaimo museum looks at Chinese citizens shipped in secret through Canada during First World War Construction begins on new Vancouver Art Gallery, featuring traditional Coast Salish design Province to provide $250,000 to help preserve iconic Martin Mars water bomber

Show notes below:   Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2024 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   Links: https://justineachambers.com/ https://www.katefranklin.ca/ About Justine: The anchors of Justine A. Chambers movement based practice are found in collaborative creation, close observation, and the idea of choreography as living archive. She is concerned with a choreography of the everyday; with the unintentional dances, as she describes them “that are already there.” She emerges from the Black American Diaspora, bi-racial and a dual citizen. Her practice extends from this continuum, and its entanglements with western contemporary dance and visual art practices. Her recent choreographic projects include: Zephyrs, Heirloom, And then this also, One hundred more, tailfeather, for all of us, it could have been like this, ten thousand times and one hundred more,  Family Dinner, Family Dinner: The Lexicon, Semi-precious: the faceting of a gemstone only appears complete and critical; Enters and Exits and COPY. Chambers' work has been hosted at: Libby Leshgold Gallery at ECUAD, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery at Concordia, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Burrard Arts Foundation, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Mile Zero Dance Society, Festival of New Dance, Agora de la danse, Canada Dance Festival, Dance in Vancouver, Dance Saskatchewan, Dancing on the Edge Festival, New Dance Horizons, The Roundhouse Community Arts Centre, Vancouver Art Gallery and the Western Front. Chambers is a founding member of project bk, was artist in residence at artist run centre 221A (2017), a selected artist for the  Visiting Dance Artist Program at the National Arts Centre (2019-2020), one of three choreographer's in the Yulanda Faris Choreographer's Program (2017-2018), and associate artist and artist in residence to The Dance Centre (2015-2017), Justine has collaborated on projects with: Digital video artist Josh Hite: COPY: a movement based installation, Incoming, Green Boot Print (The Roundhouse Community Arts Centre, Code Lab and 350.org), Choreography Walk (2015: Vancouver, 2019: Hong Kong, 2019: Vancouver). Choreographer and dancer Laurie Young: One hundred more Visual artist Natalie Purschwitz and sound artist Anju Singh: Co-facilitation of Trackings and Trappings – Summer Institute at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art Sound artist Elisa Ferrari: EMF Movement Studies.  Visual artist Mike Bourscheid: Idealverein Dance Artist Alexa Solveig Mardon and scholar Peter Dickinson: Our Present Dance Histories Visual artist Evann Siebens:  Homemade Again. Dance artist Claudia Fancello: Light Was The Night: Night Shifting. Musician Ben Brown:  We're Making a Band Visual Artist Brendan Fernandes: The Working Move (The Western Front, The Stedelijk Museum) Contemporary Gamelan Composer Michael Tenzer: Sphinx (Tour of Bali 2013) Visual artist Jen Weih: Stack of Moves (Wrong Waves Festival 2013) Visual artists Marilou Lemmens and Richard Ibghy: Is there anything at all left to do be done at all (Trinity Square Video) Dance artist Deanna Peters: One + the Other (The Cultch and New Dance Horizons) Chambers, Sadira Rodrigues and battery opera's Su Feh Lee co-facilitate the monthly forum The Talking Thinking Dancing Body; a conversation about aesthetics, context and artistic processes. As a dancer, she has worked with a number of choreographers both nationally and abroad. Including: Kate Franklin, ame henderson, sasha ivanochko, battery opera, adelheid dance projects, Company 605, Tara Cheyenne Performance, Oded Graf and Yossi Berg, Wen Wei Dance, Mascall Dance. Chambers teaches at The School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Working Class, Toronto Community Love-In, Modus Operandi Training Program and Ballet BC. Justine is currently engaged as an artistic monitor for the work of Mardon + Mitsuhashi, and Amanda Acorn. Chambers is Max Tyler-Hite's mother.   About Kate:   Kate Franklin was born in North Bay, Ontario. She started dancing at age 5 and got super serious about it at age 10. When she was 13, she left home to attend Quinte Ballet School of Canada in Belleville, Ontario, where she undertook her professional training for the next five years. Now an independent contemporary dance artist, she has spent the past 20 or so years in Toronto/Tkaronto and so-called Vancouver (on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations) wearing almost every "hat" a person can wear in the community, (performer, choreographer, administrator, volunteer, producer, presenter, educator, outside eye, probably a couple other things). She works regularly for local artists Company 605, Justine A. Chambers and Tara Cheyenne Performance, amongst others, as well as being in her eighth season as Associate Artistic Director of four-year post-secondary contemporary dance program Modus Operandi, where she has the responsibility and privilege of teaching a small, dedicated, passionate group of younger dance artists.  Kate has taught Yoga and Pilates mat work in the past.    About Tara:   Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists including; Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca De Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, Vertigo Theatre (Calgary).  With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can't remember the word for I can't remember, Body Parts, Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally.  Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Recent works include a collaboration with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, empty.swimming.pool, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria and Vancouver), ensemble creation, how to be,  which premiered at The Cultch, and her solo I can't remember the word for I can't remember, toured widely, and her newest solo Body Parts has been made into a stunning film which is currently touring virtually. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their child.

In 2015, the Vancouver Art Gallery believed it had made a groundbreaking acquisition. 10 sketches by Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald were unearthed in the mid-1970s and sold off. But experts in the Canadian art world weren't convinced they were authentic. But it wouldn't be until late 2023 that the truth was finally revealed to the public.Marsha Lederman is a columnist for the Globe, and has been reporting on this artwork since the Vancouver Art Gallery first announced their acquisition nearly a decade ago. She's on the show to talk about how the mystery was finally solved, what it means for an art gallery to come clean.Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email us at thedecibel@globeandmail.com

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Show notes below:   Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2024 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   Links:   Festival Of Recorded Movement: https://www.f-o-r-m.ca/   https://www.f-o-r-m.ca/the-team    The London Contemporary Dance School: https://theplace.org.uk/study     About Sophia:   My name is Sophia Mai Wolfe (she/her/hers), I am a queer, Japanese-Canadian independent artist whose practice is ever-changing. My practice moves and connects me to live performance, video documentation, curation, festival programming, editing, filmmaking, and directing. I am a grateful guest of what is colonially know as Vancouver on the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. My dance practice has led me to performing and touring internationally with companies and independent choreographers such as Company 605, Co-Erasga, Chick Snipper, Cindy Mochizuki, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Kelly McInnes, Antonio Somera, Zahra Shahab, The Only Animal and New World Theatre. I hold an MA in Screendance from the London Contemporary Dance School, and am the founding Artistic Director of F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement). Through completing my MA, I became interested in making work that challenges and slows our attention. I use film and dance to invite connection and empathy towards the bodies we witness on screen, as well as invite sensation within the bodies of those witnessing. I work independently and collaboratively with artists and communities to engage audiences in work that moves them through embodied and imaginative experiences. I am also involved with videocan as a video archivist and on the research team which is an online archive of Canadian performance directed by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim. I have also curated screenings for New Blue Dance Festival (Toronto), Vancouver Art Gallery, DOTE (Vancouver) and Body+Camera (Chicago).   About Tara:   Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists including; Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca De Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, Vertigo Theatre (Calgary).  With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can't remember the word for I can't remember, Body Parts, Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally.  Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Recent works include a collaboration with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, empty.swimming.pool, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria and Vancouver), ensemble creation, how to be,  which premiered at The Cultch, and her solo I can't remember the word for I can't remember, toured widely, and her newest solo Body Parts has been made into a stunning film which is currently touring virtually. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their child.

This episode marks the second time featuring artist and friend Raven Chacon on Broken Boxes. The first time I interviewed Raven was in 2017, when I visited with him at the Institute of American Indian Arts where he was participating in a symposium on Indigenous performance titled, Decolonial Gestures. This time around, we met up with Raven at his home in Albuquerque, NM where recurring host and artist Cannupa Hanska Luger chatted with Raven for this episode. The conversation reflects on the arc of Ravens practice over the past decade, along with the various projects they have been able to work on together, including Sweet Land (2020), an award-winning, multi-perspectival and site-specific opera staged at the State Historical Park in downtown Los Angeles, for which Raven was composer and Cannupa co-director and costume designer. Raven and Cannupa also reflect on their time together traveling up to Oceti Sakowin camp in support of the water protectors during the resistance of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Raven provides context to his composition Storm Pattern, which was a response to being onsite at Standing Rock, and the artists speak to the long term impact of an Indigenous solidarity gathering of that magnitude. Raven speaks about being named the first Native American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize or Voiceless Mass, and shares the composition's intention and performance trajectory. To end the conversation, Raven shares insight around staying grounded while navigating the pressures of success, travel and touring as a practicing artist, and reminds us to find ways to slow down and do what matters to you first, creatively, wherever possible. Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and The Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the two-mile-long land art installation Repellent Fence. A recording artist whose work has spanned twenty-two years, Chacon has appeared on more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. His 2020 Manifest Destiny opera Sweet Land, co-composed with Du Yun, received critical acclaim from the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and The New Yorker, and was named 2021 Opera of the Year by the Music Critics Association of North America. Since 2004, he has mentored over 300 high school Native composers in the writing of new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). Chacon is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, the American Academy's Berlin Prize for Music Composition, the Bemis Center's Ree Kaneko Award, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2022) and the Pew Fellow-in-Residence (2022). His solo artworks are in the collectIons of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian's American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, the Albuquerque Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum, and various private collections. Music Featured: Sweet Land, Scene 1: Introduction (feat. Du Yun & Raven Chacon) · Jehnean Washington · Carmina Escobar · Micaela Tobin · Du Yun · Raven Chacon · Lewis Pesacov. Released on 2021-09-24 by The Industry Productions

The Vancouver Art Gallery acquired 10 works by Group of Seven painter J.E.H. MacDonald in 2015 — and now knows they were fakes all along. Curator Richard Hill tells us about turning these pieces into a new exhibition, and the road to discovering they were forgeries.

Seg 1: How does the Oxford English Dictionary choose its Word of the Year? The Oxford word of the year for 2023 is "rizz," an internet slang term mostly used by young people to describe romantic appeal or charm. Guest: Fiona McPherson, Senior Editor at the Oxford English Dictionary Seg 2: View From Victoria: Fueling speculation on an early election As expected, some of the latest polling is showing the BC Conservatives are solidly in second place with a nine point lead over BC United, which has triggered a round of speculation on a possible early election. We get a local look at the top political stories with the help of Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer. Seg 3: Are we on the brink of a contraceptive revolution? Historical limitations on contraception continue to echo throughout women's health research. With a lack of innovation, women are forced to opt for a one-size-fits-all hormonal contraceptive method. Guest: Nicole Schmidt, Contributing Journalist for The Walrus Seg 4: Shoe memorial for women killed by Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence  100's of pairs of shoes are collected and distributed before ending up on the stairs of the Vancouver Art Gallery as a memorial for women who were killed by domestic and intimate partner violence. Guest: Tima Dickerson, Union Representative for the Women's Committee Seg 5: Can you scam a scammer? It's something everyone thinks about if they have been scammed, and our guest utilizes his master's degree in Homeland Security to expose scammers on TikTok, helping followers recognize and avoid online and telephone scams. Guest: Ryan Kelly, Comedian and Homeland Security Expert Seg 6: Is Instagram's algorithm sexualizing children? An investigation by The Wall Street Journal, set up test accounts on Instagram focused on young gymnasts, cheerleaders, and other teen influencers. These test accounts, following only young girls, were served explicit and sexualized content by Instagram's Reels algorithm.  Guest: Jeffrey Horwitz, Technology Reporter for The Wall Street Journal Seg 7: Is the SPS going to comply with Surrey's transition to the RCMP? Despite challenges during the policing transition and delays after the 2022 election, progress has been made. Guest: Norm Lipinski, Chief Constable of the Surrey Police Service Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

100's of pairs of shoes are collected and distributed before ending up on the stairs of the Vancouver Art Gallery as a memorial for women who were killed by domestic and intimate partner violence. Guest: Tima Dickerson, Union Representative for the Women's Committee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week: the New York auctions. Tim Schneider, The Art Newspaper's acting art market editor, joins us to discuss two weeks of major sales in New York and whether they have calmed a jittery art market. Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, an exhibition exploring radical art made in six countries under communist rule in Central Eastern Europe, has just opened at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, US, before travelling to Phoenix, Arizona and Vancouver. We talk to the curator in Minneapolis, Pavel Pyś. And this episode's Work of the Week is Terry Adkins's Last Trumpet (1995). This sculptural installation is included in the latest edition of Artist's Choice, a regular series of shows exploring the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, selected by notable figures outside the museum. This latest iteration, Spirit Movers, has been chosen by the fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner. We talk to Michelle Kuo, a curator of painting and sculpture at the museum, who has worked with Wales Bonner on the show.Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s is at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, until 10 March 2024, it then travels to the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, US, 17 April-29 September 2024 and then the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, 2 November 2024-23 March 2025.Artist's Choice: Grace Wales Bonner—Spirit Movers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 18 November-7 April 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we spotlight Dr. Melissa Karmen Lee, CEO of the Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver. From the Vancouver Art Gallery to UNESCO's Tai Kwun Centre, her journey is a mix of academic excellence and pure passion.   PODCAST INFO:

Will getting rid of the bike lane to restore two way access for cars at Beach Ave effective? Jeff Leigh, Chair of HUB Cycling's Vancouver UBC Local Committee, and President of the Board at HUB Cycling discusses bike lanes on Beach Avenue CKNW Staycation - Vancouver Art Gallery In this episode of CKNW Staycation, Producer Ryan Lehal, who was born and raised in the lower mainland, visits the Vancouver Art Gallery for the first time ever. Accompanying him is fellow Producer Steven Chang.  Metro Vancouver's infrastructure deficit Christy Clark, Former Premier of BC discusses the state of Metro Vancouver's infrastructure Small business perspective on new government funding for vandalism costs Geri Mayer-Judson, Show Contributor chats with a small business owner on new government funding for vandalism costs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of CKNW Staycation, Producer Ryan Lehal, who was born and raised in the lower mainland, visits the Vancouver Art Gallery for the first time ever. Accompanying him is fellow Producer Steven Chang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An excerpt from Raven Chacon's performance Solos, followed by a conversation with Xenia Benivolski, recorded live at e-flux on April 27.  Solos, is a series of short, improvised works performed in quick succession. Using a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments, Chacon's experimental compositions range from sparse, minimalistic soundscapes to complex, multi-layered works that incorporate voices, noises, and found sounds. Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. Since 2004, he has mentored more than three hundred Native high school composers in writing new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). As a solo artist, collaborator, and a member of Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Ar, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, SITE Santa Fe, Ende Tymes Festival, New York, the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International, and Carnegie Museum of Art. Chacon is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship, the American Academy's Berlin Prize, the Bemis Center's Ree Kaneko Award, and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage's Fellowship-in-Residence. Xenia Benivolski writes and lectures about visual art, sound, and music. She is the curator of the project You Can't Trust Music which is an online e-flux exhibition.  

Paying off 50% of mortgages or unfinished developments? It's a sign of the times Guest: Michael Geller, President of The Geller Group, Architect, Planner and Real Estate Consultant Free First Friday Nights at the Vancouver Art Gallery A chat with Jasmine Bradley, Director of Strategic Communications and Branding for the Vancouver Art Gallery about their new program: Free First Friday Nights Guest: Geri Mayer-Judson, Contributor Washington State enacts new laws against drugs Guest: Nathan VanderKlippe, International Correspondent with The Globe & Mail Continuing the conversation on the state of developments in B.C Guest: Andy Yan, Urban Planner and Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University The rise of birth tourism Guest: Simrit Brar, OB-GYN at Calgary's Foothills Medical Centre, and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Calgary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A chat with Jasmine Bradley, Director of Strategic Communications and Branding for the Vancouver Art Gallery about their new program: Free First Friday Nights Guest: Geri Mayer-Judson, Contributor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to another episode of Talks To-Go! Jill and George talk with our next special guest father/daughter duo, Zoe Lister-Jones and Bill Jones. Zoe is an accomplished actor, writer, director and producer where her film credits include How It Ends, The Craft: Legacy, Band-Aid and Consumed. She's also appeared on Broadway and her current project, which she wrote, directed, produced and stars in, is Slip on the Roku Channel. Bill is a seminal figure of the ‘70s conceptual photography scene in Vancouver. His work has been shown widely in the US and internationally, including at the International Center of Photography, The Jewish Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Vancouver Art Gallery and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK. No reservations necessary.  All TALKS are TO-GO.   Instagram: @talkstogopodcast TikTok: @talkstogopod

Independent curator and Vancouver based writer, Joni Low joins our host, Am Johal, on this episode of Below the Radar. They discuss Joni's book, What Are Our Supports?, including the various contributors to the anthology, and the modes of support local artists find and create. Am and Joni explore artistic practices and the different potential futures which artists are inviting into the city and the world. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/208-joni-low.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/208-joni-low.html Resources: Joni Low's Website: https://www.jonilow.com/about What Are Our Supports? Book: https://i-o.cc/books/supports What Are Our Supports? 2018 Art Project: https://www.jonilow.com/works/what-are-our-supports Germaine Koh's Website: https://legacywebsite.front.bc.ca/artist/koh-germaine/ HMH Boothy: https://germainekoh.com/works/hmh-boothy Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: https://www.gf.org/fellows/anna-lowenhaupt-tsing/ Bio: Joni Low is an independent curator and writer living on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ territories. Her practice explores interconnection, intercultural conversations, collaboration and sensory experience and she has worked in non-profit visual arts organizations including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Centre A, and Long March Space Beijing. Low is a recipient of Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, and City of Vancouver funding, and has served on numerous juries including the VIVA and Sobey Art Awards. Low recently co-edited a compendium anthology for the 2018 curatorial series, What are our Supports? with over 20 artists, writers, and poets. Currently a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University's School for Contemporary Arts, Low's research-creation focuses on artists sensing otherwise through intermedial and intersensorial forms to access different ways of knowing, feeling and remembering, and interdisciplinary explorations of synaesthetic resonances across art, neuroscience and the humanities. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “What Are Our Supports?— with Joni Low.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, April 04, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/208-joni-low.html.

Former Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Indian Summer Festival and new Director of Public Engagement and Learning at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Sirish Rao, speaks with Am Johal about his previous work as a Himalayan mountain guide, as a book publisher in India, as well as his experiences with the Jaipur Literature festival and the Indian Summer Festival. This episode explores the creation of arts organizations to celebrate local and regional storytelling. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/202-sirish-rao.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/202-sirish-rao.html Resources: Sirish Rao: https://www.sirishrao.com/ Indian Summer Festival: https://indiansummerfest.ca/about-us/ Tara Books: https://tarabooks.com/about/ The Night Life of Trees: https://tarabooks.com/shop/the-night-life-of-trees/ Jaipur Literature Festival: https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org Bio: Sirish Rao is an arts leader, writer, and cultural innovator with deep connections to the international arts world. A trained Himalayan mountain guide, Sirish spent a decade as Director of Tara Books, growing it from a startup into one of India's most awarded publishing houses. He has worked with a wide range of international cultural institutions including the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), The Frankfurt Book Fair, Kunsthal (Rotterdam), The Museum of London and the Jaipur Literature Festival. Sirish moved to Vancouver in 2010, and co-founded the Indian Summer Festival with his partner Laura Byspalko, leading its growth to become Canada's preeminent presenter of South Asian art and thought. In his role as Artistic Director, Sirish has presented more than a thousand artists on the stages of the festival, in a roster that features Nobel, Booker, Grammy and Oscar Award-winning artists. Sirish is now Director of Public Engagement and Learning at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Mixing Paint with Giant Cricket Bats — with Sirish Rao.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 21, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/202-sirish-rao.html.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal speaks with Marianne Nicolson, an artist and activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada'enuxw First Nations. They discuss ways that Marianne uses art practice to uphold Kwakwaka'wakw philosophies and resist settler-colonial fictions about Indigenous peoples. Marianne describes how her work challenges the colonial practice of treating Indigenous artmaking traditions as resources to be extracted. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/200-marianne-nicolson.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/200-marianne-nicolson.html Resources: Marianne Nicolson: https://www.mariannenicolson.com/ The Sea Captain at Surrey Central skytrain station: https://www.surrey.ca/arts-culture/surrey-public-art/public-art-collection/the-sea-captain Cliff Painting at Kingcome Inlet: https://themedicineproject.com/marianne-nicolson.html#null Bakwina`tsi: the Container for Souls at Artspeak Gallery: https://artspeak.ca/artspeak-wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Postscript-18-Daina-Warren-on-Marianne-Nicolson.pdf The House of the Ghosts at Vancouver Art Gallery: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/38869/marianne-nicolson-the-house-of-the-ghosts/ The Rivers Monument at Vancouver International Airport: https://www.yvr.ca/en/about-yvr/art/sea-to-sky Marianne's PhD Dissertation: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/5135?show=full To Refuse/To Wait/To Sleep at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery: https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/to-refuse-to-wait-to-sleep-ma/ Bio: Marianne Nicolson is an artist activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada'enuxw First Nations. The Musgamakw Dzawada'enuxw Nations are part of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwak'wala speaking peoples) of the Pacific Northwest Coast. She is trained in both traditional Kwakwaka'wakw forms and culture and contemporary gallery and museum-based practice. Nicolson works as a Kwakwaka'wakw cultural researcher and historian, as well as an advocate for Indigenous land rights. Her practice is multi-disciplinary encompassing photography, painting, carving, video, installation, monumental public art, writing and speaking. All her work is political in nature and seeks to uphold Kwakwaka'wakw traditional philosophy and worldview through contemporary mediums and technology. Exhibitions include the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; The Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Museum of the American Indian in New York, Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Ontario, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands and many others. Major monumental public artworks are situated in Vancouver International Airport, the Canadian Embassy in Amman, Jordan and the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France. Cite this episode: Johal, Am. “Art and the Spatial Logics of Colonialism with Marianne Nicolson.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 7, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/200-marianne-nicolson.html.

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Ende Tymes Festival, and The Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009-2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the 2-mile long land art installation Repellent Fence.   A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. His 2020 Manifest Destiny opera Sweet Land, co-composed with Du Yun, received critical acclaim from The LA Times, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and was named 2021 Opera of the Year by the Music Critics Association of North America.   Since 2004, he has mentored over 300 high school Native composers in the writing of new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). Chacon is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, the American Academy's Berlin Prize for Music Composition, the Bemis Center's Ree Kaneko Award, and in 2022 will serve as the Pew Fellow-in-Residence.   His solo artworks are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian's American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, a various private collections. Website: www.spiderwebsinthesky.com IG: Ravenchcn Twitter:@Raven_chacon

We meet leading artist Elad Lassry (b. Tel Aviv, 1977) who defines his practice as consumed with “pictures”—generic images culled from vintage picture magazines and film archives. Tapping the visual culture of still and motion pictures, he engages traditions of story-building with images and the ghosts of history that persist in images long after they have been lifted out of their original contexts. Elad Lassry creates or rediscovers images from a vast array of sources, redeploying them in a variety of media, including photography, film, drawing and sculpture. Despite the diversity of his approach, Lassry has developed one of the most distinctive visual idioms in contemporary art and a rigorously focussed practice that investigates the nature of our perception and the meaning of the contemporary image. Lassry describes his 'pictures', which are all exactly the same scale, as ‘something that's suspended between a sculpture and an image'. The artist achieves this through a play of virtual and actual space. The image in each picture proposes a virtual space, while the frame, which is not a supplement to the image but an extension of it, carves out an actual space for the object to occupy. The images might be found – anything from a magazine snapshot to a Hollywood headshot – or photographed in studio conditions that reflect many of the concerns of traditional still life. Lassry then deploys the image as an ambiguous, free-floating signifier, which combines with the frame to create a new set of conditions. This hybrid entity becomes a kind of epistemological puzzle, engaging the viewer's perceptual faculties. How does its objecthood affect our reading of the image? How does the subject matter of the image affect our perception of the object? This disruptive play between image and object extends into his film and sculpture. In the 16mm film Zebra and Woman, the camera begins at the animal's tail before panning across its striped hide, examining the nuances of colour and form as if it were a mid-century abstraction. Passing the animal's head, the viewer is plunged, briefly, into blackness before the incongruous appearance of an attractive woman again dislocates the pictorial space. This set of conditions is typical of the artist's concerns: close-looking, the indistinct space between abstraction and figuration, the combination of flatness and depth, all combining to examine how the mind reacts to different visual stimuli. Lassry brings this set of concerns to bear on a body of sculptural work based on cabinets that further explore a range of perceptual paradoxes. Produced on a scale that reflects the unchanging dimensions of his pictures, the cabinets look both utilitarian and ornamental, both a functional object and its representation. Lassry lives & works in Los Angeles. He has exhibited internationally including solo shows at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (2020); Le Plateau, Paris (2018); Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (2017); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2014); Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2012) and Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2010).Follow Elad's galleries: @MassimoDeCarlo, @GalerieFrancescaPia, @WhiteCube & @303Gallery.Special thanks to Francesca Sabatini at Massimo de Carlo. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.