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This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Martinson, Donna
Date created: 2012-04-24
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Tutt, Daniel
Date created: 2012-05-15
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Stalker, Lesley, Author: Walia, Harsha, Author: Csanyi, Elizabeth, Author: Jordan, Sharalyn
Date created: 2012-05-30
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: BC Civil Liberties Association
Date created: 2012-06-01
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Waquet, Francoise, Author: Fleming, James, Author: Cazes, Helene
Date created: 2012-06-18
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Kothari, Miloon
Date created: 2012-07-09
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Kothari, Miloon
Date created: 2012-07-11
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Akbar, MJ
Date created: 2012-07-12
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Nikiforuk, Andrew
Date created: 2012-10-03
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Burnham, Clint
Date created: 2012-10-10
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Brown, Lindsay
Date created: 2012-10-15
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Alvarez, Mavis Dora
Date created: 2012-10-29
A panel discussion with with: Anne Bertrand (ARCA), Biljana Ciric, Ola Khalidi and Diala Khasawnih (Makan), Jonathan Middleton (Bodgers’ and Kludgers’ Co-operative Art Parlour and Or Gallery) Jonathan Middleton (Canada) is an artist and curator based in Vancouver. His practice employs methodologies of comedy and institutional practices to explore interests in language and politics. In 2007 he became the director/curator of the Or Gallery. Biljana Ciric is an independent curator based in Shanghai. She was formerly the director of the Curatorial Department at the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. Her project Institution for the Future (2011) at the Asia Triennial (Manchester) showcased artists’ collectives and small, independent, para-institutions from various Asian countries actively engaged with their local arts scenes and who contribute to the development of an arts infrastructure in their regions. Anne Bertrand (Canada) is currently director of ARCA, and has been active in the not-for-profit art world for the past twenty years. From 2004 to 2012, she was the artistic coordinator of Skol, a Montréal based artist-run centre that supports emerging and research-driven artistic practices. Ola Khalidi and Diala Khasawinh (Jordan)
Along with Samah Hijawi they are core members of the collective Makan, an independent contemporary art space based in Amman, Jordan. Founded in 2003 by Khalidi, Makan encourages experimentation in concepts and production. Among its projects are an artist exchange and residency program, local and international workshops, exhibitions, performances, and screenings. Bastien Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ) and has worked as a cultural administrator for more than 25 years, after having been a paleontologist and a teacher. He was instrumental in the founding of the Conseil de la culture de la région du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean in 1978. In 1986, he cofounded the RCAAQ. It represents an interest community of over 2,250 professional artists and cultural workers. Each year, this network produces over 900 activities including exhibitions, performances, publications, symposiums, and so on. See rcaaq.org. Virginija Januškeviciute is currently a curator at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania. She is also one of the founders of the Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, an editorial initiative aimed to mediate, generate and suggest real events; the contributions by artists and writers are mainly published online at www.blunt.cc and in an accumulating paper edition. Brad Butler and Karen Mirza organize The Museum of Non Participation in the UK. It proposes a museum as a conceptual (geo)political construct of gesture, image, and thresholds of language. The Museum of Non Participation was conceived during the Pakistani Lawyers movement in Islamabad – protests Mirza and Butler witnessed through the windows of the National Art Gallery – and developed over an eighteen-month period. As part of the project, the artists have worked with street vendors, Urdu translators, architects, estate agents, housing activists, lawyers, hairdressers, filmmakers, wedding photographers, newspaper printers, artists, and writers to create spaces for dialogue and exchange. The project has taken the form of various media. Claire Tancons (USA)
and Christopher Cozier (Trinidad). Tancons is a curator, writer, and researcher whose work focuses on carnival, public ceremonial culture, and protest movements. Christopher Cozier is an artist, writer, and curator living and working in Trinidad. Cozier co-directs Alice Yard at once a physical space, a collaborative network, and an ongoing conversation about contemporary art and creativity in the Caribbean.
Author: Bertrand, Anne, Author: Ciric, Biljana, Author: Khalidi, Ola, Author: Khasawnih, Diala, Author: Middleton, Jonathan, Contributor: Josh Olson, Contributor: Darren Heroux, Contributor: Ron Tran
Date created: 2012-10-14
A panel discussion with with: Bastien Gilbert, Virginija Januškevičiūtė(Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt), Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (Museum of Non-Participation), Claire Tancons and Christopher Cozier (Alice Yard), Oloff Olson. Bastien Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ) and has worked as a cultural administrator for more than 25 years, after having been a paleontologist and a teacher. He was instrumental in the founding of the Conseil de la culture de la région du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean in 1978. In 1986, he cofounded the RCAAQ. It represents an interest community of over 2,250 professional artists and cultural workers. Each year, this network produces over 900 activities including exhibitions, performances, publications, symposiums, and so on. See rcaaq.org. Virginija Januškeviciute is currently a curator at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania. She is also one of the founders of the Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, an editorial initiative aimed to mediate, generate and suggest real events; the contributions by artists and writers are mainly published online at www.blunt.cc and in an accumulating paper edition. Brad Butler and Karen Mirza organize The Museum of Non Participation in the UK. It proposes a museum as a conceptual (geo)political construct of gesture, image, and thresholds of language. The Museum of Non Participation was conceived during the Pakistani Lawyers movement in Islamabad – protests Mirza and Butler witnessed through the windows of the National Art Gallery – and developed over an eighteen-month period. As part of the project, the artists have worked with street vendors, Urdu translators, architects, estate agents, housing activists, lawyers, hairdressers, filmmakers, wedding photographers, newspaper printers, artists, and writers to create spaces for dialogue and exchange. The project has taken the form of various media. Claire Tancons (USA)
and Christopher Cozier (Trinidad). Tancons is a curator, writer, and researcher whose work focuses on carnival, public ceremonial culture, and protest movements. Christopher Cozier is an artist, writer, and curator living and working in Trinidad. Cozier co-directs Alice Yard at once a physical space, a collaborative network, and an ongoing conversation about contemporary art and creativity in the Caribbean.
Author: Butler, Brad, Author: Olsson, Olof, Author: Gilbert, Bastien, Author: Januškevičiūtė, Virginija , Author: Mirza, Karen, Author: Tancons, Claire, Author: Cozier, Christopher, Contributor: Josh Olson, Contributor: Darren Heroux, Contributor: Ron Tran
Date created: 2012-10-14
A debate on the topic of "Should artists professionalize?" With: Team A (for): Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jeff Derksen, Candice Hopkins. Team B (against): Tania Bruguera, Sam Gould, Claire Tancons. Sam Gould is co-founder of Red76, a collaborative art practice initiated in Portland, Oregon in 2000. He is the acting editor of Red76’s publication, the Journal of Radical Shimming, as well as full-time visiting faculty within the Text and Image Arts Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Author: Bryan-Wilson, Julia, Author: Derksen, Jeff, Author: Hopkins, Candice, Author: Bruguera, Tania, Author: Gould, Sam, Author: Tancons, Claire, Contributor: Josh Olson, Contributor: Darren Heroux, Contributor: Ron Tran
Date created: 2012-10-13
Session 06: States and Markets. With: Jeff Derksen, Sean Dockray, Andrea Francke, Gabriel Menotti, Dirk Fleischmann. Jeff Derksen (Canada)
Derksen is a Vancouver and Vienna-based poet and founding member of the Kootenay School of Writing and Artspeak Gallery. With Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, he is a member of the research collective Urban Subjects whose recent edited book works include Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade, Momentarily: Learning from Mega-events (with Bik Van der Pol and Alissa Firth-Eagland) and writing on self-managed urbanism in Caracas (published in Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation co-edited by Markus Miessen and Valerie Kolowratnik ). In 2012, Derksen will take the position of editor at West Coast Line magazine and Line Books. He is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. Sean Dockray (USA)
Dockray is an artist and a founding director of Telic Arts Exchange, a non-profit arts organization providing critical engagement with new media and culture. Dockray initiated The Public School and AAAARG.ORG, platforms for the free exchange of intellectual property and self-directed pedagogy.Dockray’s writing has been published in Cabinet, Bidoun, X-TRA, Volume, and Fillip. Andrea Francke (United Kingdom)
. The Piracy Project is an international publishing and exhibition vehicle exploring the philosophical, legal, and practical implications of cultural piracy and creative modes of reproduction. With a series of talks from guest speakers, workshops, and an open call for pirated book works the project aims to develop a critical and creative platform for issues raised by acts of cultural piracy. The Piracy Project is run by Andrea Francke and Eva Weinmayr as part of AND publishing’s program. Francke was awarded the Red Mansion Prize in 2011 and is currently developing "Invisible spaces of parenthood – A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future" for a forthcoming show at The Showroom in London. Gabriel Menotti (Brazil)
. Menotti is an independent critic and curator engaged in different forms of cinema and grassroots practices, with a PhD in Media & Communications from the University of London. His exhibition projects and installations are an inherent part of his research activity and have been presented in numerous venues throughout the world. Cine Falcatrua (Portuguese for “Cine Hoax”) is a project that aims to rethink the culture industry along the borderline between cinema’s hyper-authorized environment and the fluid operations of new media. Among other projects, Cine Falcatrua is responsible for the Low Resolution Festival, the world’s first competitive festival for internet videos in real movie theatres; the Short[CUT]’s Festival, whose programme was entirely defined by the projectionists, on the fly; and the Really Free Movie Exhibitions, composed only of free works licensed in copyleft, Creative Commons, or GFDL. Dirk Fleischmann (Germany)
. Fleischmann is an artist based in Frankfurt and Seoul, where he is currently teaching at Cheongju University. His work has been presented in international exhibitions and institutions. Fleischmann has received numerous distinctions and honours, including awards from the Hessische Kulturstiftung and the Stiftung Kunstfonds grant. In 2009, Fleischmann received the Arts & Ecology Residency at ZKM Island in Second Life; a special project by Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (ZKM) and the Royal Society Of The Arts, London (RSA). As a visual artist, he has been creating a business conglomerate since 1997 in which his art inhabits economic forms and becomes embedded into given capitalist structures. His art projects intend to and do create financial profit, which he has continuously re-invested into future projects.
Author: Derksen, Jeff, Author: Dockray, Sean, Author: Francke, Andrea, Author: Menotti, Gabriel, Author: Fleischmann, Derek, Contributor: Josh Olson, Contributor: Darren Heroux, Contributor: Ron Tran
Date created: 2012-10-13
Author: Kluckner, Michael, Author: Atkin, John, Author: Vanderhill, Jason, Author: Girn, Naveen
Date created: 2013-04-11