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Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation is a series of talks, performances, public actions, publications, and an exhibition that examines the collective walk/protest/public demonstration as both a performance and a social formation and fosters discussion about issues related to urbanism, community activism and politically engaged artistic practice. The project is curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte and presented through UNIT/PITT Projects. The core of the project is in four collaborations between artists and community organizations, that initiate community engagement and democratic use of public space via the realization of site-specific participatory performances.The speaker series is co-presented by UNIT/PITT, the SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the SFU Institute for the Humanities. The project is supported through the BC Arts Council’s Arts-Based Community Development Program and by the Hamber Foundation.
Author: Robertson, Kirsty
Date created: 2014-04-12
A presentation by Rick Lugg of Sustainable Collection Services. Presented at the BCRLG Speaker Series on March 6, 2014 at SFU Vancouver.
Author: Lugg, Rick
Date created:
His recent books include The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (Semiotext(e) 2012), After The Future (AK Press, 2011), and The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (Semiotext(e) 2009). His visit is in conjunction with Brady Cranfield and Jamie Hilder’s exhibition Due To Injuries… at 221A.This event is co-sponsored by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the SFU Institute for the Humanities.
Author: Berardi, Franco
Date created: 2013-09-14
Presented by Centre A (Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art) with the support of SFU Woodwards Cultural Unit, Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver.
Author: Nasar, Hammad
Date created: 2013-09-19
Presented by the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL), SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, and the BC Civil Liberties Association.
Author: Gomez, Rosa, Author: Savone, Antonio
Date created: 2013-09-23
Audain Gallery: Grey on Grey Lecture Series Curated by Melanie O’Brian with Amy Kazymerchyk in collaboration with the School for the Contemporary Arts’ Audain Visual Artist in Residence Program.
Author: Gandesha, Samir, Author: Mansoor, Jaleh
Date created: 2013-11-06
Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City is a series of talks, curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, the SFU Institute for the Humanities, and UNIT/PITT Projects. The series is part of a multi-layered project researching the aesthetic and conceptual overlap existing between strategies for participatory performance and activist self-organized demonstrations (presented as part of UNIT/PITT Projects 2013-14 programming year). Realized through a series of discursive events, site-specific performances, an exhibition and print publications, this project seeks to establish connections between artistic and activist actions in urban space, and initiate dialogue about the transformative potential of these types of interventions on the urban experience through the creation temporary communities and alternative subject positions.For more information on the project: http://www.helenpittgallery.org/exhibitions/current-and-upcoming/collective-walksspaces-of-contestation/
Author: Mann, Geoff
Date created: 2013-10-23
Hito Steyerl’s installation Adorno’s Grey (2012) features a single channel video set at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt where Theodor W. Adorno famously taught. It shows two conservators scraping the walls of a lecture hall, looking for the legendary grey that Adorno had his classroom painted in order to promote concentration. The “Busenattentat” (Breast Attack) incident that occurred during his 1969 lecture series, “Introduction to Dialectical Thinking”, is narrated and interpreted over the forensic performance. Parallel to the excavation, Steyerl uncovers a constellation of artifacts from the histories of student protests, nude protests and monochrome painting. In her practice, Steyerl employs riddles, puns and word play as tools for ideological critique. In Adorno’s Grey, she exercises the dialectical properties of grey within philosophy, aesthetics, pedagogy and politics.Steyerl is a Berlin based filmmaker and author in the area of essayist documentary film/video, media art and video installation. She teaches New Media Art at University of the Arts, Berlin and her work has been included in the Venice Biennale (2013), Taipei Biennial (2010), dOCUMENTA (12) (2007) and Manifesta 5 (2004), among others.Curated by Melanie O’Brian with Amy Kazymerchyk in collaboration with the School for the Contemporary Arts’ Audain Visual Artist in Residence Program.
Author: Mourad, Sara, Author: Rattray, Michael
Date created: 2013-11-06
Panelists include:
Dr. Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Dr. Bruce Alexander, author of Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit
Dave Murray, SALOME/NAOMI Association of Patients
Scott Bernstein, Lawyer Pivot Legal SocietyThis event is supported by the Pivot Legal Society and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement.
Author: Maté, Gabor, Author: Alexander, Bruce, Author: Murray, Dave, Author: Bernstein, Scott
Date created: 2013-10-30
Moderated by Charlie Smith of the Georgia StraightThis event is supported by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and SFU's Centre for Dialogue
Author: Sacco, Joe
Date created: 2013-11-06
This project is co-presented with the SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the SFU Institute for the Humanities, and is supported through the BC Arts Council’s Arts-Based Community Development Program.Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City is a series of talks, curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, the SFU Institute for the Humanities, and UNIT/PITT Projects. The series is part of a multi-layered project researching the aesthetic and conceptual overlap existing between strategies for participatory performance and activist self-organized demonstrations (presented as part of UNIT/PITT Projects 2013-14 programming year). Realized through a series of discursive events, site-specific performances, an exhibition and print publications, this project seeks to establish connections between artistic and activist actions in urban space, and initiate dialogue about the transformative potential of these types of interventions on the urban experience through the creation temporary communities and alternative subject positions.
Author: Peck, Jamie
Date created: 2013-11-12
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a writer, scholar, organizer and storyteller of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry and is a member of Alderville First Nation. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, and teaches in the PhD Program in Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She has also lectured at the University of British Columbia, Athabasca University, Ryerson University, the University of Victoria, the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg and the Dechinta Centre for Learning and Research.Presented by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, SFU Office of Aboriginal Peoples, and UBC First Nations Studies.
Author: Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Date created: 2013-11-13
Supported by the SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Author: Saklikar, Renee
Date created: 2013-11-13
Supported by the SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Author: Nunn, Scott, Author: Larkin, DJ, Author: Singh, Alvin, Author: Ferguson, Karen
Date created: 2013-11-13
Presented by the Think City Society in partnership with SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and Public Policy Program.
Author: Bond, Abigail, Author: Knight, Nancy
Date created: 2013-11-15
Author: Bachinsky, Elizabeth, Author: Dachsel, Marita, Author: Dawn, Amber, Author: Harper, Jennica
Date created: 2013-11-15
This is event is sponsored by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, The Tyee Solutions Society and Stonehouse Institute
Author: Dembicki, Geoff, Author: Arden, Ashley, Author: Hoggan, Jim, Author: Gillard, Keith, Author: Thomas, Carleen, Author: Stephenson, Christie
Date created: 2014-01-22
The project is co-presented with the SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the SFU Institute for the Humanities, and is supported through the BC Arts Council’s Arts-Based Community Development Program and by the Hamber Foundation.Urban Subjects is a cultural research collective formed in 2004 by Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber, and based in Vancouver, Canada and Vienna, Austria. Together they devise research-driven artistic projects that are visual and textual– exhibitions, publications, curatorial work and presentations.Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City is a series of talks, curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, the SFU Institute for the Humanities, and UNIT/PITT Projects.
Author: Derksen, Jeff, Author: Bitter, Sabine, Author: Weber, Helmut
Date created: 2014-02-05