Showroom: Art/Space/Forums - in situ space?
July 12, 2008
/art/space/forums/ - In situ
- A discussion around the Gentrification and Artist Run Centres in Down Town East Side
Saturday, July 12, 2008
2 to 4 pm
Showroom at Centre A
2 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Panel participants: Lisa Fedorak, Melanie O'Brian, and Irwin Oostindie
Moderated by Makiko Hara
/art/space/forums/ presents a series of discussions on the relationship between art and space. Held within the platform project Showroom at Centre A (June 6-July 12, 2008), /art/space/forums/ propose a series of questions that outline, examine, and open up concepts of space and art through a re-consideration of aesthetics, the public sphere, architecture, and urban life.
For this forum, In Situ?, the panel examines new current situation of arts institutions along the gentrification of down Town East Side. In the context of Show Room, the four directors of leading art organization will address specifically about the their gallery condition within this ongoing DTES's gentrification and talk about their art program in relation to the issue by examining the institution's positions within the larger context of art community.
Panelists: (Alphabetical Order)
Lisa Fedorak is a Vancouver-based artist and has been the Director at Access since 2006. She has served on the boards of the grunt gallery in Vancouver, the Forest City Gallery in London, ON, and currently sits on the board of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres. She obtained her MFA from the University of Western Ontario and her BFA from ECIAD.
Melanie O'Brian is currently Director/Curator at Artspeak in Vancouver. She has organized exhibitions locally and internationally, including at the Vancouver Art Gallery, has written for numerous journals, catalogues, and magazines, and received her MA in Art History from the University of Chicago.
Irwin Oostindie is the executive Director, Gallery Gachet. Irwin is a Dutch/Canadian artist and administrator doing cultural planning, cultural infrastructure development, and support for a media arts cluster in Vancouver's inner-city. www.creativetechnology.org is a 9,000 square foot community media arts centre being developed parallel to a massive inner-city redevelopment www.woodwardsdistrict.com that opens before the 2010 Winter Olympics. Irwin works with the Fearless Media Cluster, a unique grouping of tech companies, open source activists, bloggers, low income residents and artist codesigning open source communications systems for this area-Canada's poorest neighbourhood. www.fearlesscity.ca is in alpha stage, while it's mobile arm, supported in 2008 by New Media BC's www.mobilemuse.ca platform, will enable urban poor/artists to access an open mesh network, recycled mobile devices, two-way rich media file sharing, and interactive live screens in public spaces. Irwin is also a parent, artist, curator, and works as Executive Director of Gallery Gachet, an interdisciplinary cultural centre for artists informed by mental health issues, trauma and/or addictions.
Makiko Hara is the curator at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art since January 2007. She has curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions by Japanese, Canadian, and international artists and has served as project coordinator for several international exhibitions, including the International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama, 2001/2005; and The Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, 2003.Hara is a contributor of Fillip Magazine.
- A discussion around the Gentrification and Artist Run Centres in Down Town East Side
Saturday, July 12, 2008
2 to 4 pm
Showroom at Centre A
2 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Panel participants: Lisa Fedorak, Melanie O'Brian, and Irwin Oostindie
Moderated by Makiko Hara
/art/space/forums/ presents a series of discussions on the relationship between art and space. Held within the platform project Showroom at Centre A (June 6-July 12, 2008), /art/space/forums/ propose a series of questions that outline, examine, and open up concepts of space and art through a re-consideration of aesthetics, the public sphere, architecture, and urban life.
For this forum, In Situ?, the panel examines new current situation of arts institutions along the gentrification of down Town East Side. In the context of Show Room, the four directors of leading art organization will address specifically about the their gallery condition within this ongoing DTES's gentrification and talk about their art program in relation to the issue by examining the institution's positions within the larger context of art community.
Panelists: (Alphabetical Order)
Lisa Fedorak is a Vancouver-based artist and has been the Director at Access since 2006. She has served on the boards of the grunt gallery in Vancouver, the Forest City Gallery in London, ON, and currently sits on the board of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres. She obtained her MFA from the University of Western Ontario and her BFA from ECIAD.
Melanie O'Brian is currently Director/Curator at Artspeak in Vancouver. She has organized exhibitions locally and internationally, including at the Vancouver Art Gallery, has written for numerous journals, catalogues, and magazines, and received her MA in Art History from the University of Chicago.
Irwin Oostindie is the executive Director, Gallery Gachet. Irwin is a Dutch/Canadian artist and administrator doing cultural planning, cultural infrastructure development, and support for a media arts cluster in Vancouver's inner-city. www.creativetechnology.org is a 9,000 square foot community media arts centre being developed parallel to a massive inner-city redevelopment www.woodwardsdistrict.com that opens before the 2010 Winter Olympics. Irwin works with the Fearless Media Cluster, a unique grouping of tech companies, open source activists, bloggers, low income residents and artist codesigning open source communications systems for this area-Canada's poorest neighbourhood. www.fearlesscity.ca is in alpha stage, while it's mobile arm, supported in 2008 by New Media BC's www.mobilemuse.ca platform, will enable urban poor/artists to access an open mesh network, recycled mobile devices, two-way rich media file sharing, and interactive live screens in public spaces. Irwin is also a parent, artist, curator, and works as Executive Director of Gallery Gachet, an interdisciplinary cultural centre for artists informed by mental health issues, trauma and/or addictions.
Makiko Hara is the curator at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art since January 2007. She has curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions by Japanese, Canadian, and international artists and has served as project coordinator for several international exhibitions, including the International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama, 2001/2005; and The Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, 2003.Hara is a contributor of Fillip Magazine.
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