Reading the Land

Join Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery, for a guided tour of the exhibition Reading the Land: Ten Years of Collecting, recorded on July 16, 2022 at the Kamloops Art Gallery. Video by Jonathon Fulton

Echoes of the Homesick Heart By LAURA MICHEL Based on in-person interviews conducted across the Secwépemc Nation over the past several years, Echoes of the Homesick Heart from Playwright Laura Michel (Adams Lake Band member from the Secwépemc Nation in the BC interior) shares stories of this land by incorporating lived experiences and the real-life voices of youth to elders—celebrating the resilience of Indigenous families, communities, and culture. Echoes of the Homesick Heart premiered at the Pavilion Theatre in Kamloops BC in June 2022. Experience the full digital presentation of Echoes of the Homesick Heart starting September 30, 2022 at wctlive.ca/echoes. Artistic Team Cast: CHRIS BOSE Abe | ISSIAH BULL BEAR Sunec | MEREWYN COMEAU Emily | LORI MARCHAND Bernadette Understudy Creative Team: LAURA MICHEL Playwright | ERIC COATES Director | ANDREW KUSHNIR Dramaturge | HAILEY VERBONAC Set, Lighting, and Projection Designer | BONNIE ACKO Costume Designer | JEREMY KNEESHAW Sound Designer | KELSEY RAE Stage Manager | DONNA SHARPE Assistant Stage Manager

0:00 Welcome by Lisa Steele 1:34 Announcements by Charles Stankievech 3:18 Introduction by Lisa Steele 4:37 Rebecca Belmore and Wanda Nanibush conversation 1:17:25 Q & A On November 15, 2018, artist Rebecca Belmore and curator Wanda Nanibush presented a Master of Visual Studies Proseminar. They discussed working on the exhibition Facing the Monumental. They also talked about the role and relevance of art in today’s political climate. Rebecca Belmore is an Anishinaabe-kwe multi-disciplinary artist from Upsala Ontarioand a member of Lac Seul First Nation. Belmore has been awarded two honorary Phd’s, a Governor Generals award in the Visual Arts, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. She represented Canada in the 2005 Venice Bienale and was a featured artist in Documenta 2017. Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe curator, image and word warrior, and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation. Currently she is the inaugural curator of Indigenous art and co-head of the Indigenous + Canadian art dept at the AGO. For more information about the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, visit us at http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson catches up with curator Wanda Nanibush and artist Rebecca Belmore to talk about Belmore's new Art Gallery of Ontario show, and the act of making monuments in the presence of community

The youngest original member of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael often found himself socially on the outside of the group. Learn more about him here.

The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG)’s stellar Dana Claxton exhibition was, in many ways, a first. It was the first major survey in the acclaimed multimedia artist’s 30-year career and the first time many of her significant works have been exhibited in Vancouver, the city in which Claxton has been based since the mid-1980s.

SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair, 2009-2010 DANA CLAXTON is a critically acclaimed international exhibiting artist. She works in film, video, photography, single and multi- channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. She mentors indigenous youth, emerging artist and filmmakers. Her work has been shown internationally at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, MN), Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City (UT), Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis (IN) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), Cyrstal Bridges (Bentonville, AR), with exhibitions at Nasher Gallery of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (TN) and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Minneapolis (MN). Her work is held in Canadian public and private collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and the Audain Museum. She has received numerous awards including the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2020), The Scotia Bank Award in Photography (2020) the VIVA Award, the Eiteljorg Fellowship, the Hnatyshyn Award, and the YWCA Women of Distinction Award. In 2018, she had a solo survey exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She is Head and an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory with the University of British Columbia. Her family reserve is Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in SW Saskatchewan and she resides in Vancouver Canada. Learn more about SFU's President's Dream Colloquium: www.sfu.ca/pdc

Winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Photography Award, artist Dana Claxton works across photography, video, and performance art to investigate Indigenous beauty, contemporary culture, and spirituality. In this virtual talk, Claxton discusses her critically acclaimed practice and delves into the works on display in this season’s Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition, which will offer a wide-ranging exploration of the Great Plains and her studio work in Vancouver. Claxton is a Professor and Head of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia and her family reserve is Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations. © Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University No part of this recording may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University. Every attempt has been made to attribute the original rights or intellectual property holders of the recorded materials. Errors and omissions can be brought to the attention of the Ryerson Image Centre in writing.

Feminist Land Art Retreat Central Gallery January 17 to March 21, 2020 Curated by Charo Neville Feminist Land Art Retreat (FLAR) is a conceptual project that was initiated in 2010 with a poster advertising an unrealized event. Appropriating the style of a 1960s protest poster, the artists inverte

This article reviews the exhibition by Feminist Land Art Retreat (FLAR), with the Studio for Propositional Cinema, in Dusseldorf, Germany from September 4 to October 4, 2015.

In this documentary, filmed in February 2017 on location in Vancouver and produced by BALTIC Archive, we visit Rodney Graham in the final planning stages for his exhibition at BALTIC. The documentary features interviews with Bob Rennie, Wendy Chang, Patrik Andersson, William Gibson and the artists' mother Janet as well as Rodney himself. Rodney Graham is a Canadian artist whose genre defying avant-garde experimentalism has confounded and thrilled audiences in museums and galleries all over the world. This major exhibition combines works in film and video with an extensive presentation of his photographic images. Often a touchstone for other artists, his diverse practice encompasses many roles; painter, photographer, writer, philosopher, actor, psychologist and musician. Through his many guises he creates works brimming with references from art history, films and literature, invariably with a cyclical or roving narrative. With considerable humour, wit and intelligence, Graham continues to ask the question - what does it mean to consider yourself an artist today? Spanning BALTIC’s two largest galleries, the exhibition will include several installations of film and video and a collection of works inspired by literature and reading, covering more than two decades. Developed in close collaboration with the artist, this exhibition also includes new works and a large selection of his signature immersive light-box photographs, including the group The Four Seasons. These striking, complex images document suspended moments in time, mostly involving a lone Graham in the style of another character assumed or taken from history. Rodney Graham: That's Not Me exhibition and events programme at BALTIC is supported by the High Commission of Canada in the UK and Phil Lind

Rodney Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada in 1949. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1971 and lives and works in Vancouver.

Rodney Graham works across various disciplines including photography, film, performance and sculpture and is often associated with the Vancouver School. The diversity of the mediums he uses is also reflected in the multiple cultural, historical, literary and philosophic references he layers within his work. Rodney Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada in 1949. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1971 and lives and works in Vancouver. Subscribe for weekly films about art: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=tate

Born in New York in 1971, lives and works in Vancouver. Since 2001 Adad Hannah has been working on his series Stills consisting of silent videos that exist at the intersection of performance, photography, and video. Based on the 19th-century practice of tableaux vivants , Hannah’s videos, photographs, and installations...

Border Crossings is a cultural magazine edited and published in Winnipeg. A local, international magazine, it is now in its 35th year of continuous publication. Edited by Meeka Walsh, it investigates contemporary culture through a combination of articles, reviews, interviews and portfolios of photographs and drawings.

Andrea Kastner Art. Andrea Kastner is a Canadian painter whose work focuses on the overlooked corners of urban spaces and the sacred nature of rejected things.

Andrea Kastner The Cube January 17 to March 22, 2014 Curated by Kamloops Art Gallery, Craig Willms Andrea Kastner is a Kamloops-based artist. Her practice explores the presence of the unseen, both in her physical surroundings and in the human psyche. Previous bodies of work have included archeolo

July 5, 2018

Did you enjoy our online screening of our AGH Film Festival documentary favourite, Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint? Join Melissa Bennett, AGH Curator of Contemporary Art, in conversation with Andrea Kastner, contemporary painter. Kastner (formerly a Hamilton artist, now living in Binghamton, NY) and Bennett will discuss the film in light of contemporary painting practices. This 30-minute discussion will be followed by a live Q&A on Instagram on April 23, 2020! Head over to @at_theagh to watch at 4:30PM!

Video interview with artist Ann Kipling to accompany the exhibition, Ann Kipling: The Falkland Drawings, a thirty-five-year survey, at the Kelowna Art Gallery, March 22 to June 15, 2014. Kelowna, BC, Canada

Ann Kipling describes her drawing process and discusses her work.

On the occasion of the exhibition Ann Kipling: Duration, currently on view at MSG, Landon Mackenzie, Ian Thom and Nancy Tousley share their in-depth knowledge and unique perspectives on the significance of the artist’s decades-long career. The discussion will consider Kipling’s ongoing process-driven practice in light of other contemporary work in BC and Canada. The conversation was be moderated by MSG director Robert Kardosh.

Germaine Koh work

Join us as the Art Now! Speakers' Series welcomes Germaine Koh for an online lecture. Germaine Koh (http://germainekoh.com) is an internationally active artist and curator based in Vancouver, on the ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Her work adapts familiar objects to create situations that look at the significance of everyday actions and common spaces, and which encourage connections between people, technology, and natural systems. Her current projects include Home Made Home (http://homemadehome.ca), an initiative to build and advocate for alternative forms of housing, and League (http://league-league.org), a participatory project using play as a form of creative practice. From 2018 to 2020 she was the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence, and beginning in 2021 she is scheduled to be the next Koerner Distinguished Artist in Residence at the University of British Columbia. Her exhibition history includes the BALTIC Centre, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Para/Site Art Space, Frankfurter Kunstverein, The Power Plant, The British Museum, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Plug In ICA, Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Liverpool, Sydney and Montreal biennials. She has received the Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award and been shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. The Art Now Speakers’ Series is a component of ongoing academic offerings in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. The Fall 2020 Art Now Speakers' Series will be offered online, via Zoom Webinar. Links to attend the session and a full list of speakers can be found on the Department of Visual Arts Website at: https://www.uwo.ca/visarts/speakers.html All lectures are free and open to the public. This series is generously supported by The Faculty of Arts and Humanities.