colourschool March postcard

colourschool and Post Autonomy Debate with David Goldenberg | Sat Mar 1 | noon

For this event, a video/skype link to London connects Post Autonomy’s David Goldenberg with colourschool participants, who discuss and debate the limits of participatory practices.

http://colourschool.org/events/colourschool-and-pa

Resisting the University | Wed Mar 5 | 12-2 pm

colourschool attends the UBC Conference “Resisting the University,” presenting in the 12-2 pm session, “Unschooling Oppression: Critical Pedagogy and Alternative Models of Education” at the Student Union Building (UBC) Room 205.

http://colourschool.org/events/open-hours-10

White Reading Group with Eryne Donahue | Wed Mar 5 | 7 pm

In this session, the group continues discussing excerpts from Chapter 2: Coloured white, not coloured.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/white-reading-group-mar

Brown Bag Lunch Discussion with Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, Stefan Römer | Fri Mar 7 | 4 pm

colourschool’s Brown Bag events comprise a series of lunch time discussions focused on a given subject or range of subjects. Participants may bring their lunch or take a brown bag provided by colourschool.

For this session, the artists discuss the project Differentiated Neighbourhoods of New Belgrade, which they participated in. The project explores different connotations of the term neighbourhood, in the vocabulary of its urban, architectural, and social context, as well as analyzes the historical development and actual dynamics of urban transformations of New Belgrade neighbourhoods.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/brown-bag-lunch-discussion-with-sabine-bitter-helmut-weber-and-s

Filling in a White Box with Heidi Nagtegaal | Mon Mar 10, 17, 31 | 4 pm

Using textile traditions, knitting, and crocheting, Heidi makes installations and sculptures that mix imagery, absurdity, and tradition. A recent project, Masks for Disappearing, combines fashion and theft, social awkwardness and racial politics by knitting balaclavas in white, tailored to different social uses. In another work, needles are wrapped in rainbow, crotched tubes that cover 3cc syringes, “cozying” a very loaded, dangerous, and pokey object.

Nagtegaal puts into play potential forms and functions of specific materials within colourschool’s space during her research. Visitors are welcome and encouraged to stop by during the course of her research project, which will culminate in… something.

http://colourschool.org/events/filling-in-a-white-box-5

Colour Exchanges: Johan Lundh interviews Germaine Koh | Tues Mar 11 | 7 pm

In place of the artist talk, colourschool presents an ongoing series of artist interviews conducted by Johan Lundh, whose practice adopts the “art of conversation” as a starting point for more dynamic explorations. Johan interviews Germaine Koh for this session.

Koh’s conceptually generated work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects, and common places. Her recent schedule has included shows at the BALTIC Centre (Newcastle), De Appel (Amsterdam), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Ottawa Art Gallery, and le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Bloomberg SPACE (London), the Seoul Museum of Art, Artspace (Sydney), The British Museum (London), The Power Plant (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

http://colourschool.org/events/colour-exchanges-interiew-with-germaine-koh

Open Hours | Wed Mar 12,19, 26 | noon to 4 pm

colourschool’s doors are open for research, reading, and screening.

Everyone is welcome to stop by Wednesdays, noon to 4pm or by appointment.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/open-hours

D&G Reading Group or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours? with Vytas Narusevicius | Tue Mar 18 | 7 pm

colourschool’s D&G Reading Group regularly meets to read and discuss texts from One Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles Deleuze’s and Felix Guattari’s landmark work, which continues to challenge the terms of debate in various disciplines including philosophy, psychology, culture, politics, economics, and art among other fields.

During D&G meetings participants receive excerpts to read and discuss as a group. In addition, all are welcome and encouraged to bring sections to share. For this meeting, we continue our discussion of Chapter 1: Rhizome.

Sipping “Tequilera” en Fuego: An Evening of Astrid Hadad with Francisco Granados Samayoa | Tue Mar 25 | 7 pm

According to Tim Weiner of the New York Times, Astrid Hadad is “outraged” and “outrageous” and the artist behind what “could be one of the most provocative stage acts since the Weimar Republic was in bloom.” As a diva-cum-performance artist extraordinaire, Hadad embodies and mixes the multiple facets of Mexico’s complex identity into performances and images that form a political cabaret, simultaneously embracing and skewering the heritage and stereotypes that both dignify and haunt Mexican national identity.

For this colourschool event, Francisco Granados Samayoa presents videos of Hadad’s videos and discusses them in relation to his own memories, practice, and politics.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/sipping-tequilera-en-fuego-an-evening-of-astrid-hadad

colourschool is located @ [IDS] ECIAD,1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3R9 or online at www.colourschool.org
Email: info@colourschool.org

colourschool is a school within a school dedicated to the speculative research and exploration of five colours: black, white, brown, yellow, and red. Providing a free and open space for critical investigations of colour, identity, artmaking, and knowledge production, colourschool attempts to develop a collaborative colour consciousness through a variety of events including reading groups, film screenings, listening labs, interviews, roundtable discussions, brown bag lunches, performances, and installations among other activities. All are welcome.