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April 18th at Gibsone Jessop Gallery in Toronto

The Rising Tide investigates China’s meteoric march toward the future through the work of some of its most talented emerging artists, whose work reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena.

www.therisingtidefilm.com

http://www.bettermail.ca/m/133/14760/63fd9228dca46903f947274b900ace78

Although artists in rapidly developing China enjoy more freedom than they ever have before, they also face problems they never anticipated. In Robert Adanto’s documentary The Rising Tide, performance and video artist Chen Quilin, anime-inspired video artist Cao Fei, conceptual photographer Wang Qingsong, and a wide array of other Chinese artists speak of the spiritual and intellectual dilemmas they face in a society where almost everything is in constant flux. Adanto’s surprisingly grim film highlights both the vitality and urgency of China’s burgeoning new culture while allowing its subjects to speak of the darker and more painful aspects of change. [Info Source]

– Gerry Mak for Flavorpill

Eric Deis, “Laundry”, 46″ x 50″, Archival Pigment Print.

Eric Deis and Jeremy Isao Speier
“Salvage”
April 4 – 26, 2008
Elissa Cristall Gallery

Reception Friday April 4, 6 pm - 9 pm

VANCOUVER, BC — Elissa Cristall Gallery is pleased to present “Salvage” an exhibition featuring Vancouver artists Eric Deis and Jeremy Isao Speier. The exhibition will run from April 4 to 26, 2008.

Salvage is an exhibition of photography and kinetic sculpture by Vancouver artists Eric Deis and Jeremy Isao Speier. Through two distinct styles and media, these artists reconnect the discrete fragments of urban living to render an extraordinary view of the city’s unwritten histories. Deis’ large-scale photographs immerse the viewer into a vivid vista of colour and detail of urban life. Speier’s fragments extracted from urban life are rebuilt and re-contextualized in his dynamic sculptures.

Through contemporary landscape photography, Deis’ images critically examine how we relate to the place and time in which we live and the impact we as humans have on our environment. In “Laundry”, Deis captures the mental state of Vancouver’s Downtown East-side with an image of a four-storey alder tree conspicuously covered in articles of clothing.

Speier uses obsolete and self-made technology, narratives, images and visual models to transform manufactured objects into kinetic sculpture. Speier developed his new series of work using hand-made electronic circuits, a 556/Logic timer-chip (the brain) and a relay (magneto-switch), during his recent residency at the Western Front.

Eric Deis is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Emily Carr Institute. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego (M.F.A.) and Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver. His artwork has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He is a recipient of the 2007 Visual Art Development Award from the Vancouver Foundation.

Jeremy Isao Speier, a Japanese-Canadian, is a graduate of Emily Carr College of Art & Design. His work has been exhibited in Canada in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He is a three-time award recipient of the Filmmakers Assistance Program from the National Film Board of Canada.

Contact:
Elissa Cristall Gallery
2245 Granville Street
Vancouver BC
V6H 3G1
604.730.9611
http://www.cristallgallery.com

Podesva and McConchie, Emotional Google Index (2007-08)

The Helen Pitt Gallery presents

Google Emotional Index (GEI)
A web-based artwork by Kristina Lee Podesva and Alan McConchie

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Beverages served.

The Helen Pitt Gallery artist-run centre is pleased to present GOOGLE EMOTIONAL INDEX as the first of our year-long series of web-based artworks. This interactive project utizilizes and alters the Google image search engine in a subtle act of co-option to provide an ever-evolving database of images associated with the full spectrum of human emotion.

Accessible through our web-site, www.helenpittgallery.org, the GEI interface allows the participant to conduct searches for words indexing emotions far beyond our more general categories—happy, sad, angry or depressed—to help locate points of personal reflection. GEI offers the opportunity for users to explore a vast, real-time archive of individual or group images for discussion, experimentation, intervention and play As a vast, real-time image archive,

While GEI works to expand our sometimes narrow understanding of human emotional states—and highlight the highly abstract, linguistic limitations that allow us to both communicate and understand this nebulous terrain—it also challenges our ideas of the role that the image, pictorial representation, plays in our notions of emotional understanding. As GEI quickly reveals, it is these very representations that compel users to measure and compare their own feelings against what appears in the index.

Within the medium and context of the web, Google Emotional Index specifically draws a contrast between the cacophony of diverse and conflicting representations of emotion online and the narrowing of information through a single channel, specifically the Google search engine. In cataloging images from a variety of sources according to a coherent theme, GEI, among other things, proposes questions about the relationships between emotional understanding, communication, memory and representation—not to the mention the sometimes impersonal structures of categorization that underpin our most personal emotive experiences.

Kristina Lee Podesva is an artist, writer, and curator based in Vancouver, Canada. She is the founder of colourschool, a free school within a school dedicated to the speculative and collaborative study of five colours (white, black, red, yellow, and brown) and cofounder of Cornershop Projects, an open framework for the examination of the relationship between art and economic transactions. In between things, she is Assistant Editor at the Fillip Review.

Alan McConchie is a MSc student in the department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His current research explores the critical and emancipatory potential of web mashups and mapping on the internet. He is the author of the popular linguistic mapsite PopVsSoda.com.

Helen Pitt Gallery
#102-148 Alexander Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6A 1B5
http://helenpittgallery.org
Contact: Lance Blomgren, Director/Curator

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.

PROCESS AS WORK:
Roy Kiyooka, Damian Moppett, Jerry Pethick, Ian Wallace

Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
29 February – 29 March 2008
Opening Friday 29 February, 7 – 9pm

Catriona Jeffries is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition of work by Roy Kiyooka, Damian Moppett, Jerry Pethick and Ian Wallace. Process as Work presents a significant body of work by each artist, calling attention to the unique working processes that mark their practices. The work in this exhibition is representative of the four artists’ commitment to continuous and rigorous production and their constant manipulation of ideas, often through serial works. The materiality of the artist’s working process in some cases manifests itself as studies for final works, but congruously exists as completed works which are continually being developed upon through the use of reoccurring motifs and an ever-present referencing between works. The exhibition positions the processes of this inter-generational group of artists in relation to one another and in relation to a broader context of international discourse about approaches to sculpture, painting and photography.

In a complete body of painting/collage works on paper by Ian Wallace from his New York series, created between 1993 and 2001 and never exhibited before, we see Wallace working towards his large format New York photo-monochrome paintings of 2001, from which Jazz Street II will be shown here. Wallace and Pethick have both been intensely interested in the motif of the intersection throughout their practices. Since the 1970s Wallace has explored the social theatre of urban intersections through the juxtaposition of the painted monochrome and photographs which focus on the meeting point of dynamic urban relations: pedestrians, traffic, signage and architecture. In the New York series, Wallace situates the history of the jazz scene in New York on the Broadway Boogie Woogie strip while recalling the minimalism of Mondrian. In what Wallace has termed a practice of “melancholic modernism,” there is a tension between the everyday scenes of the photograph and the absence of referential subject in the monochrome, wherein the white lines of the crosswalk and the painted canvas interplay as real and abstract space.

For Jerry Pethick, the intersection was a meeting point of optical perception. He referenced the intersection in numerous works, pointing to the influence of technology on visual perception through the use of lenses and television tubes as optical devices and recording the occurrence of exes in nature, such as the outgrowth of a tree branch from a tree trunk. Pethick’s opposing coloured vinyl tape markings in the wall installation Intersection, 1971, are the beginning of a series of experiments which he continued to develop in his explorations of holographic space and large format array photographs. The intersecting marks appear again in a series of drawings and sculptural collages from 1965 and culminate in the array camera he created in the 1980s. This camera enabled Pethick to take multiple images of one shot and to create a prolific series of photographic arrays which investigated the intersection of points as a means for calling attention to the way we perceive what we are seeing. This exhibition of a significant body of Jerry Pethick’s work anticipates an important forthcoming solo exhibition at the Catriona Jeffries Gallery to be presented in 2008.

Roy Kiyooka also continually embarked on experiments which led one work into the next, through performance, film and photography. Kiyooka’s work is situated in the everyday. Documenting a road trip he took with students to the interior of British Columbia in 1977 and his stay in a hotel room in Mission, B.C. in 1978, he intertwines poetry and symbolism within these localized moments from daily life, producing scenes which question notions of identity and place. Kiyooka’s subjective snapshots of family and friends configured in grid formats attenuate distinctions between amateur and professional, art and non-art; they are inscribed with a tension between the universality of modernism and the radicalism of the avant-garde. In a series of photographs in which the mask is the main character, there is a relationship to earth art practices through the marking and staging of performances in the snow. At the same time, Kiyooka’s use of multiple still images imparts a cinematic quality which links to his original performative actions and film works.

In Damian Moppett’s ongoing series of drawings and watercolours he works through sculptural forms using one dimensional strategies, drawing attention to the constant interplay between the two. Moppett probes notions of corrupted ideas and imprecision, emphasizing process, not the end product. In his configurations, he plays with our expectation of resolve through the production of studies that are also complete works in themselves, continually disrupting distinctions between high and low art. Recalling Wallace’s photographs taken in his studio, Moppett offers up the messes of his working environment in his drawings, recording the process of working towards his modernist assemblage sculptures, one of which will be presented in the exhibition.

For further information please contact Catriona Jeffries or Charo Neville at (01) 604.736.1554

Forthcoming exhibitions: Germaine Koh: 11 April – 10 May, 2008 Ron Terada: 23 May – 28 June, 2008 Art Basel 39: 4 – 8 June, 2008

“By the Train Window” 2008 Oil and Casein on Canvas on Board 24 x 24 in.

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Eric Le Ménédeu
ACROSS
New Paintings
March 1 –22, 2008

On Saturday, March 1st, the Mira Godard Gallery opens an exhibition of new landscape paintings by Éric Le Ménédeu. The artist will be in attendance.

Eric Le Ménédeu was born in Paris, France in 1962. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), he has lived and worked in Montreal since 1994. In 2001, he received RBC Investment’s Third Annual Canadian Painting Competition Award for Eastern Canada.
Le Ménédeu’s work can be found in important corporate collections including Alcan, Gildan, RBC Financial Group, Colart Collection, as well as numerous private collections.

“When I travel, especially when I return to France where I spent my childhood, I photograph the landscape – often without stopping, in passing. Later, in my studio, I paint inspired by these images. Nearly immobile, I paint these ideas of passage. I paint here, the other country over there. I paint now what formed me yesterday. I look at the other side. Once again, I move across the space and time that separate me from my memories.”
-Éric Le Ménédeu

For further information, please contact the gallery at (416) 964-8197, via e-mail at godard@godardgallery.com, or visit our web site:

http://www.godardgallery.com

colourschool February postcard

Filling in a White Box | Mon Feb 4,11, 25 | 4:30 pm

For the month of February, Heidi Nagtegaal conducts a series of studies on how to fill a white box. Using textile traditions, knitting, and crotcheting, 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 project, which will culminate in… something.

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

D&G Reading Group or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours? | Tue Feb 5 | 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.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/dg-reading-group-3

Open Hours | Wed Feb 6,13, 27 | 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

Brown Bag Lunch with Brendan Fernandes | Fri Feb 8 | 12:30 to 2 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, New York and Toronto-based artist Brendan Fernandes speaks about his recent work, which deals with notions of identity through post colonial discourse.

Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He earned his MFA (2005) from The University of Western Ontario and his BFA (2002) from York University in Canada. Accolades include: grants from The Ontario and Canada Councils for the Arts including the International Residency in Trinidad and Tobago. He has exhibited across Canada and has recently shown in the Western New York Biennial through The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Fernandes completed the Whitney Independent Study Program (2007), and is participating in The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Work Space Residency program. He also holds the position of Artist in Residence at The School of Visual Arts, NY, in the graduate program for computer arts.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/brown-bag-lunch-

Listening Lab: Indians, Cavemen, and Ancient Civilizations with Raymond Boisjoly | Tues | Feb 12 | 7 pm

A look at various ways artists have dealt with the past and primordial origins within popular music. The effect is both satirical and earnest in turn, from the Cramps silly fun to the anger of Eugene McDaniels. This listening lab spans notions of historic time in a short sweep starting up in the 20th century. Guests are invited to bring song and sound files, titles, and videos for collective aural enjoyment.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/indians-cavemen-and-ancient-civilizations-pop-musics-mythic-past

White Reading Group with Eryne Donahue | Sat | Feb 16 | 1 pm

Taking Richard Dyer’s White as its object of study, the white reading group meets to discuss Dyer’s work, which traces representations of whiteness in Western visual culture through photography, fine art, cinema, television, and advertising.

In this session, the group continues discussing excerpts from Chapter 2: Coloured white, not coloured. Note that participants are not required to read the text before meeting as copies of the text are available during the session and are read during the meeting.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/white-reading-group-4

Colour Exchanges: Johan Lundh interviews Nathalie Melikian | Mon | Feb 25 | 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 Lundh interviews Vancouver and Malmo-based artist Nathalie Melikian for this session.

Since the late 1990s, Melikian has been creating videos in which she calls into question and analyzes the narrative structures of various film genres. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the MuHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium, and the Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden, in 2002, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, the Centre pour l’image contemporaine Saint-Gervais Genève, Switzerland, and the IASPIS, Sweden, in 1999. She has also participated in a number of group shows in Canada and in Europe, including Shadows of Productions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2004, Thriller at the Edmonton Art Gallery in 2004, and Melodrama at the Centro José Guerrero in Grenada and at the MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain, in 2003.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/colour-exchanges-interview-with-nathalie-melikian

An Open Studio in Two Parts with Heather Keung | Tues & Wed | Feb 26 & Feb 27

colourschool and Western Front Media Arts co-present:
Researcher-in-Residence, Heather Keung

Keung will be taking a two-pronged approach to her research in Vancouver. First, in Part One (Tue, Feb 26, at 7 pm), she will be developing concepts and execution plans for two new video series: The Little Things and The Power Of Scale. Her body of work and these new projects will be presented in the form of an in-progress presentation/artist talk.

In Part Two (Wed, Feb 27, noon to 4 pm), Keung will be conducting studio visits with Vancouver-based artists for media/installation presentations at the Reel Asian International Film Festival (Toronto, November 2008). Interested parties are encouraged to arrange times in advance by contacting Heather Keung directly at programming@reelasian.com.

Keung’s residency at Western Front Media Arts takes place from February 18, 2008 – February 29, 2008.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/an-open-studio-in-two-parts-part-one-artists-presentaion

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.

The Lab Sessions 2.0 - Pants And Tie Performing (Photo Credit: Darren Wong)

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Lab Sessions are a series of themed interactive art parties hosted and curated by Labspace Studio.

Labspace Studio is looking for artists to present their work(s) for the third installment of The Lab Sessions 3.0: Chemical Nation.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
“Chemical Nation” is a show about dependency and control. Submissions should explore the relationship between the human body and its dependency on chemicals and/or pharmaceuticals. Some examples: our dependency on pills to kill headaches, control pregnancy, ease anxiety, and induce sleep; our dependency on pesticides, plastics and synthetics.

In a Chemical Nation, are we in control of our bodies? What have we gained? What have we lost? What are you on?

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES:
-Painting, Collage, Photography, Drawing
-Video, New Media
-Writing, Spoken Word, Text
-Performance
-Dance
-Installation
-Music, Sound

Work will be displayed at Labspace Studio on the night of April 12, 2008. All artists are expected to financially support their projects. We will facilitate required technologies and assist in the installation process to the best of our ability. Keep in mind that The Lab Sessions is a party environment! Artwork may need to be tailored to suit the atmosphere.

To submit your work please email a brief description of your proposed piece(s) along with supporting/portfolio material of the described work or other work recently completed in a similar media to info@labspacestudio.com.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 23, 2008

For more details or to submit contact:
Labspace Studio
276 Carlaw Ave (Suite 202)
Toronto, ON
info@labspacestudio.com
www.labspacestudio.com

Image courtesy of Instant Coffee

Happy New Year!

Join us for another round of colourschool events beginning Monday, January 7, 2008.

Colour Exchanges: Johan Lundh interviews Instant Coffee | Mon Jan 7 | 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. In this session Johan interviews Instant Coffee, the service oriented artist collective based in Vancouver and Toronto. Recently Instant Coffee exhibited as part MDE07 encuentro internacional curated by Jose Roca, Casa del Encuentro, Medellin, Colombia; Instant Coffee Nooks + Everyone, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto; If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now, Henry Satellite, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle; and Instant Coffee Romance Posters, Art Metropole, Toronto.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/colour-exchanges-interview-with-instant-coffee

Open Hours | Wed Jan 9,16,23,30 | noon to 4 pm

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

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

http://www.colourschool.org/events/open-hours-2008-01-09

Black Narcissus Screening | Mon Jan 14 | 7 pm

colourschool presents the third and final film in a series of screenings dedicated to the work of British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger, who strategically employed colour as a vehicle for symbolism and expressionism. For this screening, the role of colour is discussed in relation to the film.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/emblack-narcissusem-screening

D&G Reading Group Or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours? with Vytas Narusevicius | Tues | Jan 15 | 7 pm

colourschool’s D&G Reading Group regularly meets to read and discuss texts from One Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the landmark work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, which has and continues to challenge the terms of debate in various disciplines including philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, politics, economics, and art among others. 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 the second meeting, Chapter 1: Rhizome will continue to be under discussion.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/dg-reading-group-2

The Art & Science of Air Tasting with Alex Grunenfelder & Janine MacLeod | Wed Jan 23 | 7 pm

Since 2002 the GarudaRoom Institute has been conducting research into the nature of olfaction and building an archive of air tasting data. GarudaRoom members Alex Grunenfelder and Janine Macleod will present an introduction to the practice and then invite visitors to participate in an air tasting session.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/air-tasting

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.

Gille Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, colourschool library

colourschool kicks off another round of events in December.

D&G Reading Group Or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours? with Vytas Narusevicius | Mon Dec 10 | 7 pm

The inaugural D&G reading group meets to discuss Deleuze and Guattari’s *One Thousand Plateaus*. Participants receive excerpts to read and consider as a group. All are welcome and encouraged to bring sections to share. For this session, Chapter 1: Rhizome is under discussion.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/dg-reading-group-1

Red Shoes Screening | Tues Dec 11 | 7 pm

colourschool presents the second in a series of screenings dedicated to the work of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger, who strategically employed colour as a vehicle for symbolism and expressionism. The role of the colour red is discussed in relation to the film.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/red-shoes-screening

Colour Exchanges: Artist Interviews with Johan Lundh | Wed Dec 12 | 7 pm | Guest Artist: Paul de Guzman

In place of the artist talk, colourschool presents an ongoing series of artist interviews conducted by Johan Lundh. Colour Exchanges follow a traditional interview format, but allow for and encourage participation by visitors in the midst of the conversation. Johann interviews Paul de Guzman for this session. Paul has previously participated in projects, exhibitions, and lectures at Dalhousie University’s School for Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie Art Gallery, The Power Plant, the Kenderdine Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Kinz Tillou + Feigen, Hofstra University Museum, apexart, Galerie Markus Richter, Galerie Dominique Fiat in Paris, and Transit – aktuele kunst.

http://www.colourschool.org/events/colour-exchanges-interview-with-paul-de-guzman

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.