Curating in Front of a Local Backdrop a talk by Nicolaus Schafhausen, will be presented as part of the Curatorial Lecture Series. Nicolaus Schafhausen is Artistic and Managing Director of Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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A symposium on January 15-16, 2010 to mark the opening of Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of ̣Ḳi-̣ḳe-in at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia
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Fear in the Transnational Community: A Response by Artists and Curators will examine issues and commentators who use language specific to the arts to comment on and demonstrate a major shift in perspectives taking place in the new millennium.
The talk will be concluded by an examination of Merali’s recent exhibition at the Kunsthalle Brot, Vienna, The Promise of Loss, An Index of Contemporary Iran.
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“Notes towards documenta (13)” will focus on the nature and meaning of documenta, its history and future. documenta (13) is being developed from an archeological perspective, according to which every cultural project that moves forward must be grounded in a backward gaze, in an ecological relationship to the past. How was the present imagined in the second half of the 20th century and what was considered urgent at each successive edition of the exhibition?
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We are pleased to announce a panel discussion with curator Bob Nickas and artists Alan Belcher and Jennifer Bolande. Moderated by artist Gil Blank. Beyond a carrier of an uninterrupted image, what else can a photograph be? This question is at the centre of an exhibition curated for Presentation House Gallery by New York-based independent critic and curator Bob Nickas…
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In collaboration with the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, the Museum of Anthropology, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, and the Faculty of Arts, the UBC Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Barbara Fischer as part of their ongoing series of lectures on contemporary curatorial practice.
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Art historian, critic, and curator, Julian Myers will discuss “riot shows,” rock concerts when the audience actively intervenes in the performance, forcing the band to end the show unexpectedly.
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In conjunction with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery’s exhibition Idyll, artists Audrey Capel Doray and Joan Balzar held a discussion about their work and their careers, which have spanned almost five decades.
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In partnership with Vancity Theatre at the Vancouver International Film Centre, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery presented a special night of film screenings related to the exhibition Idyll. On the 40th anniversary of May 1968, the Belkin Art Gallery presented three exhibitions – as well as works from our collection and documents from our archive – that address aspects of that revolutionary decade.
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In 2008 the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery presented a dynamic five-part lecture series featuring renowned international scholars and curators. The series was intended to illuminate the challenges and critical issues that define the practice of curating. This project eventually transformed in to the Curatorial Lecture Series as part of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery’s on-going commitment to organize lectures on contemporary curatorial practice.
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