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Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties
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Jamelie Hassan
At the Far Edge of Words

Since the 1960s, Jamelie Hassan’s work has been influenced by cultural politics and personal history. This is the first survey exhibition of her work and includes over two dozen paintings, drawings, photographs, multi-media installations, as well as the billboard—Because . . . there was and there wasn’t a city of Baghdad.

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Jamelie Hassan
Seek Knowledge Even Onto China

Installed at Walter C. Koerner Library at the University of British Columbia.

When Hassan was growing up in southwestern Ontario, her father often repeated a saying of the Prophet Muhammad: Seek knowledge even unto China. It promoted the importance of study, travel, and first hand experience in understanding the world. This saying is the basis for her text-based work…

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Douglas Coupland
Fight Club and Less Than Zero

In conjunction with the Media Transatlantic Conference at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (April 8 – 10, 2010), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Walter C. Koerner Library are pleased to exhibit work by Vancouver author and artist, Douglas Coupland.

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Breathless Days 1959 - 1960:
A Chronotropic Experiment

This exhibition of painting, photography, collage, and prints includes work from the public collections of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the private collections of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, and of Geoffrey Farmer. The works draw a constellation of ideas and aesthetic propositions from Vancouver, Cape Dorset, and the San Francisco art scenes circa 1959-1960, including Canadian abstract expressionism, early Inuit Art, and the Beat movement.

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Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ḳi-ḳe-in

Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ḳi-ḳe-in brings together for the first time, contemporary ceremonial curtains by Nuuchaanulth artist Ḳi-ḳe-in (Ron Hamilton) and historical curtains from museum and private collections in Canada and the United States.

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Judy Radul: World Rehearsal Court

World Rehearsal Court, a solo exhibition of new work by Vancouver artist Judy Radul is a large-scale media installation. This work draws on Radul’s research into the role of theatricality and new technologies in the court of law and it questions the distinctions between experience, testimony, reproduction, truth, and fiction that the law attempts to make distinct. World Rehearsal Court addresses the complexities of real-life experience that the court compresses into written record.

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Interrobang
UBC MASTER OF FINE ARTS GRADUATE EXHIBITION

Shea Allan-McCachen, Scott Billings, Krista Dragomer, Julio López, Jen Weih

An exhibition of work by the 2009 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Interrobang. A nonstandard English-language punctuation mark, the interrobang combines the function of a question mark and an exclamation point. A connection and bonding between different characters, interrobang, the exhibition, presents divergent work by five emerging artists in video, sound, sculpture, drawing, painting and new media.

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Tonel
Las partes que más me sudan cuando me pongo nervioso
[The Parts of Me that Sweat the Most When I Get Nervous]

Antonio Eligio Fernández, known as Tonel , is an artist, scholar, critic, and curator. He has worked extensively in Cuba, Latin America, Europe, Canada and the United States. His early formation as an artist included regular publication of his drawings and cartoons, notably in DDT, a bi-weekly humour magazine published in Cuba in the 1970s. His articles and essays on Cuban and Latin American contemporary art have been published regularly in Cuba and elsewhere.

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Jack Shadbolt: Underpinnings
Works on Paper from the Collection

Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) is one of Canada’s most important artists. He is know for his paintings and murals that draw from his personal experiences and from the social and political collisions that have taken place in British Columbia’s history…

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Action - Camera: Beijing Performance Photography

The early 1990s spawned a new avant-garde movement in China that forged explosive creative innovation in a rapidly changing society. This collection of provocative images delves into the trajectory of performance photography, from its beginnings of documenting underground, live performance in Beijing to its current practice that involves staging events specifically for the camera.

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Lorna Brown: Threshold (cont.)

Threshold (cont.) is part of on ongoing inquiry into the topic of boredom that Brown began in 2000. Within various fields of research, boredom has been written about in diverse ways: as a condition that is dangerous to society, a precursor to positive radical change, and the result of becoming overwhelmed by tedious, repetitive activity.

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David Claerbout

David Claerbout draws on the conventions of film, photography, and digital media, challenging boundaries by combining traditional technologies in the production of his works.

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The Sooner the Better Late than Never
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate exhibition

Raymond Boisjoly, Melanie Bond, Natalie Doonan,
Jesse Gray, Joshua Hite, Ryan Peter

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Idyll: Three Exhibitions

Audrey Capel Doray Electronic Seascape
Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob Wildflowers of Manitoba
Holly Ward Radical Rupture

On the 40th anniversary of May 1968, the Belkin Art Gallery presents three exhibitions that address aspects of that revolutionary decade.

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eXponential Future

Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger, Elizabeth Zvonar

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