Everything This Changes is programming initiated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut the doors of galleries and many businesses while keeping most of us working at home.
The world we will find when all the restrictions on movement and gatherings are lifted might be very different than the one we left when we locked down in March 2020. Already, as the Himalayas can be seen from New Delhi for the first time in decades and fish swim in the clear waters of Venice’s canals, there is thinking that the pause in the frenetic world economy might lead to action on combatting the destruction of the planet’s ecology.
Many ways of doing things have been altered. Suddenly old habits must be confronted and new ways of doing things imagined. Systems and patterns of circulation are shifting. Old paths are closed off and may never reopen, while others are being forged.
Everything This Changes adds to the Belkin’s online presence as a platform for works of art, research projects, podcasts, interviews, conversations and events. One of our tasks is to explore new relationships and possibilities between embodiment, especially in social space, and the disembodied lives we lead on screen. This relationship has been the subject of critique and speculation since the invention of the telephone and radio. In what ways have artists and thinkers prepared us for thinking about the present crisis? Or to put it another way, how does the present crisis change the way we see and read?
Everything This Changes programming has been made possible with the support of the British Columbia Arts Council’s Arts and Culture Resilience Supplemental Award.
Audio content is available as a podcast via 
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- Bahar Mohazabnia, Belkin Public Programs Assistant, considers the 2022 Iranian protests as seen through Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber’s work, Yazd, Iran (2005), held in the Belkin collection Bahar Mohazabnia writes about the 2022 Iranian uprising as seen through Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber's work, Yazd, Iran (2005).
- Lisa Jackson, Savage (2009) We share this work by Lisa Jackson now in 2021 having learned of the heartbreaking and tragic discovery of the remains of 215 children buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
- Works from the Collection: Laiwan Laiwan writes, "Begun in 1987 investigating the questions, What is an image? What is a photograph?, she who had scanned the flower of the world... is an ongoing project where I collect flowers from the city I am showing in, placing the petals into slide mounts."
- Works from the Collection: Liz Magor Liz Magor talks about the process of creating Tent (1999).
- Works from the Collection: Audrey Capel Doray
- Works from the Collection: Rhoda Rosenfeld Rhoda Rosenfeld's work from the series Maps of the World (1977) is included in Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions.
- The Balcony as Agent of Reciprocity My grandparents lived on the top floor of a four story building in the periphery of Florence, just outside the old medieval walls. The neighbourhood was part of a city-wide postwar urbanization project. A series of anonymous-looking ochre apartment complexes with green shutters, dark red roofs and strings of balconies faced the interior courtyards. Each time we visited them, after having settled in, my brother and I were summoned by my grandmother onto the balcony, with a simple yet ambiguous: “Come here! Say hi!”
- Works from the Collection: Krista Belle Stewart Karen Zalamea talks about Krista Belle Stewart's two-channel video, Seraphine, Seraphine (2015).
- Alejandro A. Barbosa: Artist Conversation on Somatics of the Self as Citational Form
- Matthew Ballantyne: Stress Positions
- Jay Pahre: ecologies on the move Experimental writing and drawing by Jay Pahre as a part of his body of work Flipping the Island.
- Sam Kinsley: Act III. Sticks on sticks
- Nazanin Oghanian: Objects in My Imperfective Memories
- Rosamunde Bordo: The Relationship Without Images (the Denise File)
- Germaine Koh: Crowd Shyness In crown shyness, trees grow with distinct space between their crowns to avoid spreading pests, to avoid damaging their own fragile tips and to leave room for their peers. They make small, individual sacrifices for collective health.
- Outdoor Art Tour: Bird’s Eye, Bug’s Eye Have you seen a work of art from high above the ground or walked across one that's so huge you weren't aware of it? This handout for children and families shows how an artwork can look different depending on your point of view. There's an activity you can do at home or outside along with some perspective on Esther Shalev-Gerz’s The Shadow, an artwork on the UBC Vancouver campus. This handout was adapted from a tour created for Kids Take Over UBC in February 2020.
- Waking Hours: A Project Choreographed by Justine A. Chambers Chambers’s choreography organizes the sounds offered into an accompaniment for right now, intended to be streamed from this page in real time only. Waking Hours keeps us company, calls out to be with us, to return to the flesh, in the background of our day.
- Sonic Responses A series of performances that explore the sounds - and silence - of a now-quiet campus.
- BLACK LIVES MATTER: A Statement from the Belkin
- Curve-flattening and Bird Song: An Interview with Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens Lorna Brown talks with Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens about interspecies communication and ethics.
- Rock Gardens: Lisa Robertson and Yaniya Lee As part of the catalogue launch and symposium for Beginning with the Seventies, Lisa Robertson and Yaniya Lee engage in a performative offering.
- Works from the Collection: Roy Arden Scott Watson considers Roy Arden's Komagata Maru as the City of Vancouver marks May 23 as the Komagata Maru Day of Remembrance.
- Works from the Collection: Robert Steele David Steele chooses a work by his late father, Robert Steele, that holds deep resonance for him.
- Works from the Collection: David Horvitz Scott Watson looks at David Horvitz's 2017 For Kiyoko through the lens of the current crises.
- Holly Schmidt: Sensorial Walk Download and print the sensorial workshop Holly Schmidt devised for UBC mycology students and enjoy nature a little differently.
- Holly Schmidt: It All Started with a Cashew Students from UBC’s Department of Biology practice botanical drawing – and immersive observation – with artist in residence Holly Schmidt.
- Belkin Home Delivery Like most of the world right now, the Belkin is looking at the way we work and wondering how to move forward in this moment of unprecedented change. We are looking at the world through a different lens now – the texts we’ve read are no longer relevant in the same way; the ways we have been working will be forever changed. We’re asking ourselves, what will the art world look like when this is over? How does cultural work proceed when we move to virtual space? What is the status of our collective experience? How are artists imagining production and practice in their changed material conditions? What does intimacy look like? Until we can welcome you back in person, here are just a few ways to connect with us and share our common (and unique) responses to this moment.
- Works from the Collection: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Teresa Sudeyko talks about Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s 2001 House Burning.
- Works from the Collection: Kevin Schmidt
