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Exhibition → 13 JAN – 16 APR

The Willful Plot

The Willful Plot brings together artists’ practices to expand the notion of the garden as a site of tension between wild and cultivated, temporal and perpetual, public and private, sovereign and colonized. Here, the garden is considered by the artists not only as a delineated patch of earth, but as a story and a will to drive that story to complicate the way in which cultures and individuals see themselves in relation to ecology, sociality, belief and possibility. It is an opportunity to look at human relationships with land, flora, fauna and their interrelatedness. In its willfulness, the resistance garden is a counter-site, a heterotopia for alternative cultivation and potential transformation.

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News → 16 Mar 2023

Careers: Student Opportunities Summer 2023

The Belkin is now accepting applications for summer Work Learn student positions.

News → 20 Jan 2023

Works from the Collection: Charmian Johnson

In this release of Works from the Collection, Jay Pahre considers work by Charmian Johnson in The Willful Plot exhibition.

News → 08 Dec 2022

Outdoor Art: Winter 2022

In this edition of the Outdoor Art newsletter, we consider the ways in which artists’ practices are grappling with the politics of public space from both a local and global perspective. Through connections between two public art projects currently underway on the UBC campus with those being featured in the…

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