Conversation with Weiyi Chang and Lisa Myers

Tuesday, October 8 at 12:30 pm (online)

Please join us for an online conversation between guest curator Weiyi Chang and Lisa Myers, an artist and curator based in Toronto and Port Severn and a member of Beausoleil First Nation. Myers has worked with anthocyanin pigment from blueberries in printmaking and in her stop-motion animation. Her participatory performances involve sharing berries and other food items in social gatherings, reflecting on the value found in place and displacement; straining and absorbing. Recently, her artistic practice has expanded into audio and augmented reality projects that draw attention to the histories of the land, dislocation and gentrification. Through close attention to Myers’s practice, this conversation will allow us to reflect on themes and concerns articulated in An Opulence of Squander, currently on view at the Belkin.
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Artist Talk with Caroline Delétoille

Wednesday, October 16 at 3 pm

As part of Quantum Studio, artist-in-residence Caroline Delétoille will discuss her collaborative partnerships with scientists and engineers while embedded at UBC's Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. Delétoille will address her studio and research practices and share some initial insights about "Quantum Sensation," a project initiated in 2023 in close collaboration with a physicist and philosopher and the focus of her residency at UBC. This talk is part of Ars Scientia, a larger research initiative which seeks to foster knowledge exchange across the arts, sciences and pedagogies.
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New Publications at the Belkin

We are thrilled to announce two new publications at the gallery! Forecast marks the close of Holly Schmidt’s artist residency at the Belkin and centres on her series of short poetic texts that use the language of weather reporting to speculate on collective responses to environmental changes. Laiwan: Traces, Erasures, Resists follows Laiwan's 2022 exhibition and includes interviews and essays that unfold this critical practice. We will launch both of these officially in the new year with readings and celebration with the artists, but in the meantime, they are available for purchase at the gallery and on our website.

UPCOMING IN NOVEMBER

Conversation with Weiyi Chang and Camille Georgeson-Usher

Tuesday, November 5 at 12:30 pm (online)

Join curator Weiyi Chang and artist Camille Georgeson-Usher for an online conversation that aims to decentre and unsettle the logic of perpetual growth by examining alternative approaches to human-planetary relations within the context of the exhibition An Opulence of Squander. Part of Of Other Earths, this online conversation series looks to recuperating forgotten, suppressed and abandoned histories to reconsider capitalist and colonial relationships to the planet and its inhabitants.
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Symposium: Difficult Kinship

Friday, November 22 at 3 pm
Green College Coach House, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC

Join us for an afternoon symposium responding to That Directionless Light of the Future: Rediscovering Russell FitzGerald, an exhibition which grapples with a difficult and overlooked figure, exploring how the most idiosyncratic artists can crack open familiar historical narratives. We invite you to join Jon Davies, Nalo Hopkinson and Jamie Parra in an experiment in thinking about this exhibition together, to consider the different contextual forces at play from mysticism and intoxication to poetry and queer bohemian networks to Harlem jazz and the long history of America’s racial fantasies. We are interested in performing a pedagogical model of speculation and “unknowing,” and to consider the value of anti-heroic “bad kin” and “difficult kinship” (to quote queer historian Jennifer V. Evans) in our current moment.
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