Shelly Rosenblum is Curator of Academic Programs at the Belkin. Inaugurating this position at the Belkin, Rosenblum’s role is to develop programs that increase myriad forms of civic and academic engagement at UBC, the wider Vancouver community and beyond. Rosenblum received her PhD at Brown University and has taught at Brown, Wesleyan and UBC. Her awards include fellowships from the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University and a multi-year Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of English, UBC. She was selected for the Summer Leadership Institute of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (2014). Her research interests include issues in contemporary art and museum theory, discourses of the Black Atlantic, critical theory, narrative and performativity. Her teaching covers the 17th to the 21st centuries. She remains active in professional associations related to academic museums and cultural studies, attending international conferences and workshops, and recently completing two terms (six years) on the Board of Directors at the Western Front, Vancouver, including serving as Board President. At UBC, Rosenblum is an Affiliate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
As part of the exhibition Mark Boulos, we are pleased to present a symposium exploring art and cinema.
Friday, December 3, 2:00 pm at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Room 260, 1961 East Mall, UBC
Free admission
2:00-2:15 pm
Scott Watson and Shelly Rosenblum
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
University of British Columbia
Opening Remarks
2:15-3:15 pm
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor of Art and Culture Studies
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
Radical acts of unfolding
3:15-4:15 pm
Nettie Wild
Canada Wild Productions
Film Production
University of British Columbia
Shooting for the contradictions: Finding real-life drama in documentary film. Can outside eyes reveal inside stories? Or betray them?
4:15-4:45 pm
Coffee Break
4:45-5:45 pm
Keynote Lecture
Trinh Minh-ha
Professor of Rhetoric and Gender and Women’s Studies
University of California Berkeley
Forces and Forms: “Where the Road is Alive”
Shelly Rosenblum is Curator of Academic Programs at the Belkin. Inaugurating this position at the Belkin, Rosenblum’s role is to develop programs that increase myriad forms of civic and academic engagement at UBC, the wider Vancouver community and beyond. Rosenblum received her PhD at Brown University and has taught at Brown, Wesleyan and UBC. Her awards include fellowships from the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University and a multi-year Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of English, UBC. She was selected for the Summer Leadership Institute of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (2014). Her research interests include issues in contemporary art and museum theory, discourses of the Black Atlantic, critical theory, narrative and performativity. Her teaching covers the 17th to the 21st centuries. She remains active in professional associations related to academic museums and cultural studies, attending international conferences and workshops, and recently completing two terms (six years) on the Board of Directors at the Western Front, Vancouver, including serving as Board President. At UBC, Rosenblum is an Affiliate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in North America of work by Amsterdam based, artist-filmmaker Mark Boulos. Boulos was trained as a documentary filmmaker and is now working on gallery installations. The exhibition features a new, three-channel, video work, No Permanent Address (2010) and production stills, the two-channel video work, All That is Solid Melts Into Air (2008) that was recently exhibited at the 6th Berlin Biennale and the single-channel video work, The Word Was God (2007).
[more]The subjects filmed by American-born Mark Boulos inhabit the realm of documentary, but he chooses to show his large-scale, multi-screen video installations in art venues and galleries. “To call a film ‘art’ is to release it from the demands of reportage and anthropology that otherwise burden documentaries,” Boulos says. This extensively illustrated catalogue considers three of Boulos’ most recent video installations, All That is Solid Melts into Air (featured in the Projects Gallery of MoMA, NY in 2012), The Word Was God and No Permanent Address. Boulos’ subjects include the revolutionary fervor, political militancy, sexual identity and religious ecstasy of radical organizations such as the Filipino revolutionary New People’s Army and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.
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