Responses to the Collection is an ongoing series that invites a broad range of guest contributors to select work from the Outdoor Art Collection as subjects for reflection and response. Exploring how the UBC campus can be a fruitful place for experimentation and learning, Temporary Collective have come together to perform through movement and rhythmic gestures, responses to Asiatic Head by Otto Fischer-Credo (1958/1977) and The Shadow by Esther Shalev-Gerz (2018). The collective of 10 artists, attempts to dialogue with these two very different artworks by generating an embodied engagement with site, materiality and history.
Temporary Collective evolved out of a performance course taught by Randy Lee Cutler in the spring of 2018 at Emily Carr University. Members of the collective includes Tianna Barton, Fadwa Bouziane, Keely Bruce, Randy Lee Cutler, Matthew Dillon, Maya Gauvin, Mimi Gonzalez Guerra, Gillian Haigh, Caroline Lee and Brigitte Patenaude.
Untitled I (Asiatic Head)
Friday January 25 at 2 pm, rain or shine.
The performance will take place at the artwork located behind the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the end of the trellis walkway between the Lasserre Building and the School of Music.
Untitled II (The Shadow)
Friday February 8 at noon, rain or shine.
The performance will take place at the artwork located on University Commons Plaza in front of The Nest.
Photo (above): Tianna Barton.
Temporary Collective, Untitled II (The Shadow), 2019. Performance response to Esther Shalev-Gerz’s The Shadow (2018), February 8, 2019 at the University of British Columbia. Photo: Barbara Cole.
Temporary Collective, Untitled II (The Shadow), 2019. Performance response to Esther Shalev-Gerz’s The Shadow (2018), February 8, 2019 at the University of British Columbia. Photo: Michael R. Barrick.
Temporary Collective, Untitled I (Asiatic Head), 2019. Performance response to Otto Fischer-Credo’s Asiatic Head (1958/1977), January 25, 2019 at the University of British Columbia. Photo: Karen Zalamea.
