Curated by Guadalupe Martinez and part of the Spill exhibition at the Belkin (September 3–December 1, 2019), this live research and performance component brings together activists, performance artists and educators whose practices consider relationships between the body, the land and forms of pedagogy that engage with healing, love and sustainability as core to their methodologies. Spill: Response performs an extension of artists Maria Thereza Alves, Nelly César, Anne Riley, Cease Wyss and Guadalupe Martinez’s artistic practices where histories of protection of the land across the Americas may intertwine and be animated in the present. Working with a group of selected students, the artists will present their research and share their knowledge at the Belkin and surrounding locations on the unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories.
Public Events
All events take place at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery except where noted.
Wednesday, October 16 at 2 pm: Performative Talk by Nelly César
Thursday, October 17 from 6 to 9 pm: Reception
Friday, October 18 at 7 pm at SFU Gallery: Artist talk with Maria Thereza Alves. This lecture is presented by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program and SFU Galleries as part of the Dialogues on Art and Publics Speaker Series and takes place at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, 149 West Hastings Street
Saturday, October 19 at 6 pm: Conversation with Teresa Montoya, Genevieve Robertson and Susan Schuppli
Sunday, October 20 at 6 pm: Conversation with Anne Riley and T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss
Tuesday, October 22 at 4 pm: Performance Intervention with Artists and Students
For the duration of Spill: Response – Embodying Research/Love Actions, the artists will work closely with a group of students from the UBC Departments of Art History, Visual Arts and Theory, Political Science and Forestry. Chipo Chipaziwa, Sai Di, Azul Duque, Stephanie Duran Castillo, Kyra Fey, Vanessa Grondin, Noelle Lee, Sebastián Lozano Cimadevilla, Jelena Markovic, Angelica Poversky, Dalia Shalabi, Devan Stewart, Aerial Sunday-Cardinal, David Wang and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora will gather in conversations, workshops, leisure time and reading groups where shared research and caring bonds will be nourished.
Guest artist Jay White, poet Rita Wong and streamkeeper John Preissl will contribute to the Spill: Response research process with a visit to Kwekwecnewtxw, the Coast Salish Watch House, and will guide a walk along the proposed Kinder Morgan Pipeline, noting the streams and rivers that are affected by proposed and ongoing construction. This performative walk, Walk the Line, was conceived in 2014 with Spill artist Genevieve Robertson.
Image (above): Guadalupe Martinez, CUERPO with performers Stephanie Bueno, Chipo Chipaziwa, Sai Di, Jelena Markovic, Seoyeon Park, Angelica Poversky, Dalia Shalabi and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaroa, 2019. Photo: Luciana Freire D’Anunciação.
Jelena Markovic and Stephanie Bueno performing con mi abuela / kod dede as part of Spill: Response at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Stephanie Duran Castillo performing as part of Spill: Response at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Aerial Sunday-Cardinal performing as part of Spill: Response at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Dalia Shalabi (left) and Vanessa Grondin (right) performing as part of Spill: Response at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Angelica Poversky performing as part of Spill: Response at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Devan Stewart performing Insanitation as part of Spill: Response at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Sebastián Lozano Cimadevilla performing Final Guess as part of Spill: Response at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
David Wang (left) and Chipo Chipaziwa (right) performing as part of Spill: Response at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Spill: Response participants guided by Jay White, Rita Wong, John Preissl and Jim Leyden on a walk of the proposed route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Friday, October 18, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Nelly Cesar, Lxs artistas del fin del mundx: Four reactionary love stories lit up by LEDs, Performance lecture as part of Spill: Response, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Nelly Cesar, Lxs artistas del fin del mundx: Four reactionary love stories lit up by LEDs, Performance lecture as part of Spill: Response, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Nelly Cesar, Lxs artistas del fin del mundx: Four reactionary love stories lit up by LEDs, Performance lecture as part of Spill: Response, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Nelly Cesar, Lxs artistas del fin del mundx: Four reactionary love stories lit up by LEDs, Performance lecture as part of Spill: Response, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Nelly Cesar, Lxs artistas del fin del mundx: Four reactionary love stories lit up by LEDs, Performance lecture as part of Spill: Response, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Workshop with Cease Wyss and Anne Riley at the UBC Farm, as part of Spill: Response, October 20, 2019
Photo: Guadalupe Martinez
Workshop with Cease Wyss and Anne Riley at the UBC Farm, as part of Spill: Response, October 20, 2019
Photo: Guadalupe Martinez
Students with Maria Thereza Alves during workshop at Belkin, as part of Spill: Response, October 19, 2019
Photo: Guadalupe Martinez
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