In response to Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions, a group of UBC Creative Writing students, Visual Art students, and recent Visual Arts graduates gathered to reflect on the transit between mediums and geographies in the show. What emerged was a series of prompts for viewers to engage with as a creative…
In a 2011 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors identify as female. The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well documented. While…
Laiwan writes, "Begun in 1987 investigating the questions, What is an image? What is a photograph?, she who had scanned the flower of the world... is an ongoing project where I collect flowers from the city I am showing in, placing the petals into slide mounts."
The following is a list of resources related to the artists in Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions. This list is not exhaustive or an official recommendation, but rather comprised of suggested readings compiled by Public Programs, graduate and undergraduate student researchers at the Belkin. These readings are intended to provide additional…