February 10, 2012

Concrete Poetry Symposium

Concrete Poetry Symposium with speakers:

Lori Emerson (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Liz Kotz (UC Riverside)
Stephen Scobie (Victoria)

At the Belkin Art Gallery.
All welcome. Free admission. General seating.
February 10, 2012

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Friday, November 4, 2:00 pm

Concert at the Belkin

Friday, November 4, 2:00 pm at the Belkin

All welcome. Admission is free.

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UBC CONTEMPORARY PLAYERS

Paolo Bortolussi – Director/Coach
David Gillham, Eric Wilson, David Harding – coaches
Chris Morano – TA/coach

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Thursday, September 29, 2:00 - 5:30 pm Friday, September 30, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm

Symposium
The Future of The Contemporary

Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall, UBC

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Luis Camnitzer (September 30 – December 4, 2011, Opening Reception, September 29, 7 – 9pm) and as part of the Curatorial Lecture Series, this symposium features lectures by a distinguished international panel of critics, artists, and curators. The Future of the Contemporary will ask what obligations of the contemporary museum are when confronted by the publics that populate the diverse and often fraught space of the “global village.”

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PAST - Saturday, June 25, 2011, 1:00 - 6:00 pm

Symposium
Material Witness:
Mario García Torres / Konrad Wendt

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

In conjunction with the exhibition, Material Witness: Mario García Torres / Konrad Wendt a symposium organized by Ian Wallace will bring scholarly interpretation to this elusive history. The symposium will be videotaped and included as a supplemental archive.

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PAST - Thursday, March 17, 2011, 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Curatorial Lecture Series
Jens Hoffmann

How To Do Things With Exhibitions: Art and Literature

Rm 102 Lasserre Building, 6333 Memorial Road, UBC

Jens Hoffmann will talk about his recent trilogy of exhibitions based on three of the most iconic American novels of the last two-hundred years: The Wizard of Oz, Moby-Dick and Huckleberry Finn (2008-2010). Hoffman will examine the relationship between literature, art and exhibition making and show how literature can provide us with a frame to understand the today’s political realities by looking at the past.

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PAST - Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 7:00 to 8:30 pm

Curatorial Lecture Series
Amareswar Galla

Michael Ames Theatre, Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive, UBC

Amareswar Galla is a leading, international expert on museums, sustainable heritage development and the alleviation of poverty through culture. He has worked extensively in Vietnam, South Africa, Iraq, the Pacific, Europe, Asia and Australia.

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PAST - Friday, March 4, 2011; noon - 1 pm

Didier Civil:
Faces of Carnival / Jacmel, Haiti

Didier Civil is a celebrated Haitian painter and papier-mache artist, and the founding director of an art school in Jacmel, the site of the most celebrated Haitian Carnival and one of the towns devastated by the recent earthquake and cholera outbreak.

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PAST - Due Friday, February 25, 2011

The Second Annual Dean of Arts Prize for the Best Essay in Visual Literacy
"The face is a politics"

Every undergraduate student at UBC is invited to participate in an essay contest considering the relationship between representations of the face and notions of subjectivity.

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PAST - Friday, February 4, 2011, 10 am - 3 pm

Cold War Confidential
symposium

Belkin Art Gallery, 1825 Main Mall, UBC

“Cold War Confidential” is presented in conjunction with the Brenda and David McLean Lectures in Canadian Studies. This symposium expands on John O’Brian’s focus on photography during the Cold War in Canada to include a comparison with America. Symposium speakers will explore links between culture (art, photography, literature), the environment, and nuclear propaganda and protest in the Cold War era.

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PAST - Friday, December 3, 2010 - 2:00 pm to 5:45 pm

Cine:Subjects - a symposium

Friday, December 3, 2:00 pm at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Room 260, 1961 East Mall, UBC

Free admission

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PAST - Monday, November 22, 2010. Noon - 1 pm

Jerry Wasserman at the Belkin
Zouave Costume and Performance from the Crimea to Michael Jackson

Jerry Wasserman, PhD. is a professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia. Join us for a talk about the history of the “Zouave” uniform. …The characteristic zouave uniform included short open-fronted jackets baggy trousers…

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PAST - Friday, November 19, 2010. 2:00 pm

Concert at The Belkin
UBC Contemporary Players

Join us for a concert by the UBC Contemporary Players, featuring a program of work by Mario Lavista, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, and R. Murray Schafer.

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PAST - Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 6:30 to 8:00 pm

Curatorial Lecture Series
Ute Meta Bauer

Scripted Spaces - The Exhibition as an Architecture of Discourse

Rm 102 Lasserre Building, 6333 Memorial Road, UBC

Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Director of the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) will talk about her curatorial practice. Her interests include projects outside of institutions, the exhibition as an architecture of discourse, and archival practices.

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PAST - Saturday May 1, 2010. 4:30 pm

Curatorial Lecture Series
Régis Michel

Bodybuilding - Howlings in favour of Klein

I.K. Barber Learning Centre
#301, Lillooet Room
1961 East Mall on the UBC Campus

March 9th, 1960. A chic soirée at the Gallery d’Arquian, rue Saint Honoré, Paris. Yves Klein changes a woman into paintbrush, the public into voyeurs, and art into spectacle: a high mass of anthropometry. Nietzsche affirmed that art is never more than a (tragic) farce. Klein demonstrates that art is never more than the artist (a clown): Narcissus in seventh heaven. Klein is a flighty knave: a genius joker, for whom art is life – la vie en rose (Rrose Sélavy): a theatre of… the void. Let us build this organless body which surges up without warning, between Godard and Glauber, Vienna and Kantor, Debord and Deleuze + Guattari: a mere display of conceptual levitation…

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CANCELLED - Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Curatorial Lecture Series
Anselm Franke

We regret to announce that this lecture has been cancelled.

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Contest ends 5 pm, April 1, 2010

What’s Art Got To Do With It?
The First Annual Dean of Arts Prize for the Best Essay in Visual Literacy

Every undergraduate student at UBC is invited to participate in an essay contest considering the relationship of the aesthetic and the political. The exhibition Backstory poses the question, you provide some answers.

There will be a $1,000 cash prize for the best essay. The essay will be featured on the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery website.

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PAST - Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Curatorial Lecture Series
Robert Linsley

A Failed Regionalism

This talk is a draft toward the conclusion of Linsley’s book length history of art in British Columbia. He will discuss the dialectics of regionalism in contemporary art and the failure of regional discourse in Vancouver. Linsley suggests a new critical perspective on contemporary art to explain how a valid regionalism could exist. A number of well-known contemporary Vancouver artists will be discussed and in this lecture Linsley will propose a new way to evaluate their works.

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PAST - Thursday, March 4, 2010

Gallery Talk
Naasḳuu-isaḳs, Shaunee Casavant

Naasḳuu-isaḳs, Shaunee Casavant is a Chief Councillor of the Hupacasath First Nation. Join us at the Belkin for a talk about the many roles of her thliitsapilthim in domestic and ceremonial life. In conjunction with the UBC Global Encounters Initiative…

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PAST - Saturday, February 13, 2010. 8 pm

Curatorial Lecture Series
Nicolaus Schafhausen


Curating in Front of a Local Backdrop

Presented at the Candahar Bar, a project by Presentation House Gallery
on Granville Island at the PTC Studio, 3rd Floor 1398 Cartwright Street

Curating in Front of a Local Backdrop a talk by Nicolaus Schafhausen, will be presented as part of the Curatorial Lecture Series. Nicolaus Schafhausen is Artistic and Managing Director of Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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PAST - Friday, January 15, 2010, 10 am - 5:30 pm and Saturday, January 16, 2010. 10 am - 12:30 pm

SYMPOSIUM:
Talking about Thliitsapilthim
Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains

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A symposium on January 15-16, 2010 to mark the opening of Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of ̣Ḳi-̣ḳe-in at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia

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PAST - Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:30 to 8 pm

Curatorial Lecture Series
Shaheen Merali

Fear in the Transnational Community:
A Response by Artists and Curators

Michael Ames Theatre, Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive, UBC

Fear in the Transnational Community: A Response by Artists and Curators will examine issues and commentators who use language specific to the arts to comment on and demonstrate a major shift in perspectives taking place in the new millennium.

The talk will be concluded by an examination of Merali’s recent exhibition at the Kunsthalle Brot, Vienna, The Promise of Loss, An Index of Contemporary Iran.

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PAST - Monday, October 26, 2009, 6:30 to 8 pm

Curatorial Lecture Series
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Notes towards dOCUMENTA (13)

Rm 102 Lasserre Building, 6333 Memorial Road, UBC

“Notes towards documenta (13)” will focus on the nature and meaning of documenta, its history and future. documenta (13) is being developed from an archeological perspective, according to which every cultural project that moves forward must be grounded in a backward gaze, in an ecological relationship to the past. How was the present imagined in the second half of the 20th century and what was considered urgent at each successive edition of the exhibition?

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PAST - April 8, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Panel Discussion
Bob Nickas, Alan Belcher, and Jennifer Bolande

Moderated by Gil Blank

Room 102, Frederic Lasserre Building, 6333 Memorial Road, UBC

We are pleased to announce a panel discussion with curator Bob Nickas and artists Alan Belcher and Jennifer Bolande. Moderated by artist Gil Blank. Beyond a carrier of an uninterrupted image, what else can a photograph be? This question is at the centre of an exhibition curated for Presentation House Gallery by New York-based independent critic and curator Bob Nickas…

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PAST - January 8, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Barbara Fischer
Thinking Through Curating

Room 104, Frederic Lasserre Building, 6333 Memorial Road, UBC

In collaboration with the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, the Museum of Anthropology, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, and the Faculty of Arts, the UBC Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Barbara Fischer as part of their ongoing series of lectures on contemporary curatorial practice.

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PAST - February 12, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Julian Myers
Riot Shows

Frederic Lasserre Building, Room 104, 6333 Memorial Rd, UBC

Art historian, critic, and curator, Julian Myers will discuss “riot shows,” rock concerts when the audience actively intervenes in the performance, forcing the band to end the show unexpectedly.

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PAST - November 25, 2008

My journey into the art world has been dynamic, complex and scary
Artist talk by Dana Claxton

Distinguished First Nations Artist Program

Room 104, Frederic Lasserre Building, 6333 Memorial Road, UBC

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PAST - September 17, 2008 at 5:30 pm

dieter roelstraete
Thing Theory: "Thingness" and the Origin of the Work of Art

Frederic Lasserre Building, Room 102, 6333 Memorial Rd, UBC

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PAST - Saturday, July 26 at 1:00 pm

Audrey Capel Doray and Joan Balzar
in conversation with Lorna Brown

In conjunction with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery’s exhibition Idyll, artists Audrey Capel Doray and Joan Balzar held a discussion about their work and their careers, which have spanned almost five decades.

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PAST - Thursday, July 24, 2008. 7 pm and 9 pm

Marcus & McLuhan
films by Al Razutis, David Rimmer and Arthur Lispett

In partnership with Vancity Theatre at the Vancouver International Film Centre, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery presented a special night of film screenings related to the exhibition Idyll. On the 40th anniversary of May 1968, the Belkin Art Gallery presented three exhibitions – as well as works from our collection and documents from our archive – that address aspects of that revolutionary decade.

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PAST

No Safe Words
Noam Gonick

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PAST - June 24 to September 4, 2008

Vancouverism: Westcoast Architecture + City Building

Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, UK

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