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

SYMPOSIUM:
Talking about Thliitsapilthim
Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains

Click here for directions

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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CANCELLED - Monday, November 23

Curatorial Lecture Series
Anselm Franke

CANCELLED

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled.

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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

Rm 104 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

Rm 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

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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