The tank, the poem, and the uniform 2016
UPCOMING EVENT @ Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Thurs. January 14, 2016 6pm-9pm
Poetry reading & Discussion: Sun. January 17, 2pm
Exhibition catalogue available for pre-order:
Introduction by Justin Muir
Exhibition essay by Dina Al-Kassim
Publication launch date - TBA
FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery
November 6, 2015
Performance with Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, Igor Santizo, and Stefan Smulovitz
Curated by Glenn Alteen
A soldier begins playing his viola.
A poem is read in Spanish, in French, and in Korean.
Camouflage is removed, to reveal a butterfly soldier and tank.
The tank - with a tricycle inside - is manouveured through the gallery space.
Audience is saluted and thanked.
A Space Gallery, Toronto
May 16 - June 15, 2014
Wrong Place / Mauvais Endroit / Lugar Incorrecto / 틀린 장소 is an ongoing series of site-specific public works that are performative. By researching geopolitical histories, seemingly disparate political events are 'remixed' - cross-culturally and linguistically. Performed in various international sites - Nicosia (Cyprus), Santiago (Chile), Valdivia (Chile), Mexico City (Mexico), Edmonton (AB), Montréal (QC) - each...
TOXICITY 2013 is the inaugural exhibition, conference and workshop of a series of international exhibitions and...
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When Art and Dentistry Mix, You Get This 06/09/2013When occasions dictate, I introduce myself as "an artist whose favourite hobby is dentistry." I came to dentistry as a result of what I call "an accident of migrant experience" - a common...
UPCOMING EVENT: CSA Space, Vancouver Sept. 6 - Oct. 7, 2012 Opening Reception: Thurs. Sept. 6, 6-9pm as part of SWARM
Beautox Me takes the faces of actors as the canvas for cosmetic / artistic intervention. In our era of High Definition media, actors who desire a younger appearance will be selectively recruited for botox facial injections. The actors will then be asked to pose for 'before' and 'after' video shoots while reciting highly emotive...
UPCOMING EVENT: grunt gallery, Vancouver September 6 - 22, 2012 Opening Reception: September 6, 7-10pm as part of SWARM
Based on his research carried out at SymbioticA Centre for Biological Arts, University of Western Australia (Perth), Khang dovetails his dual disciplines of art and dentistry, into a quasi-scientific multimedia installation at the gruntKitchen medialab.
Lugares Incorrectos (El Trabajo de Abrirse) 2012
Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlatelolco, Mexico City
Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
This site-specific project continues the "Wrong Places" Series, for which seemingly disconnected historical events and public speeches are juxtaposed and remixed - both culturally and linguistically, triggering our collective amnesia to remember things perhaps as they never were. Previous to the Mexico City event, previous...
How To Feed A Piano: La Monte Young Projects Exhibition Catalogue, 2nd Edition 2012
Publication Launch: Centre A, Saturday June 2, 2012 1-4pm
Candice Hopkins (managing editor)
Karianne Blank (designer)
Anndraya Luui (donor)
The second edition of this publication, originally published in 2008 as a limited edition of 175 copies, includes following updates:
Original essays by Candice Hopkins, Larissa Lai, & Rinaldo Walcott,
and new text...
A Measure of War (JE ME SOUVIENS) October 16, 2010, Montréal, QC
A pivotal moment in 20th century Anglo-Franco Canadian history is the October Crisis of 1970. The kidnappings of James Cross and Pierre Laporte by the Front de Libération du Québec were swiftly met by Pierre Trudeau's invoking of the War Measures Act - nation wide, civil liberties were suspended while Canadian Forces patrolled the streets of Montréal. The events of 1970 helped fuel the already-...
