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Part of Winterruption 2015, Granville Island and Emily Carr University are pleased to present screenings of Grey City (Cidade Cinza).

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It could have been... is a proposed defiance against time. Going back to failed hopes, unrealized projects, and alternate realities we propose to bring back from dead to life. We will reconstitute dreams. We will reconfigure our faculties of knowing, so that our vision looks backwards yet extends to future.

The exhibition features works that are generated around the idea of proposals. They assume a tone that rubs against the grain of fast-forwarding economic and social systems and are somewhat nostalgic, in a sense that constantly revisits the question of “what could have been.”

It could have been...
Concourse Gallery
February 4 – 12, 2015
Opening Reception | February 5, 6pm

The Event: The Commons

The Smaller Picture: A Day of Marathon Drawing: What Are You Afraid Of?

The Where: Concourse Gallery

The When: Tuesday, February 17, 8:30am to 3:20pm

The Who: ECU Drawers, keeners, nerds and image makers

The Tools: Brushes, black ink, black and white mark-making supplies, paper

The Theme: WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?

The Purpose: To learn what what we are most scared of and to abandon our fears. Students are invited to draw all day or contribute some drawing to the designated area in the Concourse. It's a black and white/grey scale event. There may be some supplies but otherwise you may want to bring your own… non-toxic please.

Join the Material Matters crew to talk techniques on building a 3D print home-based business, plus get the inside scoop on how to work with computerized production equipment from Laser Cutters to 3D printers, to CNCs. The evening will also include a 3DS Max Software demo; bring questions or projects that you wish to share.  

Through a mimesis of domestic living space, this exhibition considers the ways in which the objects and architecture that comprise the home simultaneously mediate, reflect and construct our relationship to the world around us. The intimacy granted to commodity objects of the home will be observed as a site for the production and mediation of gender, class and familial relations.

This home is arranged according to the individual sensibilities and understandings of the artists, as well as the collectively experienced cultural phenomena of what is defined as the house, the home, the dwelling, the living space.

An-My Lê’s work explores the American military. She presents photographs of landscapes transformed by war or other military activities, blurring the boundaries between Hollywood portrayals and photojournalistic documentation.

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Join us for a talk by Shannon Stratton, founder and Executive Director of Threewalls, a Chicago based not-for-profit for the presentation of contemporary art and ideas.

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Join us for an Artist Talk by Elspeth Pratt, established Vancouver artist and Associate Professor and Director of the School for Contemporary Art at Simon Fraser University.

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Please join us in the Charles H. Scott Gallery for a talk by Trish Kelly on the exhibition Aspen Magazine: 1965–1971.

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Please join READ Books for the launch of Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design published by University of Minnesota Press (2014).

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In Bauhaus Weaving, T’ai Smith deftly reframes the Bauhaus weaving workshop as central to theoretical inquiry at the school, uncovering new significance in the work the weavers did as writers. Exploring questions of establishing value and legitimacy in the art world along with the limits of Modernism, this book confronts the belief that the crafts are manual and technical, but never intellectual arts. Smith is Assistant Professor of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia.