Exhibitions

Students from PHOT 309 Photographic Installations were invited to complete the third part of a course project within the Emily Carr Library.

Throughout the semester, the class engaged in a three part project that emphasized iteration, permission, possibility, futurity and experimentation bridging a set of parameters to each class member’s own language and practice. Their photographic installations were installed in the home, the city, and the institution.

16 art students & videos...3 project partners...1 theme!

Join us for the public screening of   
Rewilding Vancouver
December 4, 2013, 7 - 9pm
VanDusen Botanical Garden - Visitors Centre

Come and have tea with artist Britta Fluevog in her temporary weaving studio as part of her Metempsychosis Exhibition at Emily Carr's ie, Gallery.

During a period when comsumeristic gift giving is rampant, Fluevog explores a new relationship to gift giving. Fluevog has transformed the gallery space into a weaving studio and is asking viewers to visit with her there. With this performance piece, she is seeking to create community within her new surroundings of Emily Carr and Granville Island.

Seeking to connect her old community with her new one, Fluevog will be making a weaving in support of groups within the Downtown Eastside. As part of her process, Fluevog is exploring the ideology of community as a form of radicalism.

The display and contents of Living address the idea of daily living. Employing the visual language of a storefront window display, the set-up is a direct reference to our daily urban encounters.

The exhibition is comprised of a selection of artists’ books and objects. Together, they resemble a private living space from which a narrative can be developed. Vinyl records, CDs, newspapers, magazines, maps, postcards, and a passport are scattered on the floor. Many of them speak to Vancouver, the place in which they were created. A stack of books, whose titles include ‘Why I Go To The Movies Alone’, ‘do it’, and ‘The Address Book’, forms a set of statements that wryly refer to the simple routines of the everyday.

OUT OF CONTEXT: The Disruption of the Conventional Narrative presents a selection of artists’ books that make use of appropriation, decontextualization, and recontextualization to disrupt the conventional sequential form to create a new narrative through engaging the reader in a performative act of interpretation.

By challenging the reader’s immersive or passive reading experience, new meaning arises from relationships formed by the often perplexing collection of fragments presented in these artist books.

The Practice of Artists' Publishing, Illustrated Memories features work by Alison Bechdel, Guy Delisle, Harvey Pekar, Art Spiegelman, Cindy Milstein, Danzig Baldaev, Rutu Modan, Sarah Glidden, and Lucy Knisley.

The autobiography emerged as a new category of comics in the late 1960s where the author’s reflections and experiences were expressed through graphic and sequential narration.

Sound Reading is an exhibition made up of artists’ books that relate to the concept and practice of sound. Investigating the artist book, traditionally a text and image based form, through the filter of sound consequently reveals new interpretations of the medium. This exhibition is formed with an initial connection to sound from the teachings of experimental musician and composer John Cage, to the Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and continuing through the East Coast New York alternative art and music scene of the early 1950s to the 1980s.