Faculty news

*Update | Artist Talk, Saturday, November 26, 3-5pm.

Sessional faculty member Janice Toulouse is one of ten contemporary Aboriginal artists asked to draw upon the values and lessons of oral culture in order to explore present day realities in the exhibit Ancestral Teachings: Contemporary Perspectives at the Gladstone Gallery.

The exhibit is curated by Vanessa Dion Fletcher and runs from November 16 - 30, 2011.

Emily Carr Professor Landon Mackenzie opens Wednesday in Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

A very ambitious event of exhibition, Open Platform and Symposium, Tracing Mobility sets out to examine how electronic networks and mobile media are transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance. Mackenzie joins fellow Canadians Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, UK's Simon Faithful and 12 other internationals artists. Two of her very large map-paintings complement a show that is media heavy, tech-savy, and installation based.

Assistant Professor Kyla Mallett is featured in a solo exhibition, Helping Yourself, at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

Assistant Professor Duane Elverum is a featured speaker at TEDxSFU, an independently organized TED event. 

Duane has been teaching university students for 16 years. A designer and sustainability educator at Emily Carr, his teaching and research explores how universities can directly connect students to public issues with studio-based, collaborative and dialogic learning models oriented toward civic engagement.

Associate Professor Alexandra (Kelly) Phillips has been awarded one of two runner-up prizes for the 2011 Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize.

Phillips' article: "A Curtain Closes on Theatre of the World- a Controversial Exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery Pits Animal Rights against Artistic Freedom" appeared in Fuse magazine. Surveying an exhibit by the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, the article examined the ethics of the use of live animals by artists. Alexandra will also be speaking on this subject on the "Beyond Censorship: Art and Ethics" panel at the upcoming 100th Annual College Art Association Conference in Los Angeles.

Sessional faculty member Stephen Waddell discusses photography books and the process of producing Hunt and Gather with the legendary publisher, Steidl.

Stephen is a prominent Vancouver photographer and has exhibited widely including recent solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery and Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver/Toronto, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel and group exhibitions Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels and 5x5 Castello 09, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain. He was awarded the Liliane Bettencourt Prix de Photographie in 2010 and is in major museum collections.

Professor Landon Mackenzie along with Associate Professor, Glen Lowry, will provide a lecture, Crossing Over: Painting a Critical Conversation at the Richmond Art Gallery from 7 - 8pm on Thursday, October 20.

Associate Professor Dennis Burke will also provide a lecture, Soundscape to Paintings, from 8 - 9pm on Thursday, October 20.

These lectures run in conjuntion with Landon MacKenzie's exhibition, Crossing Over, Why Cloud the Whites, exhibiting at the RAG until October 30, 2011.

Free admission. Doors open at 6:30pm.

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away...
Emily Dickinson 1830–1886

The recent issue of C Magazine includes an essay by Associate Professor Randy Lee Cutler, which explores the phenomenological experience of reading and how reading books has unique physiological qualities and spatio-temporal dimensions that distinguish it from the experience of reading digital texts.

Seven original works of art created by 21 artists will be auctioned off in an invitation-only reception celebrating the CBC’s 75^th Anniversary.

The collaborative drawings were created in the surrealist style of the 1920’s, called Cadavre exquis or Exquisite Corpse, on the theme of “A mediated world”. The seven artist trios were selected by three curators and include the following Emily Carr community members: