NEW VANTAGE BLOG at www.vantageartprojects.com

This blog address will remain an archive for past Vantage Art Projects Blog Posts.

As of May 10, 2010 we have updated our re-designed website to incorporate our blog content at the same address, and not at this address.

Please go to www.vantageartprojects.com/wordpress/blog for new and update to date postings.

Thank you!

Sherri and Jennifer.

Buy your tickets now for the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver

Tickets on sale now for the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver

Presented in partnership with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver May 29, 2010

Join us for a day of art, conversation and film

The day will begin with a panel featuring curators Kitty Scott and Douglas Fogle with artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger. The panel celebrates the North American launch of Phaidon’s Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture.

In the afternoon, take in free talks and tours by art-world experts who will explore and illuminate a selection of exhibitions in gallery districts across the city.

Complete your day with a special screening of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Tamra Davis’ feature documentary about the legendary artist, followed by a lively reception with fellow art lovers.

Tickets available now!
Purchase them online at casv.ca.

Hop schedule available now at canadianart.ca/vancouverhop.

For more information contact mkalaman@canadianart.ca.

Vantage Art Projects New Website Migration Underway

We are in the process of moving to our newly designed website. This WordPress site will combine our website, ecommerce shop for art and books and our blog at one url address. The address will remain: www.vantageartprojects.com. 

There may be a period of 24-48 hours during which www.vantageartprojects.com may be offline. However, this blog will remain active until we have completed the transition across to the new site. 

To contact us about the website migration or during the transition process please email info@vantageartprojects.com.

Thanks!

Sherri and Jen.

México Arte Contemporáneo with The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver

Photo blogging by Vantage Art Projects director Jennifer Mawby of the CASV spring art tour to Zona Maco, Mexico CIty, and other museums, galleries, and private collections including the Fondation Jumex Collection.

See all the photos here on the CASV blog>> http://contemporaryartsocietyofvancouver.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

Below: Felix Gonzales-Torres at MUAC, and Jumex Curator describing Dan Flavin's work in "The White Room" show, Fondation Jumex. 

"Internet is not a forum for ignorant slander" says the NY Times Discussion

“Once people start realizing that they will be held accountable by their peers for inflammatory or slanderous comments, Internet discussions may finally get a much needed breath of civility,” writes Kevin Brown.

Anonymous or not, responsible journalism, fact checking and the legalities of slanderous and libelous conjecture hold true in cyberspace. 

Read more here: http://ow.ly/1xrVL

Update on Vantage Point II Exhibition-In-Print

Vantage Art Projects is excited to announce that a new team of curators will be developing a three-pronged approach to the updated project for the second Vantage Point Exhibition-In-Print publication. This project was formerly known as "Gatekeepers". The new approach will see our team members developing critical writing for the project and jurying the artist submissions for publication.

The three curatorial team members are Dr. Jeanne Randolph, Kathleen Ritter, and Kate Armstrong. Dr. Randolf is based in Winnipeg and Kathleen and Kate are both based in Vancouver.

Involving more than one curator for the project was Dr. Randolph's idea in order to create a broader dialogue. We feel that this approach will allow for even more diversity in the selections for publication.

Here is a brief introduction to the team for Vantage Point II:

Dr. Jeanne Randolph is one of Canada's foremost cultural theorists, having been writing, publishing and lecturing for over thirty years. She is the author of four books, all published by YYZ Books, Toronto: Psychoanalysis and Synchronized Swimming (1993); Symbolization and Its Discontents (1997), Why Stoics Box (2003), and recently The Ethics of Luxury (2008). She is also the author of countless published articles in Canada and the United States, and has contributed texts to numerous monographs and exhibition catalogues for artists including Fastwurms, Vera Frenkel, Robin Collyer, Elizabeth MacKenzie, Bernie Miller and Ian Carr-Harris. Her pivotal essay "The Amenable Object," (1983) remains required reading in many university art courses.

Her writing is marked by an innovative approach to her chosen subject, a deeply ethical philosophical meandering that blends cultural theory and art criticism with personal history and a poetics of the imagination. A practicing psychoanalyst, Dr. Randolph is also known as engaging lecturer and performance artist whose unique vocal soliloquies--ranging from cat curating to architecture to boxing to Barbie Dolls to Wittgenstein--have been delivered in universities and galleries across Canada, as well as England, Australia and Spain. Randolph is the first and only writer in Canada to develop an Object Relations psychoanalytic theory as a medium for cultural criticism.

Kathleen Ritter is an artist and curator currently based in Vancouver. She is the assistant curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at Prefix (2009), Modern Fuel (2008), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2008), Western Front (2004), Skol (2000), and Access (2000). Her writing has been published in the anthology Places and Non-Places of Contemporary Art (2005) and the journals ESSE, Fillip Magazine, Open Letter, Prefix Photo and SWITCH. She has curated several projects, including How Soon Is Now (2009) at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Expect Delays (2003), a series of artist interventions that took place throughout the City of Vancouver.

Kate Armstrong is a Vancouver based writer, artist and independent curator. Her interdisciplinary practice merges networked media, written forms and urban experiences. She has written for P.S.1/MoMa, Fillip, and the Kootenay School of Writing, contributed to DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts (Anvil Press, 2008), and is the author of Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture (Michigan State University Press, 2002). She has lectured and held workshops on location-aware and participatory narrative at venues including the Tate Britain, Banff New Media Institute, the Obermann Centre for Advanced Studies, and Time’s Up in Linz, Austria. Recent curatorial projects include Tributaries and Text-Fed Streams for Turbulence.org and the Capilano Review (TCR), and Group Show, an exhibition for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics featuring 12 winners of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

The team will be developing their updated curatorial statements including a new title for the project after which the call for submissions will be reopened. 

Please email us at info@vantageartprojects.com if you have any direct questions about the project.

Best, 

Sherri and Jennifer, 

Directors, Vantage Art Projects

Update to the Gatekeepers Open Call for Submissions

A public announcement will be made shortly about the updates to the Gatekeepers project.

The project is continuing with a stellar new curatorial/jury team. This team will be crafting both a revised curatorial statement and an updated name for the ultimate publication/exhibition. The artists who have already submitted to this project will be contacted first individually about the path forward before an external press release is distributed.

Thank you for your patience!

Vantage Art Projects