tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71857632071899261392024-03-13T12:42:41.293-07:00VANTAGE ART PROJECTS BLOGUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-64757804560737286342010-05-07T18:26:00.000-07:002010-05-07T18:26:47.412-07:00NEW VANTAGE BLOG at www.vantageartprojects.comThis blog address will remain an archive for past Vantage Art Projects Blog Posts.<br />
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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.<br />
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Please go to <a href="http://www.vantageartprojects.com/wordpress/blog">www.vantageartprojects.com/wordpress/blog</a> for new and update to date postings.<br />
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Sherri and Jennifer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-54270830927809016182010-05-06T13:43:00.000-07:002010-05-06T13:43:03.082-07:00Buy your tickets now for the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver<!-- start /page.mc --> <!-- Start "Related Media" --> <img alt="Buy your tickets now for the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in
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</div><div> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Presented in partnership with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver May 29, 2010</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Join us for a day of art, conversation and film</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The day will begin with a panel featuring curators <strong>Kitty Scott</strong> and <strong>Douglas Fogle</strong> with artists <strong>Lisa Anne Auerbach</strong> and <strong>Althea Thauberger</strong>. The panel celebrates the North American launch of Phaidon’s <a href="http://www.phaidon.com/store/art/creamier-9780714856834/" rel="external"><em><strong>Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture</strong></em></a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the afternoon, take in <strong>free talks and tours</strong> by art-world experts who will explore and illuminate a selection of exhibitions in gallery districts across the city.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Complete your day with a special screening of <em><strong>Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child</strong></em>, Tamra Davis’ feature documentary about the legendary artist, followed by a lively reception with fellow art lovers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Tickets available now!</strong> <br />
<strong>Purchase them online at <a href="http://casv.ca/" rel="external">casv.ca</a>.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hop schedule available now at</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.canadianart.ca/vancouverhop">canadianart.ca/vancouverhop</a>.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more information contact <a href="mailto:mkalaman@canadianart.ca" rel="external">mkalaman@canadianart.ca</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-48750480480491025752010-05-06T13:35:00.000-07:002010-05-06T13:35:47.242-07:00Vantage Art Projects New Website Migration Underway<div style="text-align: justify;">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. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">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. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>To contact us about the website migration or during the transition process please email info@vantageartprojects.com.<br />
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Sherri and Jen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-72956311621082670192010-04-24T11:56:00.000-07:002010-04-24T11:59:39.857-07:00México Arte Contemporáneo with The Contemporary Art Society of VancouverPhoto 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. <br />
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See all the photos here on the CASV blog>> <a href="http://contemporaryartsocietyofvancouver.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html">http://contemporaryartsocietyofvancouver.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html</a><br />
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Below: Felix Gonzales-Torres at MUAC, and Jumex Curator describing Dan Flavin's work in "The White Room" show, Fondation Jumex. <br />
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Read more here: <a href="http://ow.ly/1xrVL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ow.ly/1xrVL</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-44767419468234550702010-03-30T23:11:00.000-07:002010-03-30T23:19:33.692-07:00Update on Vantage Point II Exhibition-In-Print<div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S7LoGn3d-QI/AAAAAAAABeQ/zQiNO_fjgPo/s1600/Artist_Calls_Icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S7LoGn3d-QI/AAAAAAAABeQ/zQiNO_fjgPo/s320/Artist_Calls_Icon.png" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">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.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">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.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">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.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Here is a brief introduction to the team for Vantage Point II: </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Dr. Jeanne Randolph</b> 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.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">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.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Kathleen Ritter </b>is an artist and curator currently based in Vancouver. She is the assistant curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> 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.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Kate Armstrong</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> 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, <i>Fillip</i>, and the Kootenay School of Writing, contributed to <i>DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts</i> (Anvil Press, 2008), and is the author of <i>Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture (</i>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 <i>Tributaries and Text-Fed Streams</i> for <a href="http://turbulence.org/">Turbulence.org</a> and the Capilano Review (TCR), and <i>Group Show</i>, an exhibition for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics featuring 12 winners of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">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. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Please email us at info@vantageartprojects.com if you have any direct questions about the project.</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Sherri and Jennifer, </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Directors, Vantage Art Projects</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-87774956185776735612010-03-21T09:29:00.000-07:002010-03-30T23:15:38.395-07:00Update to the Gatekeepers Open Call for Submissions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S7LoeKzIPZI/AAAAAAAABeY/yuGboXGt3Jc/s1600/Artist_Calls_Icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S7LoeKzIPZI/AAAAAAAABeY/yuGboXGt3Jc/s320/Artist_Calls_Icon.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A public announcement will be made shortly about the updates to the Gatekeepers project.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">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. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you for your patience!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Amongst those in attendance were Lateral Learning curator Paul Butler, Lateral Learning artists Perry Rath and Julie Gendron, artist Evan Lee, Cultural Olympiad curator & ECUAD lecturer Kate Armstrong, CASV Board member Janice MacIssac, and ECUAD Design Grad and Telus World of Science Staff Janice Gardner. Instant Coffee mates <span class="foot"> Jinhan Ko, Kelly Lycan, Jenifer Papararo and Khan Lee poured the drinks. </span>Centre A Directors Hank Bull and Makiko Hara graciously welcomed Vantage Art Projects and The Instant Coffee Collective after Vancouver's "no fun" reputation held true and fire code regulations temporarily closed "The Light Bar". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S4TrSuLpPiI/AAAAAAAABb4/60Gp_5qzv9M/s1600-h/vap-ll-launch-4007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S4TrSuLpPiI/AAAAAAAABb4/60Gp_5qzv9M/s1600-h/vap-ll-launch-4007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S4TrSuLpPiI/AAAAAAAABb4/60Gp_5qzv9M/s640/vap-ll-launch-4007.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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This blogspot address and our www.vantageartprojects.com address will remain active.<br />
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A better way to showcase our artists and buy their limited edition prints is a part of this redesign. <br />
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Stay tuned for our new look launching April 2010!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-65272280349991550252010-02-15T22:12:00.000-08:002010-02-15T22:24:11.866-08:00Vantage Art Projects launches 2 new art wikizines<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S3o59p2Ts3I/AAAAAAAABYo/6Ql_ylorkgo/s1600-h/new-contemporary-art-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S3o59p2Ts3I/AAAAAAAABYo/6Ql_ylorkgo/s320/new-contemporary-art-logo.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S3o6Bj4i6ZI/AAAAAAAABYw/bSCJwFynEgw/s1600-h/artek-logo-square.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S3o6Bj4i6ZI/AAAAAAAABYw/bSCJwFynEgw/s320/artek-logo-square.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Vantage Art Projects has started two "wikizines" on Zimbio called "New Contemporary Art" and "art+tek" (about new media and technology based art).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A wikizine is an online magazine that aggregates and re-purposes content often published first in other publications. The purpose of the wikizine is to extend the reach of the article/information through a secondary, community based distribution network. <br />
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Please submit either unique articles or articles and press releases published elsewhere about New Contemporary Art or Art and Technology to build the distribution of your news, exhibition announcements and reviews, and new art writing. <br />
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There is no charge for this service - as part of our mandate Vantage Art Projects seeks to create opportunities for artists and to bridge art lovers with exciting new talent. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>New Wikizines:<br />
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<a href="http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=46919">Go to Pitch Engine Social Media Release about new art wikizines>></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-57912088021711016982010-02-09T00:44:00.000-08:002010-02-23T08:10:39.747-08:00Instant Coffee - THE LIGHT BAR - Lateral Learning Book Launch Feb. 19th21. INSTANT COFFEE | LIGHT BAR | opening & event schedule | FEB 12<br />
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LIGHT BAR by Instant Coffee<br />
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The artist collective Instant Coffee presents Light Bar, a full-spectrum<br />
light bar installation and venue for light therapy, light lectures, light<br />
shows, light reading and light rock. Instant Coffee Light Bar is an<br />
ongoing art project that investigates the potential and power of light. The<br />
artists come to this idea through necessity. Living in a place such as<br />
Vancouver, Canada, where the rain can seem endless, the negative effects of<br />
the lack of sunlight on individual psyches and the large social milieu<br />
feels at times paramount. The use of light as a therapy or as a remedy for<br />
SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) is commonly and affectively used by<br />
individuals, but for Light Bar Instant Coffee puts it to the test in small<br />
or large group situations.<br />
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As part of Bright Light a collaborative project that brings together<br />
fourteen arts organizations from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Bright<br />
Light is commissioned by the City of Vancouver through its Olympic and<br />
Paralympic Public Art Program. www.bright-light.ca<br />
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Instant Coffee is a service oriented artist collective based in Toronto and<br />
Vancouver. They began their light research in Bergen, Norway in<br />
collaboration with Flaggfabrikken, opening the Light Bar for two nights of<br />
events and therapy. They continued their research over a three-month<br />
residency at Kuenstlerhaeuser, Worpswede, Germany then returned to<br />
Vancouver to open the Light Bar Bus Shelter, as part of A Bright Future, a<br />
four part public commission for 88 BLOCKS*Art on Main for which they<br />
adapted the Main and West 20th bus shelter into a full spectrum light<br />
therapy bar. In working with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Instant<br />
Coffee opened the Light Bar, a functioning bar and venue from January 30th<br />
to May 24th, 2009. Instant Coffee's most consistent members are Cecilia<br />
Berkovic, Jinhan Ko, Kelly Lycan, Jenifer Papararo, Kate Monro, and Khan Lee.<br />
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Where: Instant Coffee Light Bar: 33 West Cordova St.<br />
When: Multiple events, beginning February 12 through March 20, 2010;<br />
opening hours, Wednesday to Saturday, 7pm - 12 am, and for special events<br />
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Select Schedule of Events:<br />
Friday, February 12: Opening night celebration with the premier performance<br />
of CHRISTINE, a Vancouver synth pop band with Julian Paul Carnrite and<br />
Kevin Ron Schmidt. Christine uses computers to make their music and likes<br />
it when you dance. With guest djs Natalie Purschwitz and Jeremy Mendes,<br />
performance at 11pm<br />
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Saturday, February 13: Slide Show: Aaron Carpenter, Christine D'Onofrio,<br />
Owen Kidd, Shannon Oksanen, Alex Pensato, Philippe Pasquier, Judy Radul,<br />
Sylvain Sailly and Sydney Vermont. Instant Coffee invites ten artists to<br />
show slides of their work or as work; old school analogue or not; vacation<br />
pics may be included. With guest djs Rodney Graham and Jeremy Shaw.<br />
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Thursday, February 18: Light Lecture: RAYMOND W. LAM, MD, Professor of<br />
Psychiatry at UBC and Director of the Mood Disorders Centre at UBC<br />
Hospital, lectures on light, its relationship to SAD and Non-SAD Conditions<br />
www.UBCsad.ca, 8pm followed by an Instant Coffee light show.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Friday, February 19: Book Launch: Lateral Learning by Vantage Art Projects,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">an exhibition-in-print project Vol.1 guest curated by Paul Butler with</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">essays by Dr. Jeanne Randolph and Mark Clintberg, 8pm</span><br />
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Saturday, February 20: Rooftop Special: hosted by LUCAS GRANITO, DANIEL<br />
HELLMANN AND KELVIN BEAUDETTE. Inspired by the sunny daytime parties at WMC<br />
in Miami, Sonar in Spain Picnik Electronique in Montreal and their events<br />
last summer, Rooftop Special aims to recreate a place like summer in the<br />
Light Bar. To complement the space they will be playing classic Chicago<br />
house and lots of modern dance music.<br />
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Saturday, February 27: Karaoke and Authenticity: Seattle curator ERIC<br />
FREDERICKSEN will host a night of karaoke interwoven with an illustrated<br />
lecture. Malcolm McLaren recently wrote, "Today there are two words that<br />
sum up the culture: 'authenticity' is one, and the other ... 'karaoke'!<br />
With Vancouver's karaoke experts, Weekend Leisure. Lecture at 9pm<br />
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Monday, March 8: Light Compositions: DIDIER PETIT (cello), VIVIANE HOULE<br />
(voice) and STEFAN SMULOVITZ (viola & laptop) come together for a rare<br />
performance hosted by TOM CONE, 9pm<br />
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Friday, March 12: Woo Magazine launch.<br />
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Saturday, March 13: Van Bands: KICK EVRYTHING and CALL THE CITY play loud, 10pm<br />
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Wednesday, March 17: Slickerslacker is Fiona Bowie and Jim Peers (guitar,<br />
vox, knobs and tubes, buttons, various utensils and sliders), 10pm<br />
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Thursday, March 18: Danish Artist Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen will host a<br />
screening event based on her video works and give a short presentation on<br />
the artists-run exhibition space rum46 in �rhus, Denmark, 8pm<br />
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Friday, March 19: CAM DALES of the ice cream social playing 50's and 60's hits.<br />
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House dj's: Julian Paul Carnrite, Peter Gazendam, Lazers Bomb, Mittens and<br />
Gloves, Jeremy Mendes, Stephen Murray, Jenifer Papararo, and Natalie<br />
Purshwitz. Guest bartenders: Vivian Bessette, Marianne Bos, Tom Cone, Owen<br />
Kidd, Philippe Pasquier, Judy Radul, Kathleen Ritter, Tiny Josh Schmidt,<br />
Stuart Sproule and more<br />
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See www.instantcoffee.org for a growing list of events, and for other<br />
information contact us@instantcoffee.orgUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-84432716145108563462010-02-04T00:27:00.000-08:002010-02-23T08:11:05.364-08:00Vancouver Book Launch for "Lateral Learning" - Friday, Feb. 19/10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S2qF49rccfI/AAAAAAAABXw/3Uz12ffm75A/s1600-h/lateral-learning-artwork-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/S2qF49rccfI/AAAAAAAABXw/3Uz12ffm75A/s400/lateral-learning-artwork-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Meet Paul Butler our artist curator and help us celebrate the launch of our first exhibition-in-print. If you are a published artist please R.S.V.P if you are joining us: info@vantageartprojects.com.<br />
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Artists in “Lateral Learning” featuring Paul Butler, Mark Clintberg and Dr. Jeanne Randolph with: Amarie Bergman, Lisa Birke, Melissa Brown, Lydia Burggraaf, John Campbell, Robert Caspary, Lucia Cipriano, Jennifer Delos Reyes, Rebecca Donald, Christopher Donnelly, Aganetha Dyck, Richard Dyck, Sarah Fuller, Julie Gendron, Lori Gordon, Sheila Heti, Robin Lambert, Marissa Largo, Henry Mah, Ashley Neese, Christian Nicolay, Jennifer O'Leary, Richard Palanuk, Mitzi Pederson, Perry Rath, Kerri Reid, Scott Rogers, Jesse Sherburne, Julia Sherman, Jonny Silver, Eric Steen, Derek Sullivan, Aislinn Thomas, Julie Thomson, Margaux Williamson, Sascha Yamashita, Weakhand , The Make It Collective (Gabe Baribeau, Ian Fitzgerald, Rachel Fleming, Aimee Burnett, Sean Walsh, Todd Guthrie, Pat Bodnar, Meghan Hunter, Nick Edwards, Emily Vesigny, Emily Rayner and Bailey Holmes), The 26 Collective (Melanie Rocan, Cyrus Smith, David Wityk, Fred Thomas, Shaun Morin, Ian August, Michael Topf), The Reverse Pedagogy Team (Venice 2009). All artist submissions were blind-juried based on an international open call.<br />
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<a href="http://pitch.pe/38857%20">More information about the publication, the published artists and writers here >>pitch engine link</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-79240535266354059482010-01-22T12:17:00.000-08:002010-01-23T20:02:29.153-08:00SCREEN 2010 - Exhibition 10 - When the Night Comes<div class="lining"> <div class="contentPictStyle01"> <img class="" src="http://www.vancouver2010.com/img/00/23/30/ex10-01-alloucherie-occidents_28imgFLead-NL.jpg" /> </div> <div class="contentBlock"> <p><strong>SCREEN 2010</strong><br /><strong>Canadian art. Your screen.</strong></p><p><strong>Exhibition No. 10 — January 19, 2010</strong><br /><strong><em>When the Night Comes</em></strong><br /><strong>Curated by Nathalie de Blois</strong></p><p>Featuring — Jocelyne Alloucherie (winner of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2000), Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Ed Pien, Myfanwy Macleod, Shary Boyle, Chih-Chien Wang, Angèle Verret and Sébastien Cliche</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="javascript:openScreen2010(false,9);" target="_self"> <img class="" src="http://www.vancouver2010.com/img/00/19/29/screen2010-but-launchex-en_94original-GU.jpg" /> </a></p><p><strong>Curatorial Statement</strong></p><p><span>After the sun sets and the inky darkness of night surrounds the landscape, shadows appear, first clear and sharp, then out of focus and shifting, to the fumbling confusion of our mind and eye. Night is a passage that allows us to peek behind the curtains of mundane appearance and draws us to a place of possibility; where the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred. As its title suggests, this exhibition evokes a twilight path into night, the appeal of the void and the path lost, but also reaches back to a time populated by dreams, visions, disquieting specters and fantastic creatures. Both the beauty and fears of the nocturnal imagination are conjured up in turn by the works presented in this exhibition.</span></p><p><strong>Nathalie de Blois – Curator</strong></p><p><span>Since 1997, Nathalie de Blois has curated several exhibitions that have travelled throughout Quebec and Europe. She is presently curator of contemporary art at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, where she organised the exhibition Michel de Broin. Machinations in 2006; an overview exhibition on Quebec’s art scene called It Happened in your Neighbourhood in 2008 and in 2009 a group show Emporte-moi/Sweep Me off My Feet, which examines the turbulences of love through the works of over 30 international artists.</span></p> </div> </div>Sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966957657210428846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-7137501890696272072010-01-13T15:28:00.000-08:002010-01-13T15:42:12.424-08:00Artist Books/Books by Artists in the Cultural Olympiad<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yc3-rAS3wPg/S05W6EU4FZI/AAAAAAAAAA0/99cGsbezydU/s1600-h/snow2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yc3-rAS3wPg/S05W6EU4FZI/AAAAAAAAAA0/99cGsbezydU/s320/snow2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426370156621731218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:130%;" >Books, Records </span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Curated by Dave Dyment</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">photo left: Michael Snow.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://ow.ly/NP5i">Connect with CODE Screen 2010 >>></a></span><br /><br /></span><div style="font-family: arial;" id=":12g" class="ii gt"><p>Perhaps because of influential publishers and distributors in the 70s (Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and Art Metropole, respectively) Canada has a rich history of producing art designed to infiltrate book and record stores.<br /></p><p>Michael Snow’s The Last LP is a classic artist’s audio work, and his Cover to Cover is possibly the most renowned artist book ever printed - a rare case where a Canadian work defines the genre.</p><p>Snow’s works bookend this exhibition, which otherwise draws on artists who explore the structure, content and possibilities of books via published works, photographs, handcrafted facsimile and trompe l’oeil. The works examine our relationship to these objects and to each other, while questioning the authority of the codex.</p><p>The records selected here share a relationship to books. Davis’s charred vinyl refers to book burning and The Last LP is about the form of the vinyl record, as a printed package. It features extensive liner notes that both set up and eventually give away the trompe l'oeil.</p><p>Dave Dyment is a Toronto-based curator, artist and writer. From 2004 to 2008, he was director of programming at Mercer Union. Prior to that he was at Art Metropole for five years, where he curated numerous exhibitions. Other projects include Nuit Blanche 2008 and a forthcoming volume on Artists’ Multiples for YYZ Books. He is co-founder of Nothing Else Press, which has published projects by Jonathan Monk, David Shrigley, Paul Butler and others.</p></div>Sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966957657210428846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-9018078465877416302009-12-19T20:10:00.000-08:002009-12-19T20:22:10.857-08:00A Sports Swarm in Contains Animal Byproducts!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/Sy2kWLkIEQI/AAAAAAAABTI/MITPT2mEoUs/s1600-h/CODE-Screen-2010-Exhibit-8-AD.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 223px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/Sy2kWLkIEQI/AAAAAAAABTI/MITPT2mEoUs/s320/CODE-Screen-2010-Exhibit-8-AD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417166627764965634" border="0" /></a>Artwork at left: "Red Football Helmet" by Aganetha Dyck. Photo: Peter Dyck.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Contains Animal Byproducts! Pet Food for the Brain, Curated by Daina Warren</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="http://ow.ly/NP5i">Connect with CODE Screen 2010 >>></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Contains Animal Byproducts! is a multi-media, group exhibition that investigates the animated side of art - literally and figuratively. All the visual artworks incorporate various references that include animal as shaman, animal for consumption or the natural environment as well as projects and images that are connected to politically charged notions such as the link between the protection of wildlife and Canadian identities. These diverse projects hold various interpretations due to the incongruity of aesthetic materials and objects paired with animal depictions.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Daina Warren is of the Montana Cree Nation in Alberta. She received her BFA in 2003 at Emily Carr University, and is currently enrolled in her MA in critical and curatorial studies at UBC, graduating in 2010. Warren has curated for the New Forms Media Arts Festivals (2004,2005), the Earth Village for the World Urban Forum (2006) and as an associate curator with grunt gallery and the LIVE Biennale of Performance Art from 1999-2009.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Contains Animal Byproducts! Pet Food for the Brain is lead by Governor General's Award for Visual and Media Arts winner Aganetha Dyck with Mary Anne Barkhouse, BGL, Marianne Corless, Susan Detwiler, David Diviney and Bill Burns.<br /></div><br />Enjoy! (Did we mention that Aganetha Dyck will be in our upcoming LATERAL LEARNING exhibition-in-print curated by Paul Butler????)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-78268359018501211102009-12-15T16:00:00.000-08:002009-12-15T16:09:06.441-08:00Vantage Art Projects Uses PITCH ENGINE for SOCIAL MEDIA PRESS RELEASES<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/Sygk8iQmnqI/AAAAAAAABTA/jcEY-iui_G8/s1600-h/pe-logo-new-o-trans.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 47px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/Sygk8iQmnqI/AAAAAAAABTA/jcEY-iui_G8/s320/pe-logo-new-o-trans.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415619174320217762" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Vantage Art Projects launches Social Media Releases with PITCH ENGINE as the primary method of news wire and press release distribution<br /><br />Vantage director Jennifer Mawby says that " the real-time and multi-media capabilities of Social Media Releases surpasses the ability to engage people in arts and culture activities over traditional text and image only press releases. With a S.M.R. sound bites for tweets and links to other social media portals like Facebook are included in the release for one-click re-posting. The ability to embed You-Tube video and multiple images into the release add to it's dynamic features we feel are right for Vantage's unique art projects. We are excited about the potential with Pitch Engine."<br /><br /><a href="http://ow.ly/MvzW">See the GATEKEEPERS S.M.R here!</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-13777859442778464962009-11-30T09:53:00.000-08:002009-11-30T10:05:43.080-08:00Curator Dave Dyment Watches Iain Baxter on Television - CODE Screen 2010 Exhibition 6<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SxQHC0JDZMI/AAAAAAAABOQ/LWxKpzhqxTw/s1600/iain_baxter.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SxQHC0JDZMI/AAAAAAAABOQ/LWxKpzhqxTw/s400/iain_baxter.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409956797316555970" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: normal"><span style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Old Televisions and Super 8 Film Stock inspires Dave Dyment, CODE Screen 2010 Curator.</span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><i><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(Artwork at left by Iain Baxter). </span></span></span></span></i><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">As a countdown to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, CODE Screen 2010 will animate your screen and captivate your imagination. By the end of the Games, CODE Screen 2010 will have showcased the work of more than 100 of Canada's finest creators, including recipients of the Governor General's Award for Visual and Media Arts.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Enjoy the works of artists including Alex Janvier, Michael Snow, Aganetha Dyck and Kenneth Lochhead in 14 exhibitions curated by Kate Armstrong, Dave Dyment, Donna Wawzonek, Nathalie deBlois, Milena Placentile and Daina Warren.<br /><br />The best way to experience CODE Screen 2010 is to install the application putting you one click away from all the content. You'll receive an automatic prompt whenever a new exhibit is launched. Or come back to vancouver2010.com/code whenever you need an art break.<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=57cduddab.0.0.nptrkqcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vancouver2010.com%2Fmore-2010-information%2Fcultural-festivals-and-events%2Fcode-connect-create-collaborate%2Fcode-screen-2010%2F&id=preview" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/code-connect-create-collaborate/code-screen-2010/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Catch Exhibition 6 to the end of November. Test Pattern curated by Dave Dyment featuring Governor General Award Winner Iain Baxter, with Collin Zipp, Kelly Mark, Janet Morton, Aaron Carpenter, Germaine Koh and Sara Angelucci.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></b></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-11100087190622103572009-09-30T08:17:00.000-07:002009-09-30T21:15:32.210-07:00"Canary" by James Whitman - FRESH PICK Volume 1 Edition 24<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SsOKRkxBV5I/AAAAAAAABL8/HyQ7b1v5CjM/s1600-h/FPV1E23_JW_Canary_Web.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 248px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SsOKRkxBV5I/AAAAAAAABL8/HyQ7b1v5CjM/s320/FPV1E23_JW_Canary_Web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387301613796939666" border="0" /></a>The wild bird, endemic to Macaronesia, is gregarious and builds cup-shaped nests while often fiercely defending it's territory. It feasts in flocks while foraging on the ground, and cannot survive without gravity. James Whitman's "Canary" is a wild bird of a different feather.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">"Canary" comes from the figures and creatures in the artists "Some Kings" series. Whitman tells us the 'kings' are caricatured alien or ‘other’ subjects generated from a formal play with the construction of face, countenance, and the kinds of social space these can generate. They are purposely deadpan and low affect. They acknowledge us and present themselves, but they don’t elicit our attention or social engagement, and beyond holding our eye, they make no social display. As with wild animals, we don’t share their society and they are indifferent to us.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The kings’ social world, social relations, the state of the land they inhabit and its economics have been bracketed off, left open. We are not presented with the depiction of an imaginary or allegorical society and its functions and relations, but with difference, with our world become different. The point isn’t so much the specifics of that difference, but to depict the absence of our society, the world without our administration. These drawings both depict a certain semi-developed state of the not-wilderness of British Columbia, and shift this familiar mundane land of overgrown logging roads, abandoned fridges, and ten year old spruce over into a fantasy of an unpeopled world. They imagine a world that exists quite sufficiently without any of the very particular forms of meaning peculiar to our species. A world without our presence as witnesses.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">James Whitman has an honours BFA from UVic 1998 and is currently represented by the LES Gallery in Vancouver. He is artist, curator, collaborator and has sat on board of the Vancouver Access Artist Run Centre and the ‘536’ curatorial society “with a focus on exhibitions in unusual situations”. He has completed residencies in Leipzig Germany and Dawson City, Yukon. He is a member of the Vancouver-based drawing collective Lions Pile. You can find more work by the artist at <a href="http://www.lesgallery.ca/">LES Gallery</a>, <a href="http://www.outbuildingsandlivestock.ca/">Outbuildings and Livestock</a> and <a href="http://www.lionspile.ca/">Lions Pile</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.vantageartprojects.com/fresh_picks.html"><br />Buy "Canary" now from $45+!</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-81640814993947487642009-09-29T09:21:00.001-07:002009-09-30T09:44:12.743-07:00"Sweet Smell of Success" by Matthew Sweig - FRESH PICK Volume 1 Edition 23<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SsJHXez_R0I/AAAAAAAABLg/2sBXeXzegQo/s1600-h/FPV1E23_Sweig_Sweet_Smell_I_Promo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SsJHXez_R0I/AAAAAAAABLg/2sBXeXzegQo/s320/FPV1E23_Sweig_Sweet_Smell_I_Promo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386946573022218050" border="0" /></a>Welcome to "The Sweet Smell of Success". This series is a fragmented self-portrait made up of the little physical evidence of the artist’s ancestral past. Further to past works dealing with urban debris and the memory of objects, this work strives to illustrate the many ways in which one views themselves. The people are distant maternal relatives captured from old photographs. The screen printed pattern is extracted from monetary notes from Czar ruled Poland from the early twentieth century where Sweig’s paternal family was at the time the photographs were taken in Canada.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Matthew Sweig is educated in the field of Landscape Architecture and practices in Toronto, Canada. Gary Michael Dault of the Globe and Mail’s review of Sweig’s “Reconstruction of a Demolition” exhibit from 2005 could equally describe this piece. “A glance at the picture reproduced here - or even a prolonged study of it - will probably not serve to identify it as a painting rather than a photograph. But a painting it assuredly is, a vastly labour-intensive, black-and-white acrylic on canvas...” More information on the artist’s original works can be found at <a href="http://www.matthewsweig.com/">www.matthewsweig.com</a>. He is represented by the XEXE Gallery in Toronto, <a href="http://www.xexegallery.com/">www.xexegallery.com.</a><br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.vantageartprojects.com/fresh_picks.html">Buy "The Sweet Smell of Success I" now from $45+!</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-8218819620977915482009-09-03T10:31:00.000-07:002010-02-23T08:11:29.492-08:00PAUL BUTLER EXHIBITION-IN-PRINT - Artists to be published<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/Sp_9z43PQ7I/AAAAAAAABLQ/HkEH1A7oa5A/s1600-h/Submit_to_Paul_Butler.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377295547982889906" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/Sp_9z43PQ7I/AAAAAAAABLQ/HkEH1A7oa5A/s400/Submit_to_Paul_Butler.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 86px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 175px;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">The artists who responded to our open call for submission, and who have been selected for publication in our Paul Butler exhibition-in-print project are now announced. The full press release and list of artists can be found on our website. Thank you for "Submitting to Paul Butler"!</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please find below the list of artists whose work was selected for publication in the upcoming Exhibition-in-print book curated by Paul Butler. The full list to be published in at the end of this message and includes 40+ individuals. We would like t</span></span>o stress that in keeping with the process outlined, Paul blind-juried the work of all submitting artists. Further to the open submissions, Paul was invited to ask a small number of artists to contribute along with his own work. These artists also paid a submission fee. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The quality of the submissions were high and came in from all corners of the globe making the final decision of what works to publish difficult. The selections were made very carefully based on the best fit with our curatorial theme and guided by the critical essays to be published with the artwork.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Artists in “Lateral Learning” featuring Paul Butler, Mark Clintberg and Dr. Jeanne Randolph with: Amarie Bergman, Lisa Birke, Melissa Brown, Lydia Burggraaf, John Campbell, Robert Caspary, Lucia Cipriano, Jennifer Delos Reyes, Rebecca Donald, Christopher Donnelly, Aganetha Dyck, Richard Dyck, Sarah Fuller, Julie Gendron, Lori Gordon, Sheila Heti, Robin Lambert, Marissa Largo, Henry Mah, Ashley Neese, Christian Nicolay, Jennifer O'Leary, Richard Palanuk, Mitzi Pederson, Perry Rath, Kerri Reid, Scott Rogers, Jesse Sherburne, Julia Sherman, Jonny Silver, Eric Steen, Derek Sullivan, Aislinn Thomas, Julie Thomson, Margaux Williamson, Sascha Yamashita, Weakhand , The Make It Collective (Gabe Baribeau, Ian Fitzgerald, Rachel Fleming, Aimee Burnett, Sean Walsh, Todd Guthrie, Pat Bodnar, Meghan Hunter, Nick Edwards, Emily Vesigny, Emily Rayner and Bailey Holmes), The 26 Collective (Melanie Rocan, Cyrus Smith, David Wityk, Fred Thomas, Shaun Morin, Ian August, Michael Topf), The Reverse Pedagogy Team (Venice 2009). All artist submissions were blind-juried based on an international open call.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">V.A.P. is committed to offering inclusive opportunities for artists. As a part of our programming, V.A.P. provides open call, blind juried opportunities for artists via exhibitions and art publications.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-15155858916591551772009-08-30T17:16:00.001-07:002009-09-30T09:43:45.442-07:00"Man Trap" by Dana Holst - FRESH PICK Volume 1 Edition 22<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/Sps7B2ay0ZI/AAAAAAAABII/VByiKvWYFI8/s1600-h/FPV1E22_Man_Trap_Web.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 274px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/Sps7B2ay0ZI/AAAAAAAABII/VByiKvWYFI8/s320/FPV1E22_Man_Trap_Web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375955483170623890" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Man Trap” by Dana Holst is from a new series "Prey" which explores from a psychological </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >perspective the human/animal instinct to stalk other beings - sometimes for survival but mostly for fun. It is a look at the need to act out upon and keep in touch with primal urges, filtered through a sanitized world of industrial and computer prowess where human hunters use technology against lowly beasts, often to unfair advantage. In the drawing “Man Trap” a young woman in silk tights and a frilly can-can costume lifts her skirt up, concealing her face and exposing her legs and panties, setting her trap. Playfully humorous, drawn with delicate and bold marks in black oil paint on pink paper, “Man Trap” uses feminine wiles alone, with the viewer being the stalked prey. "Prey"evokes fairy tale darkness, surreal charm and wry wit, all commenting on human ignorance and our oblivious desire for fun.</span></div><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 2; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Award-winning artist, Dana Holst was born in Kitchener, Ontario in 1972. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a BA in Fine Arts in 1995. Post graduation, she received the Don Phillips Scholarship resulting in a year long printmaking residency at Open Studio in Toronto. </span></span></p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 2; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto; font-family: arial; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="en-US"> </p><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 2; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" lang="en-US"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Her work has been exhibited across Canada and is in private collections throughout North America. Public collections include:The Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston; Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa; the Alberta Foundation for the Arts in Edmonton; the Art Bank ; the Colart Collection in Montreal and Ernst & Young in Toronto. Original works are available at Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture, Edmonton, <a href="http://www.katharinemulherin.com/">Katharine Mulherin</a>, Toronto and <a href="http://galeriestlaurentplushill.com/artist_list/artists.html">Galerie St. Laurent + Hill</a>, Ottawa. Her 2010 exhibition schedule includes the Odd Gallery, Dawson City Yukon and the White Water Gallery in North Bay Ontaro. Her personal web site is <a href="http://www.danaholst.com/">www.DanaHolst.com</a>.<br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.vantageartprojects.com/fresh_picks.html">Buy "Man Trap" by Dana Holst here starting at $45+!</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-27280185968577830802009-08-18T11:00:00.000-07:002009-08-18T11:45:21.099-07:00"Green Crocodile Hermes" by Biliana Velkova - FRESH PICK Edition 21<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SoEGkmE011I/AAAAAAAABGA/LAcdrUmHZ-U/s1600-h/Green+Crocodile+Hermes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SoEGkmE011I/AAAAAAAABGA/LAcdrUmHZ-U/s320/Green+Crocodile+Hermes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368579456568186706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shop 'Till You Drop!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And do so in style with "Green Crocodile Hermes" by Biliana Velkova whose work examines consumerism by exploring motifs of glamour, brand names and celebrity culture. Velkova searches for ways to fit these references into her everyday reality, incorporating photography, drawing, performance and social interventions into her art practice. As a teen, Velkova immigrated with her family from Bulgaria to Canada, basically transplanted from a Communist, childhood upbringing directly into Western, youth culture. Such profound culture shock provides an unique perception and fascination with consumerism, in both its shallow and far-ranging, socio-cultural effects.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Biliana Velkova has her BFA from Concordia and is a MFA candidate at the University of Saskatchewan, 2010. She is currently working on using performance and multi-media to blend the line between art, advertising and commodity to another level; producing a body of work that utilizes tools actually used in marketing campaigns, including video ads, poster campaigns, and “product launch” performances. Reminiscent of celebrity marketing campaigns that use a popular icon to create a brand name, this work challenges this phenomenon with the creation of “media-hype” around an unknown persona that is devoid of any famous trademark. This project questions how and when a common person becomes a brand, thus blurring the lines of art, commodity, and social identity. Biliana Velkova is represented in Vancouver by the Jeffrey Boone Gallery, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.jeffreyboonegallery.com">www.jeffreyboonegallery.com</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-38000442339490513212009-08-10T15:31:00.000-07:002009-08-10T15:53:47.260-07:00OLIO FESTIVAL - "The Shoe Show" opening at Grace Gallery, Friday Aug. 14/09<p>VANTAGE ART PROJECTS supports Olio Festival and the arts events and showings around Vancouver. Check out the artists showing at each venue and <span style="font-weight: bold;">"The Shoe Show"</span> at Grace Gallery, 1898 Main Street. Opening party Friday, August 14th at 8pm.<br /></p><p><img rel="lightbox" src="http://www.oliofestival.com/sites/oliofestival.com/files/public/OLIO.png" alt="olio" title="olio" height="14" width="28" /> [oh-lee-oh] -noun, plural olios.</p> <ol><li>a medley, as of musical or literary selections; miscellany. </li><li>a mixture of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge. </li><li>a dish of many ingredients.</li></ol> <p>MISSION STATEMENT</p> <p>Olio Festival is a not-for-profit Vancouver based cultural expose focused on bringing together taste-making music, comedy, design, art, and film to Vancouver, from across Canada, and around the world. As a reflection of the diversity of both the artists and the city, Olio festival moves through the neighborhoods of Vancouver creating exposure for businesses across the city.</p><p><a href="http://www.oliofestival.com/">http://www.oliofestival.com/</a><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185763207189926139.post-14311444252877376022009-07-27T12:35:00.000-07:002009-07-31T13:12:27.840-07:00"Nail Gun" by Mark Mushet - FRESH PICKS V1E20<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SnNPTqqriFI/AAAAAAAABFc/_qf-jcvZypI/s1600-h/FPV1E20_Nail_Gun_Web.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 221px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pn7H0gxHin0/SnNPTqqriFI/AAAAAAAABFc/_qf-jcvZypI/s320/FPV1E20_Nail_Gun_Web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364718780417804370" border="0" /></a>Nail Gun by Mark Mushet is from a series attempting to wrest some beauty from a typical worksite at one of the area’s many beige condo developments. Rather than focusing on the endless opportunities for “abject landscape” images the artist went for the macro view of the tops of a coiled string of partly oxidized, blued nail-tops. Intrigued by the idea of a casual spray of nails holding together countless square miles of beige stuccoed wall, Mushet likes to imagine the area’s future when only the nails are left on the concrete footing. This image is old-school film photography treated with cross-processing film developing techniques.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Born in North Vancouver in 1963, Mark Mushet has created images in many forms since 1985. He first trained in film and video, producing arts documentaries and shorts for television. In the late '80s he began work in still photography (self-taught) merging macro photography with contemporary music for a series of live slide-projection performances at galleries such as the Western Front and Helen Pitt.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">By 1995, Mushet had established a career in editorial and design photography. He has contributed award-winning portraits of cultural, entertainment, business and sports figures to a variety of Canadian publications including Elm Street, The Globe & Mail, The Georgia Straight, Western Living, Vancouver, BC Business and Vancouver Review. He has also contributed to the British new music magazine WIRE and the US publication Fretboard Journal.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">He was nominated for a Juno award for photography in the “Best Album Design: Photography” category in 2003 and has received 12 nominations and one win for “Best Photograph” at the Western Magazine Awards and nominations for “Best Portrait” at the National Magazine awards. He continues to produce images for contemporary-music packaging providing CD cover art for pianist/composers Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb, composers Paul Dolden, Dennis Smalley, John Young, Bradshaw Pack, Sergio Barroso, Stephane Roy , Darren Copeland, David Berezan, Forrest Fang and many others.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">He is currently co-publisher and Creative Director of Vancouver Review magazine <a href="http://www.vancouverreview.com/">www.vancouverreview.com</a> and is curating its Centrefold visual arts section. His latest photography commission is a set of large format B&W portraits for the Museum of Vancouver’s Velo-City exhibit.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com