Important Events

Phoenix Theatre: PROBLEM CHILD - February 18 – 27, 2010

PROBLEM CHILD

Photo by: Thomas Hawk

By George F. Walker

Director: Michael Shamata
Set Designer: Sarah Hilhouse
Costume & Lighting Designer: Amanda Gouegoen
Sound Designer: Chris Adams
Stage Manager: Chris Sibbald

Stuck in a room. Stuck in the system.
Confined to a hotel room, a desperate and dysfunctional couple tries to put their past drug abuse and prison terms behind them in order to regain custody of their baby. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights, best known for his fast-paced black comedies that satire the woes of contemporary culture under the pressures of capitalism.

N.B. A sign language interpreter will be provided for the February 27, Saturday matinee at 2pm.

• 2009-10 Phoenix Theatre Season
• Poster for Problem Child (PDF)

Laurie Freeman - Wednesday Feb 10

Laurie Freeman

Wednesday, February 10, 8pm
Visual Arts Building Room A 162

Laurie Freeman recently graduated with a BFA Honours from The University of Victoria in 2004 and continued on to Central Saint Martins School of Fine Art, Byam Shaw, graduating from the Postgraduate program in 2006.  Since her graduate show, Freeman has been represented by The Empire Gallery in east London, England.  Her primary work is sculptural, fusing mannequins and PVC plumbing elements to discuss ideas of the constructed environment, social and architectural, and the strive of perfected beauty while diverting the cardinal humours.  Art historical eras, such as the 1960's New Figuration and Minimalist movements, inform Freeman's body of work.

James Carl - Wednesday February 24, 2010

James Carl

Wednesday, February 24, 8pm
Visual Arts Building Room A 162

Based in Toronto, James Carl creates small- and large-scale sculpture, made from a wide range of materials, from cardboard to marble, to venetian blinds. Most recently, Carl constructed large-scale, amorphous sculptures by intricately weaving brightly coloured venetianblinds. Carl has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Most recently, the first major survey of his work, entitled do you know what, was presented at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto, the Cambridge Galleries Queen’s Square and the MacDonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph. Other recent shows include: jalousie at Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand in Karlsruhe, Germany; negative spaces at Florence Loewy in Paris; plot at Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery, and bottom feeder at Mercer Union in Toronto. Carl earned his MFA from Rutgers University and has degrees from McGill, the University of Victoria and the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. His work is in public and private collections across North America and Europe.  Currently, Carl is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of Guelph.

Lynda Gammon Coordinator

5th Annual Faculty Research Symposium - March 4th, 2010

Cultural Fusions/Cultural Fissures

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

• 5th Annual Faculty Research Symposium

University Centre, Room A180

• 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

An unlikely connection: A Christian mosaic and its Islamic prototype?
Dr. Eva Baboula, Deparment of History in Art, University of Victoria

Yesterday Is Dead And Gone, And Tomorrow's Out Of Sight: Time, Deep History, And First Nations Arts
Dr. Victoria Wyatt, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria

A Traveler's Tale: Max Among His Favorite Dolls
Dr. Carolyn Butler-Palmer, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria

• 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm LUNCH
• 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

ORION LECTURE IN THE FACULTY OF FINE ARTS

Unconquered: Allan Houser's Apache Modernism
Dr. Jackson Rushing III, Eugene B. Adkins Professor of Art & Art History, Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art, School of Art & Art History, University of Oklahoma

• 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

An Ayyubid in Mamluk Garb: Paolo Giovio's Portraits of Saladin
Dr. Marcus Milwright, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria

Missionaries In The Middle East And India
Dr. Anthony Welch, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria

New World: Modernism Enters Victoria's Architecture After World War Two
Dr. Christopher Thomas, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria

• 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm BREAK
• 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Of Hyenas in Heat, Ghosts, and Interruptus in A Passage to India
Dr. Stephen Ross, Department of English, University of Victoria

Creating Anarchically: Tracking the Terms of Engagement
Dr. Allan Antliff, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria

• 4:45 pm Closing Remarks

Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez - Thursday March. 4 & 5th

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Internationally acclaimed musicologist
presents two lectures

Lecture 1: The music of the Inuit in a circumpolar perspective
Thursday March. 4, 2010 at 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Ceremonial Hall of the First Peoples House

Lecture 2: Wagner as antisemite
Friday, March. 5, 2010 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
David F. Strong Building C108

Visiting Scholar, Orion Series in Fine Arts

Jean-Jacques Nattiez is professor of musicology at the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal.  Considered a  pioneer of the branch of musicology known as musical semiology,  he first gained acclaim as the author of theoretical works:  Fondements d'une sémiologie de la musique  [Paris, 10-18, 1975] and  Musicologie générale et sémiologie [Paris, Bourgois, 1987], the latter translated into English as  Music and Discourse [Princeton University Press, 1990] but also in Italian and Japanese.  He then went on to apply his semiological concepts to a wide variety of subjects: the works of Wagner [Tétralogies, Paris, Bourgois, 1983; Wagner androgyne, Paris, Bourgois, 1990; English trans., Princeton University Press, 1993; Italian transl. also]; the musical thought of Pierre Boulez, acting as editor of the latter’s writings (Points de repère, I. Imaginer, Regards sur autrui (Points de repère, II) and Leçons de musique (Points de repère, III) [Paris, Christian Bourgois, 1995 and 2005])  as well as correspondence with John Cage; the music of the Inuit (Canada), the Ainu (Japan)  and of the Baganda (Uganda), of which he has produced several recordings; the relationship between music and literature [Proust musicien, Paris, Bourgois, 1984; 2nd edition: 1999; translated into English as Proust as Musician,  Cambridge University Press, 1987; Italian, Japanese  and Portuguese transl. also]. In addition, he is the author of a novel, entitled Opera [Montreal, Leméac, 1997]. He also published three collections of articles : De la sémiologie à la musique [Montréal, UQAM, 1987 ; Italian transl.], Le combat de Chronos et d’Orphée [Paris, Bourgois, 1993; Engl. trans.,  Oxford University Press, 2004 ; also Italian, Rumanian and Portuguese transl.] and La musique, la recherche et la vie [Montréal, Leméac, 1999 ; also Japanese and Rumanian transl. ; Japanese transl. in progress]. He has been  the general editor of a new Encyclopedia of Music in 5 volumes, published in Italy by Einaudi [2001-2005] and in France by Actes Sud [2003-2007]. 

Internationally renowned, professor Nattiez has published more than 200 papers and has undertaken lecture tours in more than twenty countries. He has been twice invited by the Collège de France and the École Normale supérieure in Paris. He also visited the St-Catherine  College in Oxford, the City University of London, the University of Bologna, the UNAM in México, the University of Rio de Janeiro and various Argentinian universities. In February 2006, he was invited by Umberto Eco to deliver a series of lectures on the theme “Wagner antisemite” in his prestigious “Schola superiore di studi umanistici”.  He was recently invited by Ricordi, the famous music publisher of Verdi and Puccini, for the 200 jubileum of this company, to become the General Curator of an international exhibit on the theme “The making of an opera”, to be presented in China, Japan, Russia, the USA and in various European cities.

He has received numerous distinctions and awards. He is member of the  Order of  Canada (1990), the National Order of  Québec (2001),  the Royal Society of  Canada depuis 1988 and  the Academia Europea since  1996. In 2009, he won the prestigious SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research. He was a  Killam Fellow of the Arts Council of Canada in 1988-90. Among the various awards :  twice the  Grand Prix International du disque (1979, 1988), the  Dent Medal of the  Royal Music Association of London (1989), the  Molson Prize of the Arts Council of Canada (1990), the  Léon Gérin Prize for Social Sciences of the Québec government (1994), the  Alexander von Humboldt Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997), the  Koizumi Fumio Prize for ethnomusicology in Japan (1998), the « prix d’excellence en enseignement » of the Université de Montréal  (2004) and the  Killam Prize for Humanities of the Arts Council of Canada (2004).  In November  2005 and September 2007 reespectively, he was declared doctor honoris causa by the University of the Arts «  George Enesco » of Iasi and the University of Bucarest (Rumania ).

Bruce Ferguson - Wednesday March 17, 8pm

Bruce Ferguson

Wednesday, March 17, 8pm,
Visual Arts Building Room A 162

Bruce Ferguson is an independent curator and critic who has worked internationally for more than thirty years. Ferguson articulated and advocated the vision for Site Santa Fe which now has a successful 15 year history and has attracted other institutions to become the physical center of the city's cultural mission. With Future Arts Research at Arizona State University he has created a vision for an international arts research center which commissions works of art; creates dialogue across academic disciplines and between the university and the community; and extends the reach of the cultural dialogue to a broader public through symposia and artists' residencies. He served formerly as the Dean, School of Arts at Colombia University, as President and Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art, and is the founding Director and first biennial curator of SITE Santa Fe, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ferguson has curated more than 35 exhibitions for institutions such as the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the Winnipeg and Vancouver Art Galleries in Canada, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. He also organized exhibitions in the international biennales of Sao Paulo, Sydney, Venice, and Istanbul.

Lynda Gammon Coordinator

 

Luis Hampshire and Jessica Wozny - March 24, 8pm

Luis Hampshire and Jessica Wozny

Wednesday, March 24, 8pm,
Visual Arts Building Room A 162

Jessica Wozny is a young German-born artist who has been living and working in Mexico for the last 13 years. She has exhibited extensively internationally, and throughout Mexico, most recently as part of Paréntesis: 17 años de trabajo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), and NOW. Transformation. Spaces at Casa de Lago in Mexico City. Upcoming exhibitions include Last Gasp First Flame at Deluge Contemporary Art in Canada in July of 2009 and a three woman exhibition Vol. III, with Maria Ezcurra and Mariana Gullco curated. by Mexican critic and curator Jessica Berlanga Taylor at Manuel Garcia Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca in August. With Luis Hampshire, she is the cofounder of Ediciones Plan B, a curatorial collective based in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Luis Hampshire is a Mexican artist, critic and curator based in Oaxaca. In 2003, with Jessica Wozny, he founded Ediciones Plan B, a not-for-profit artists space located on the periphery of the city with the mandate to investigate, promote, create and generate solo and group shows, as well as multiples and art 'zines, employing diverse strategies and mechanisms to generate a ongoing dialogue between Oaxaca, Mexico and the world at large. Over the past six years Hampshire has organised and curated more than 20 shows and art-based projects featuring artists from Oaxaca, Colombia, Canada, France, Chile, Switzerland, USA, Denmark, Argentina, Israel, Germany and Mexico. His exhibitions include Superpop, Rock You, This monkey goes to heaven, Playground Heroes, happypets, Tiempo Fuera, Hechizo, Sitiar and The Light is Better in Mexico. Hampshire has also taken his exhibitions from alternative spaces to institutions such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO) and the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2007, Hampshire was awarded a prestigious FONCA curatorial grant for his two-tiered project Revolver, comprising the exhibition Sonda and the artists' zine Idea. With Saul Hernandez , he runs the online project hechoenoaxaca.org and currently he is the Director of Exhibitions and Special Projects for Manuel García Arte Contemporáneo in Oaxaca. Hampshire received support from the Canada Council Visiting Foreign Artists program to direct a residency in Victoria in March of 2010. With Deborah de Boer of Deluge Contemporary Art, he is the co-curator of the touring exhibition Dios Nunca Muere:  the visual politics of transmutation in contemporary Oaxacan art.

Lynda Gammon Coordinator

Audain’s $2-million gift a boon to visual arts

Audain’s
$2-million gift a boon to visual arts

Visual Arts students at the University of Victoria will benefit from a $2-million gift from BC art philanthropist Michael Audain and the Audain Foundation. The gift will establish the Audain Professorship in Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest, bringing a distinguished practicing artist to teach in UVic’s Department of Visual Arts.

• The full story can be read on line in the "The RING"

WorkShops

Art Technology - Workshops for students, staff and faculty.

Upcoming fine arts technology workshops

You can sign up for a workshop outside FIA#215 on the big bulletin board

• Final Cut Pro - Hands ON:
  A nuts and bolts approach to capturing, importing and exporting video in Final Cut Pro.
  
  
• Pixels to printout:
  A demonstration of the process and considerations for scanning slides and prints for output to high quality colour prints.
  
  
• Light it up:
  Techniques and considerations for photographing works of art.
  
  
• Hardware review:
  A tour of the various Fine Arts equipment available to students on loan.
  
  
• Shooting it old school:
  A demonstration of the use of our large format 4x5 studio camera.
  
  
• Harvesting sound:
  Techniques and considerations for recording high quality audio.
  
  
• Popping art:
  A demonstration of matte cutting and mounting.