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Jan 27-28 — Visual Impetus XV: Intersec+ions

Visual Impetus XV: Intersec+ions

27-28 January 2012
Fine Arts Building, Room 103

Friday, January 27, 2012

5:00pm – Opening Remarks

5:30pm – Catherine Nutting & Michael Dias, “The Evolution of a Work: Sketch Study in Music and Art.”

5:50pm – Brooke Brassard, “Virtuous Vampires and Monstrous Missionaries.”

6:10pm – Discussion

6:30pm – Break

6:45pm – Cindy Drover-Davidson, “Sea-Storm and Shipwreck: Metaphors for   Measurement.”

7:05pm – Randip Bakshi, “Architecture, Empire, and Modernity: Richard Roskell Bayne and the Oak Grove School.”

7:25pm – Sara Checkley, “Of Art and Football: The Curious Case of a Brochure.”

7:45pm – Discussion

 

Saturday, January 28, 2012

9:00am – Opening Remarks

9:15am – Gareth Clayton, ““I’ll see you down on the water”: West Saanich No.5, Coast Salish Canoe Racing Culture & A Serious Case of White Blindness.”

9:35am – Susan Hawkins, “Intersections of Art and Ecology: An Essay on Visual Ecocriticism.”

9:55am – Discussion

10:15am – Break

10:30am – Kathryn Leonard, ““In search of some Alpine nightmare”: John Singer Sargent’s Lake O’Hara Experience of 1916.”

10:50am – Andrea Kuipers, “All the Kings’ Horses: Composite Imagery in Mughal India.”

11:10am – Brian Pollick, “Recovering Chastity: A Case Study into Thematic Change in Post-Trentine Bologna.”

11:30am – Discussion

12:00pm – Lunch, Refreshments Available

12:30pm – Erica Bloom, “No Longer a Spectator Sport: Images of Domestic Devotional

Meditation in 16th Century Lombardy.”

12:50pm – Holly Stewart, “Maternity Portraiture of Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun.”

1:10pm – Lauren Smeltzer, “The Performance of Feasting: The Specialization of Household Staff in Early Modern Italy.”

1:30pm – Discussion

2:00pm – Closing Remarks

 

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Feb 1 — Visiting artist: Elspeth Pratt

Feb 4 — 25th Annual Medieval Workshop

Magicians, Seers and Sages

25th Annual Medieval Workshop • Saturday, February 4, 2012

UVic Campus, The Bob Wright Centre (Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Science Building), B150
Faculty Coordinator: Dr. Marcus Milwright, Director, Medieval Studies Program

Magician, shaman, seer, witch, sage, wizard, sorcerer, sibyl: many words have been used to describe the charismatic individuals believed to be able to glimpse future events and penetrate the barriers between the physical world and the spiritual realm. They are the possessors of arcane wisdom and the performers of magic, both benevolent and malignant. Such skills might generate veneration in some, fear and revulsion in others. Confrontation with established religions could lead to brutal results including the torture and burning of women alleged to be witches. The twentyfi fth annual Medieval Workshop explores the enduring fascination—both in the Medieval period and in our own time —with magicians and the magic they claimed to be able to create. The talks will take us from the beliefs and legends of the Celts, Saxons and Vikings in Northern Europe to the practice of Jewish magic in the Medieval Mediterranean.

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Feb 8 — Visiting artist: Steven Loft

Steven Loft

(2010 Trudeau Fellow)

Meaning and Memory: Reflections on Contemporary Aboriginal art in Canada
Wednesday February 8, 7:30 pm
 * First Peoples House *

The University of Victoria and the Trudeau Foundation are proud to welcome  curator, writer and media artist Steven Loft. Born in Hamilton of Mohawk-Jewish heritage, Loft studied at McMaster University and Humber College of Applied Arts, and was the artistic director of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers Association and the First Nations Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton during the 1990s. In 2002, he became the director of Winnipeg's Urban Shaman Gallery, Canada's largest Aboriginal artist-run centre.

In December 2007, he became the first to hold the two-year position of curator-in-residence, Indigenous Art, at the National Gallery of Canada. His exhibitions there—which included "Culture Shock", "Back to the Beginning" and "Steeling the Gaze"—presented contemporary First Nations art that incorporated abstraction, photography and multi-media, and broke new ground in contextualizing Aboriginal art practices. Loft has also written extensively on Aboriginal art and aesthetics for magazines, catalogues and arts publications. Loft co-edited Transference, Technology, Tradition: Aboriginal Media and New Media Art, published by the BanffCentre Press in 2005. His video works, which include A History in Two Parts, 2510037901, TAX THIS! and Out of the Darkness have been screened at festivals and galleries across Canada and internationally.

Feb 22 - Visiting artist: Daniel Barrow

Feb 29 - Visiting artist: Lee Henderson

 

Wednesday February 29, 8pm, Visual Arts Building, Room A 162

Prior to joining UVic's Department of Writing last year, Lee Henderson lived in Vancouver, where he made a living writing on the visual arts, publishing fiction and teaching creative writing at UBC. He has also lead writing workshops for the Summer Literary Seminar in Montreal as well as at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and with U of T's online writing program.

Lee was raised on the prairies in Saskatoon and Calgary but settled out west shortly after high school. Before making books and stories, Lee made cookies, hamburgers, invoices, ad copy, and once, long ago, made the animation for artist Tony Oursler's video for Sonic Youth's song 'Tunic;' and once, even longer ago than that, played in a John Cage 'happening' at the Banff Centre. Lee has published two award-winning books with Penguin Canada — the story collection The Broken Record Technique and the novel The Man Game, which won the BC Book Prize and the Vancouver Book Prize in 2009. His essay on language extinction and corporate English was published in the anthology Finding the Words, edited by Jared Bland. Lee's fiction and art writing is regularly published in The Walrus and Border Crossings magazine, and other short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals. He has curated exhibitions of contemporary art and experimental music.

Mar 21 - Visiting artist: Allan McCollum

40 Plaster Surrogates

Allan McCollum

Wednesday March 21st, 8pm, Visual Arts Building Room A 162

Allan McCollum has spent over 40 years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production. His first solo exhibition was in 1970, and his first New York showing was in an exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1972. In 1975, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and he moved to New York City that same year. In the late '70s he became known for his series, Surrogate Paintings.

McCollum has had over 100 solo exhibitions, including international retrospectives in France, Germany, England, Sweden, Spain and The Netherlands. He has produced numerous public art projects in the United States and Europe, and his works are held in over 70 art museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. McCollum lives and works in New York City.

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