Events
All events take place in the Visual Arts building, room A162
January 2012
11 Visiting Artist program presents Randall Anderson @ 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Randall Anderson studied at Concordia University (BFA, MFA) in Montreal, The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, and in the MFA program at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. He has exhibited, performed, and screened work internationally at venues including Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow (Poland); Hinoemata Festival at Tajima and Gallery Space 21 in Tokyo (Japan); the Charles H. Scott Gallery , The Western Front, and The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver); the Institute for Contemporary Art in Perth and the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide (Australia); Transmission Gallery in Glasgow (Scotland); Mercer Union (Toronto); and the Parisian Laundry (Montreal). In 2010 he was awarded the commission for the Toronto Sculpture Garden. He's been a board member for numerous artist-run initiatives over the years, including The Western Front in Vancouver and Articule in Montreal, and curated a major exhibition of new work by the pioneer performance artist Carolee Schneemann for Mois de la Photo in 2006. He writes regularly for Flash Art, Art Review, Art Papers, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and C Magazine. He currently teaches art at John Abbott College in Quebec. (Free and open to the public.)
Randall Anderson studied at Concordia University (BFA, MFA) in Montreal, The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, and in the MFA program at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. He has exhibited, performed, and screened work internationally at venues including Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow (Poland); Hinoemata Festival at Tajima and Gallery Space 21 in Tokyo (Japan); the Charles H. Scott Gallery , The Western Front, and The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver); the Institute for Contemporary Art in Perth and the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide (Australia); Transmission Gallery in Glasgow (Scotland); Mercer Union (Toronto); and the Parisian Laundry (Montreal). In 2010 he was awarded the commission for the Toronto Sculpture Garden. He's been a board member for numerous artist-run initiatives over the years, including The Western Front in Vancouver and Articule in Montreal, and curated a major exhibition of new work by the pioneer performance artist Carolee Schneemann for Mois de la Photo in 2006. He writes regularly for Flash Art, Art Review, Art Papers, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and C Magazine. He currently teaches art at John Abbott College in Quebec. (Free and open to the public.)
14 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
18 Visiting Artist program presents Trimpin @ 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Film Screening: TRIMPIN: The Sound of Invention A feature documentary film about the artist/inventor/composer's life and work, TRIMPIN: The Sound of Invention, produced and directed by Peter Esmode, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2009. Trimpin, a sound sculptor, composer, inventor, is one of the most stimulating one-man forces in music today. A specialist in interfacing computers with tradiional acoustic instruments, he has developed a myriad of methods for playing, tromones, cymbals, pianos, and so forth with Macintosh computers. He became interested in acoustical sets while working in theater productions with Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey, director of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. From 1985-87 he co-chaired the Electronic Music Department of the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He has collaborated frequently with Conlon Nancarrow, realizing the composer's piano roll compositions through various media. At the 1989 Composer-to-Composer conference in Telluride, Colorado, Trimpin created a Macintosh-controlled device that allowed one of Nancarrow's short studies for player piano to be performed by mallets striking 100 Dutch wooden shoes arranged in a horseshoe from the edge of the balcony at the Sheridan Opera House. He also prepared a performance of Nancarrow's studies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for New Music America in 1989. Trimpin now resides in Seattle where numerous instruments that defy description adorn his studio. In collaboration with Dr. Andrew Schloss and students from the Music and Visual Arts departments, a team of emerging sound engineers and musicians will join forces with Trimpin in constructing and installing an installation, while developing unique methodologies for activating and performing the installation as an enormous musical instrument. Trimpin will visit UVic from January 17 to 20 to introduce the project,conduct workshops with participants, and host a screening of Peter Esmondes documentary, TRIMPIN: the sound of invention. (Free and open to the public.)
Film Screening: TRIMPIN: The Sound of Invention A feature documentary film about the artist/inventor/composer's life and work, TRIMPIN: The Sound of Invention, produced and directed by Peter Esmode, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2009. Trimpin, a sound sculptor, composer, inventor, is one of the most stimulating one-man forces in music today. A specialist in interfacing computers with tradiional acoustic instruments, he has developed a myriad of methods for playing, tromones, cymbals, pianos, and so forth with Macintosh computers. He became interested in acoustical sets while working in theater productions with Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey, director of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. From 1985-87 he co-chaired the Electronic Music Department of the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He has collaborated frequently with Conlon Nancarrow, realizing the composer's piano roll compositions through various media. At the 1989 Composer-to-Composer conference in Telluride, Colorado, Trimpin created a Macintosh-controlled device that allowed one of Nancarrow's short studies for player piano to be performed by mallets striking 100 Dutch wooden shoes arranged in a horseshoe from the edge of the balcony at the Sheridan Opera House. He also prepared a performance of Nancarrow's studies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for New Music America in 1989. Trimpin now resides in Seattle where numerous instruments that defy description adorn his studio. In collaboration with Dr. Andrew Schloss and students from the Music and Visual Arts departments, a team of emerging sound engineers and musicians will join forces with Trimpin in constructing and installing an installation, while developing unique methodologies for activating and performing the installation as an enormous musical instrument. Trimpin will visit UVic from January 17 to 20 to introduce the project,conduct workshops with participants, and host a screening of Peter Esmondes documentary, TRIMPIN: the sound of invention. (Free and open to the public.)
21 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
28 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
February 2012Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
01 Visiting Artist program presents Elspeth Pratt @ 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Over the last twenty-five years, Vancouver artist Elspeth Pratt has developed a unique sculptural language that is largely dictated by her choice of materials and their juxtapositions. She has had numerous solo-shows including Second Date at Offsite, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Nonetheless at Charles H Scott Gallery in Vancouver, and Bluff at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. Selected group exhibitions include the travelling exhibition Silent As Glue in Oakville, Lethbridge and Victoria, Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons at Artspeak in Vancouver; the travelling exhibition Archetypes in Vancouver, Tokyo, and Sydney; and Weak Thought at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Pratt currently teaches visual art in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Her work is represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto. (Free and open to the public.)
Over the last twenty-five years, Vancouver artist Elspeth Pratt has developed a unique sculptural language that is largely dictated by her choice of materials and their juxtapositions. She has had numerous solo-shows including Second Date at Offsite, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Nonetheless at Charles H Scott Gallery in Vancouver, and Bluff at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. Selected group exhibitions include the travelling exhibition Silent As Glue in Oakville, Lethbridge and Victoria, Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons at Artspeak in Vancouver; the travelling exhibition Archetypes in Vancouver, Tokyo, and Sydney; and Weak Thought at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Pratt currently teaches visual art in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Her work is represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto. (Free and open to the public.)
04 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
11 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
18 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
22 Visiting Artist program presents Daniel Barrow @ 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Montreal-based artist Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies to present written,
pictorial, and cinematic narratives centering on the practices of drawing and collecting.
Since 1993, he has created and adapted comic book narratives to “manual” forms of
animation by projecting, layering, and manipulating drawings on an overhead projector.
Over the span of many years working as an image-maker and live performer, Barrow has
developed a personal language in which video alternately coalesces with drawings on an
overhead projector, with a live performer, as well as with gallery viewers. All of
Barrow’s work aims to collide popular imagery from the cultural and digital past with
emotional, usually melancholic, content. Barrow has performed and exhibited widely in
galleries and festivals throughout Canada and abroad. Selected performances and
exhibitions include; MOCA Massachusetts, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Te Tuhi Arts
Centre (Aukland NZ), Bil Bol Bul (Bologna), Branchange Projects (London), Musee
D’Art Contemporain (Montreal), International House (Philadelphia), The British Film
Institute (London), The National Gallery of Canada, The Museum of Contemporary Art
(Los Angeles), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), The Gene Siskel Film Center
(Chicago), and The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s 2009 Time-Based Art
Festival. Barrow is the 2007 winner of The Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-
Staunton award, the 2008 winner of the Images Festival’s Images Prize and the Sobey
Art Award 2010. Barrow is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto.
(Free and open to the public.)
Montreal-based artist Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies to present written,
pictorial, and cinematic narratives centering on the practices of drawing and collecting.
Since 1993, he has created and adapted comic book narratives to “manual” forms of
animation by projecting, layering, and manipulating drawings on an overhead projector.
Over the span of many years working as an image-maker and live performer, Barrow has
developed a personal language in which video alternately coalesces with drawings on an
overhead projector, with a live performer, as well as with gallery viewers. All of
Barrow’s work aims to collide popular imagery from the cultural and digital past with
emotional, usually melancholic, content. Barrow has performed and exhibited widely in
galleries and festivals throughout Canada and abroad. Selected performances and
exhibitions include; MOCA Massachusetts, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Te Tuhi Arts
Centre (Aukland NZ), Bil Bol Bul (Bologna), Branchange Projects (London), Musee
D’Art Contemporain (Montreal), International House (Philadelphia), The British Film
Institute (London), The National Gallery of Canada, The Museum of Contemporary Art
(Los Angeles), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), The Gene Siskel Film Center
(Chicago), and The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s 2009 Time-Based Art
Festival. Barrow is the 2007 winner of The Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-
Staunton award, the 2008 winner of the Images Festival’s Images Prize and the Sobey
Art Award 2010. Barrow is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto.
(Free and open to the public.)
25 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
29 Visiting Artist program presents Lee Henderson @ 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Prior to coming to the Writing Department at the University of Victoria 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. (Free and open to the public.)
March 2012Prior to coming to the Writing Department at the University of Victoria 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. (Free and open to the public.)
03 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
10 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
17 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
24 Life Drawing @ 10:00am - 1:00pm
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
Life Drawing sessions return.
Bring your own supplies.
First come, first served.
Saturday parking on campus is now $2.00.
Open to the public. ($5.00
)
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