Current Symposium 2.0 Opening Night
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DREAM OF A NEW FUTURE
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Co-presented by Emily Carr University of Art + Design / New Media + Sound Arts (NMSA)
Doors open at 6pm! We will be starting at 7pm sharp.
• 7:00pm Coast Salish welcoming ceremony by Cease Wyss
• 7:15pm Keynote & Presentation: Maria Chavez
• 8:00pm Performance: Abstract Turntablism by Maria Chavez
Art by Nathalee Paolinelli
T'uy't'tanat-CEASE WYSS
T'uy't'tanat- Cease is an interdisciplinary artist who works with new media and interdisciplinary arts as well as community engaged and public art. Cease is a Coast Salish ethnobotanist and is an emerging cedar and wool weaver with a textiles art practice that includes plant and other natural dyes. She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast and lives in East Vancouver.
MARIA CHAVEZ
Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, Maria Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Accidents, coincidence and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, sound installations and other works with her improvised solo turntable performance practice. Chavez has been a research fellow of the Sound Practice Research Department, Goldsmith’s University in London, a composer fellow with Civitella Ranieri in Umbertide, Italy, and an artist fellow at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida. She has participated in various artist residencies including the CEC Artslink/ Back Apartment residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, Kunstmeile Krems sound artist residency in Krems an der Donau, Austria; The Kitchen in New York and most recently as a guest artist in residence with the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, amongst many others.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at HeK – haus der elektronischen Künste-Basel, INKONST Art Center, Malmö, Sweden, The Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; The Getty Museum, L.A. and Documenta14 in Kassel, Germany. Her latest solo exhibition, Topography Of Sound: Peaks and Valleys, a painting show about the topography of vinyl records and needles, is on view at the Harnett Museum of Art in Richmond, Virginia. Her latest 4.1 spatial sound installation, The Center and Periphery, is being exhibited in the group show, Soundings, curated by Stephen Vitiello for the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech University.
NATHALEE PAOLINELLI
http://nathaleepaolinelli.website/
Over the past few years, Nathalee Paolinelli has turned to ceramics asa natural extension of her painting and sculptural practice. Favouring neither the formal nor the functional, Paolinelli embraces an amateur approach to the medium of clay. This consciously naïve logic makes each object unique, but it also strikes up subtle conversations with artists as varied as Lucio Fontana, Asger Jorn, Franz West and Mary Heilmann. For Paolinelli, the repetitious acts of rolling, shaping, patterning and painting slabs provide a ground on which these conversations can happen, but also where accidents, gravity, drips and slips are allowed to run strident once they enter the kiln. It is this negotiation between what the artist wants and what the material wants that provides each work with its own precarious and poetic tension.
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EVENT BY DONATION.
RSVP: https://current2018.eventbrite.ca/
Part of Current: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium 2.0
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CURRENT is a multidisciplinary, intersectional, music and electronic art symposium working with women and non-binary artists in Vancouver, BC and beyond. This second iteration will take place July 25th-29th in Vancouver and will feature music and art showcases as well as workshops, panels, and youth mentorships.
The goal of this symposium is to foster and disseminate feminist content through the cross-pollination of ideas, and intergenerational knowledge sharing. By offering free, public, all ages panels and accessible workshops, we wish to cultivate growth within the local community, and create a more equal landscape within the growing Electronic Arts ecology.
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We acknowledge that CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium is located in Vancouver on unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations on whose territory we work, live and play.
We thank the Province of British Columbia, City of Vancouver - Cultural Services, Creative BC, and The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR) for funding this initiative.
We also thank our 2018 partners BWSS Battered Women's Support Services, Basically Good Media Lab, Chapel Sound, Contrast Collective, Diversity: Arts Music & Entertainment, Elastic Collective, New Media + Sound Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, FIELD Contemporary, GENA, Girls Rock Camp Vancouver, Good Night Out Vancouver, INTERSESSIONS, Moniker Press, New Forms Media Society, the NFB, Nimbus School of Recording & Media, NuZi Collective, Subculture at Creative Coworkers, Sound Girls, TUF, Vancouver Art Book Fair, VIVO Media Arts Centre and the Warehouse at Eastside Studios for supporting this initiative.
This initiative is supported by: Aurora Cannabis, Merchant Advance Capital and Red Bull
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