Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth will feature Aboriginal Youth telling their own stories through visual and performance art and social media. The exhibit asks, what does it mean to be an urban aboriginal youth?
DEADLINE NOVEMBER 1, 2013
LINK to BC Culture Days: http://culturedays.ca/en/2013-activities/view/51d5d53d-072c-4789-9e3a-69614c4a89be
Come on down to grunt gallery on
at 1pm for a casual chat with Glenn Alteen, grunt’s programming director and co-founder.
Want to learn more about how an artist-run centre programs their exhibition schedule?
The background of how grunt first got started?
Tips on submitting art proposals to Vancouver-based Artist-Run Centres?
Pull up a seat, grab a cup of coffee and join in on the conversation.
Specialty coffee drinks will be available just outside grunt gallery from THE BEAN BUGGY, a local food/coffee truck. Check out their menu here: http://www.thebeanbuggy.com/menu.htm
Look forward to seeing you there!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/447726612010851/
Please be advised that the Annual General Meeting of the Visible Art Society (dba grunt gallery) will be held on Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 7:00pm at grunt gallery
#116 – 350 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5T 4R8
Members will be meeting for the following purposes:
1. To receive the March 31, 2013 Audited Financial Statements
2. To receive the Directors’ Reports
3. To elect the Society’s Officers
All members of the Visible Art Society are invited to attend. Only those members with paid membership dues will be eligible to vote. Membership dues must be paid by Wednesday, October 2 @ 5:00pm
We hope you’re having a fantastic summer!
grunt gallery spent our holiday vacation working on an exciting new project entitled,Mamook Ipsoot. In July, we brought Dutch artist Desiree Palmen to Vancouver to work on this project with 7 local Aboriginal Youth. The over several weeks to find a place in the city that is meaningful to them. The project involved the youth and the artist working to camouflage paint the youth into their chosen landscape.
We are now working on a publication filled with vibrant photos, power quotes from the participating youth and an overview of how this project evolved. This project is a wonderful opportunity to consider how Aboriginal youth relate to their city. It’s a way for the youth to explore their connection to their surroundings and affirm their presence.
Our goal is to raise $5,000 to print this publication, you can help by donating to ourIndiegogo campaign. Your contribution can turn this project into a legacy, ensuring that the impact will last for year’s to come.
Campaign URL: http://igg.me/at/mamookipsoot/x/480025
The Mamook Ipsoot project is currently taking place at grunt’s facility. Dutch artist, Desiree Palmen is in Vancouver until the end of July to work with seven Aboriginal youth. The project explores the youth’s connection to the urban landscape of Vancouver. The youth were asked to choose a specific location that is meaningful to them. Their relationship to the physical place is realized through a collaborative process that camouflage paints the youth into the environment.
grunt gallery is producing a new blog series to acknowledge and thank the dedicated volunteers who have been working with us over the past year!
Alex Pimm has been volunteering at grunt for over a year and is the only individual at grunt who has watched all of the videos in our archives. He’s helping grunt curate a new archives project that will expose a selection of video’s to the public.
Graceful in her principles, reserved in her rhetoric, generous in her practice, an artist, Colette Urban passed June 16, 2013. She was my teacher at the University of Western Ontario. I helped her install her exhibition, “Pin-Up” at grunt gallery the fall of 2011. There is a film about her work entitled, “Pretend Not To See Me, the Art of Colette Urban“. Her favourite film, if I recall correctly, was, “Last Year at Marienbad”.
Some will remember her at home, astride an elephant. I see an image, perhaps a mis-memory; just a flash of a figure, head-to-toe in black spandex, a shadow running through a Canadian shopping mall. A performance artist. Her body implicated in the work. The image, the experience amplified just enough for us to feel a whisper from another humanity. It is these most delicate connections that form the bonds of community. For some of us there is heroism in this work. She is missed.
Written by Demian Petryshyn
Colette Urban exhibited “Pin-Up” at grunt gallery in October-December, 2011.
Colette Urban Performed “Hoot” before a screening of “Pretend Not to see Me” at the Emily Carr campus November, 2011:
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Lecture: Towards a History of Artist-Run Archives in Canada: Traditional and Non-Traditional Forms, A Lecture by Kristie MacDonald.
Date: Wednesday June 19, 2013. 7pm.
Location: *Please note, change of venue* VIVO Media Arts Centre, 1965 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V5T 3C1
Vancouver, BC – grunt gallery, Western Front and VIVO Media Arts are pleased to announce that Kristie MacDonald will be presenting a talk on artist-run archives in Canada on Wednesday June 19, 2013 at 7pm. It will take place at VIVO Media Arts Centre. Her lecture, “Towards a History of Artist-Run Archives in Canada: Traditional and Non-Traditional Forms,” explores archives, collections and preservation initiatives within Canada’s artist-run community.
Since the advent of the artist-run movement in the late 1960s, ARCs have become sites of empowerment, providing a critical platform from which artists shape cultural policy and affect the writing of art history. Kristie MacDonald will discuss how ARC archives are significant resources, allowing centres to memorialize their development, inform the history of artist-run culture at large, and contribute to the art historical dialogue from the artist’s perspective.
Her lecture will also explore how the grass-roots approach to archiving in ARCs is a powerful political act that fosters historical consciousness amongst community members and provides a material culture from which to cultivate collective memory and generate written histories.
The talk will be followed by a Q&A period. This event is free to the public.
Bio:
Kristie MacDonald is an artist, archivist, and writer based in Toronto. Her art practice engages notions of the archive and the collection, as well as their roles in the evolving meanings and contextual histories of images and artifacts. She is currently the Archivist at Vtape, an artist-run centre specializing in independent video and media art. Her research and writing is focused on media art preservation and artist-run archives. She has recently presented at the Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference (2012, 2013) and the Independent Media Arts Alliance Summit (2012). Kristie holds a BFA from York University specializing in Visual Arts, and an MI from the University of Toronto specializing in Archives and Records Management.
Arts Umbrella is coordinating a show at grunt gallery for the Buschelen Mowatt Teen Visual Arts Scholarship Program Exhibition 2013.
“You and your family are cordially invited to attend the showing of your work followed by a reception on Saturday, June 15th from 3 to 5pm
Please RSVP by email if you can attend and for how many in your party to Sara Whitney at swhitney@artsumbrella.com OR by phone 604-681-5268 ext: 238 by Tuesday, June 11, 2013”