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Dynamo Lines & Trapez

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This beautiful GIF was created from images taken of TRAPEZ which occurred at New Forms Festival in mid-September.

On Thursday Sept 12th, Josephin Böttger and Sergej Tolksdorf performed alongside projections with a project entitled DYNAMO LINES. Read a short interview with Josephin over at CiTR’s website.

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Coffee with the Programming Director

LINK to BC Culture Days: http://culturedays.ca/en/2013-activities/view/51d5d53d-072c-4789-9e3a-69614c4a89be

Come on down to grunt gallery on

Saturday September 28th

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/

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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

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Mamook Ipsoot Indiegogo Campaign

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.

Visit our Indiegogo campaign page for more details and a list of gifted perks that you could receive for giving to this initiative!

Campaign URL: http://igg.me/at/mamookipsoot/x/480025

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Mamook Ipsoot: Week 1 + 2

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.

mamook photo!

“It’s a way for the youth to explore their connection to their surroundings and affirm their presence.”
– Desiree Palmen, artist.

Read an article on this project from local newspaper, The Source.

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grunt Volunteers: Meet Alex Pimm

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.

Microsoft Word - volunteer info sheet-alex.docx

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In memory of Colette Urban

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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