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REPOST @richmondartgallerybc - If you have not see

REPOST @richmondartgallerybc - If you have not seen FOODWAYS, consider this a nudge to visit the Richmond Art Gallery!

Showcasing artworks primarily from the 2010s to the present, FOODWAYS offers a collection (a buffet?) of works by artists who explore food and food cultures, addressing a rich range of questions regarding cultural identity, personal and collective narratives, colonialist histories, community, and the transmission of knowledge. These layered artworks are often intersectional and embodied in nature, highlighting how ethnicity, culture, kinship, socio-economic status, geography, and colonialist histories percolate through practices linked to food and food culture.

If you're a fan of the works of Derya Akay, Sara Angelucci, Jesse Birch, Patrick Cruz, Ellie Kyungran Heo, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Karen Tam, Tania Willard, Paul Wong, Marlene Yuen, and Shellie Zhang, you wouldn't want to miss this.

FOODWAYS is on view, but only until December 31, 2024.

Images: Installation photos from FOODWAYS, Photos by Michael Love (@mlovedocument)

Winners & Losers (2024) Video with sound 6:48min

Winners & Losers (2024)
Video with sound 6:48min

Premiering at COLLIDE Festival
Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2024
Russian Hall 600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver, BC

Winners & Losers is created using original video footage recorded by Paul Wong. This work shines a light on a piece of recent Vancouver history that many would prefer to forget: the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoff riots. The video puts together recordings of gatherings in the downtown core in and around the hockey arena, these recordings of crowds “celebrating” were made before, during and after several playoff games between the Vancouver Canucks vs Boston Bruins. Winners and Losers is a study of crowd euphoria that blurs behaviours pre and post winning or losing games. The Boston Bruins beat the Canucks 4-0 in game 7.

Collide has provided the ideal context to finally put together this single channel video of Winners & Losers. Two side-by-side, picture-in-pictures depict winners on the left screen and losers on the right screen. The background is an abstracted image of the highlights of game 7. The audio overlays the three ambient sounds of the three visual components, the sync sounds of the street crowd recordings with the hockey commentators voice and arena crowd reactions.

This is the second iteration of Winners & Losers. The first was the 2017 site specific video mapping event projected onto the façade of the Vancouver Art Gallery, North Plaza. This location was the site of the riots in 2011 in which the Vancouver Police stood down and retreated. Hockey is Canada’s national sport. It is an over-hyped corporate and media spectacle. #hockey #canucks #vancouver #riot #stanleycup #videoart

REPOST @currently_arts - Check out our amazing Und

REPOST @currently_arts - Check out our amazing UnderCurrents Exhibition artists:

Paul Wong is a pioneering figure, known for his innovative work in visual and media art. With a career spanning over five decades, Wong has continuously pushed the boundaries of storytelling, working outside mainstream conventions making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes. He is an award-winning artist and curator and founder of several artist-run groups, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. Wong has produced projects throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Whess Harman (he/they) is a member of the Carrier Wit'at Nation, a nation amalgamated by the federal government as the Lake Babine Nation. He currently resides on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. They don't like cops and believe in land sovereignty for Indigenous peoples all across the globe, including Palestine. In his arts practice he works primarily in drawing, text and textiles. As the curator at grunt gallery and occasional editor and contributor to a variety of small publications, he prioritizes emerging queer and BIPOC cultural workers and artists.

Anju experiments with texture, sound, images, and compositional structure in her practice and work as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, noise/sound artist, media artist, and curator. Her work engages in a practice of deconstruction and reanimation as process-based methods and plays with the application of contrasting themes and boundary/volume stressing experimental elements. As an interdisciplinary artist, she works in music, media arts, performance, theatre, film and opera.

Roxanne Nesbitt is a designer, musician, composer, and sound artist of Indo-Caribbean and European ancestry. Following formal studies in classical double bass and architecture, Roxanne works between the fields of music and design. Her research explores radical instrument design, the meeting place of composition and improvisation, sculptural ceramics and participatory sound installation. Roxanne collaborates with instrument designers, musicians, composers, and choreographer

Curve ! Women Carvers On The Northwest Coast Open

Curve ! Women Carvers On The Northwest Coast Opening Nov. 22, 2024 @audainartmuseum Historical and groundbreaking lineup of indigenous women carvers .
Curated by Dana Claxton @madetobeready Curtis Collins @curtisjosephcollins

@marikaswanart describes the beauty of The Dreamer

@marikaswanart describes the beauty of The Dreamer (2016) by @stephanie.anderson.art at opening of Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast. 14 women artists curated by Dana Claxton and Curtis Collins @audainartmuseum #indigenous #art class=

@currently_arts UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBITION Featuri

@currently_arts UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBITION

Featuring works by:

Paul Wong
Whess Harman
Anju Singh
Roxanne Nesbitt

UnderCurrents began as a study group made up of 7 experimental artists tasked with the mandate to research, explore, and study BIPOC experimental artists working, based, and/or living in the lower mainland in BC from 1970 to 2020. The purpose of the project was to ensure that the important histories and works of these artists are recognized, documented, and not forgotten.

The project was inspired by our experiences as a group, noticing that most existing documentation about art underrepresents BIPOC artists in experimental practices. To work differently in the present, we feel that we must honour the contributions and works created by the artists in the Vancouver area that started this work before us.

Each artist contributing to this exhibition has created a work following their research and learnings during their time in the study group.

Exhibition Opening @ 7PM
At Russian Hall 600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver, BC Stay tuned for more info about the artists!

Supported by The City of Vancouver, Russian Hall and British Columbia Arts Council
#experimental #interdisciplinary #drone #art #posters #noise #experimentalmusic #installation #experimentalinstruments

📣 Calling all OCAD University (@ocaduniversity)

📣 Calling all OCAD University (@ocaduniversity) Alumni!! OCAD University Alumni Relations and Admissions & Recruitment are pleased to invite you to an evening at the Richmond Art Gallery.

✨ OCAD University Lower Mainland Alumni Mixer
🗓️ Sunday, November 17, 2024
⏰ 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
🔗 RVSP with link in bio!

Come enjoy an engaging conversation about the exhibition, FOODWAYS, and an opportunity to connect with fellow Lower Mainland alumni. Guest artist Paul Wong (@therealpaulwong) will host a short talk on his work in this group exhibition, Mother’s Cupboard. In conversation with Angela Bains Advertising Programme Chair Faculty of Design and Associate Professor at OCAD University

Refreshments will be served.
RSVP required. The reservation limit per user is 2 guests.

Mother’s Cupboard
Paul Wong, 2019
9 ink jet prints (24″ x 36″)

Image1 Photo Kai Jacobson
Image 2 Photo Michael Love
Image 3 Photo Paul Wong

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@richmondartgallerybc ✨We continue our post seri

@richmondartgallerybc ✨We continue our post series on our exhibiting artists, and today we’re featuring Paul Wong!

Paul Wong (@therealpaulwong) is a pioneering figure, known for his innovative work in visual and #media art. With a career spanning over five decades, Wong has continuously pushed the boundaries of #storytelling, working outside mainstream conventions making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes. He is an award-winning #artist and #curator and founder of several #artistrun groups, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. Wong has produced projects throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

👉 View some of Wong’s amazing works in our upcoming exhibition, #FOODWAYS, opening this Saturday, October 19th.

📍Learn more about FOODWAYS with link in bio!

Image 1: Artwork detail, “Mother’s Cupboard” by Paul Wong, Courtesy of the artist
Image 2: Paul Wong. Photo by Philip Chin.

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@wallywoolbc oh just living legend punk art icon Paul Wong at the WallyWool showroom class=

American Women Making a Difference, quilt by Dr. J

American Women Making a Difference, quilt by Dr. Joan M.E. class=

Dana Claxton Pre-Occupied #@baltimoremuseumofart #

Dana Claxton Pre-Occupied #@baltimoremuseumofart class=

Dana Claxton exhibition Sparks @baltimoremuseumofa

Dana Claxton exhibition Sparks class=

This masterpiece is everything #namjunepaik Elect

This masterpiece is everything #namjunepaik Electronic Highway (1995) #videoart #neon @smithsonian class=

@ahvaubc Save the date! Join us on Wednesday, Octo

@ahvaubc Save the date! Join us on Wednesday, October 2, at 5:30 p.m. in Room 104, Frederic Lasserre Building, for an artist talk by Paul Wong as part of the 2024-25 Artist in Residence Program.

The talk will be introduced by Michael Dang, a PhD student in Art History, an alumnus of both the Critical and Curatorial Studies graduate program and the BA Art History, and recent curator of Unit Bruises: Theodor Wan and Paul Wong at Richmond Art Gallery.

Paul Wong will present his multiverse: an interdisciplinary art practice that spans fifty years. Celebrated as one of Canada’s pioneering video artists, Wong has been creating single- and multi-channel works for screens of all shapes, sizes, and lengths for festivals, artist-run galleries, museums, community centres, broadcast networks, and online platforms.
In this power hour, illustrated media presentation, Wong will rewind, play, and fast-forward through an eclectic range of past, present, and current projects-in-progress that will flow from early low-tech analogue experiments to new media explorations, and works on paper, photography, performance art, neon sculptures, and site-specific public art commissions. He will connect seemingly disparate projects by grounding them in form, content, and context and his radical body and identity politics.

The Artist in Residence Program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is made possible by the generous support of an anonymous donor. Past AHVA Artists in Residence have been Beau Dick, Stan Douglas, Germaine Koh, Marianne Nicolson, and Diamond Point.

We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

Image: Paul Wong, PechaKucha Night Vol. 57

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Repost from @audainprize - Here we take a closer l

Repost from @audainprize - Here we take a closer look at 2016 Audain Prize winner, Paul Wong’s, “Chinese Cafes - The Five Energies” from 1997, currently featured in the “Black and White and Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey,” exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Wong’s use of the multi-monochrome in this series reflects the five energies of the Taoist system: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Each colour, powerful on their own, work together in harmonious flow. Wong has previously done this series of prints in silkscreen with the addition of historic images and photographs documenting his own family’s restaurant business along with other Chinese cafes and restaurants in western Canada. The colours combined with these images add further reference to the process of Feng shui, a common practice for directing desirable flows.

Paul Wong
“Chinese Cafes—The Five Energies,” 1997
Screenprint on paper
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery
Gift from Rick Erickson & Donna Partridge, VAG 2023.25.34 a-e
VAG_023871 | Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery

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