Anything But Its Own Uncovering
28 Oct 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 0 Comments
“I think institutions perform their independence in order to survive and be able to receive the little financial support that is available. I think that as an institution there is a certain performativity of independence that calls for constant posing as the alternative to the official discourse. But with ACAF, on a working level, we’ve tried to avoid that as much as we can.” —Bassam el Baroni (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum)
Continue Reading...The Museum Formerly Known as Centre A
27 Apr 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 0 Comments
For the past 10 years, Centre A — Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art — has been a vigorous anomaly in the contemporary art scene in Vancouver. The institution straddles the roles of artist-run centre and public gallery, as it focuses on connecting artistic practices from across the pacific region
Continue Reading...25 Years Into the Future: EMMEDIA’s Expanded Standard Timeline
25 Sep 2010, Posted in Art Reviews, 0 Comments
For anyone who has worked in a community or institution for a long time, there comes a point when one recognizes that the cycle of forgetting shapes our histories as much as our memories. Perhaps in an attempt to make something new, to further progress, each generation of practitioners enacts a sort of willful blindness to history. Yet this cycle slows our movement forward, as new leaders often work in a historical vacuum, reinventing the wheel ad nauseam, without critically challenging earlier attempts at the same thing.
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