TO|FROM BC ELECTRIC RAILWAY 100 YEARS: Culture Days in Canada Walking Tours
By Jorma Kujala This week two free walking tours of the historic BC Electric Railway building, home of Centre A, takes place on Friday, September 28 and Saturday, September 29 from 2-3 pm. This 1912 building was constructed at a time when the BC Electric Railway Company operated the most extensive interurban (or intercity electric […]
This Sorrowful World: Artist Marina Roy on Fire/Fire
By Jessa Alston-O’Connor In Fire/Fire, the works of contemporary artists Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan draw from 19th century Japanese Ukiyo-e prints of Kawabata Kyosai and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, grounding them in the context of today’s Vancouver through animation, site-specific installation and aquatic-life in the gallery. The tradition of Ukiyo-e prints (translated to mean “pictures of […]
Finding the origins of Yellow Signal in Jiangnan
by Jessa Alston O’Conner As Yellow Signal exhibitions continue across Vancouver over the next several months, it is worth exploring more about the origins for this city-wide project that date back 15 years. In 1998, Jiangnan: Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yanzi River was a major exhibition series across Vancouver on a […]
Finding Life & Humor in the World Around Us: Kan Xuan in Yellow Signal
By: Rachel Ozerkevich Kan Xuan is one of the artists featured in Centre A’s current Exhibition, Yellow Signal: New Media in China. Xuan is a contemporary female artist working in a still male-dominated field, and her participation in the exhibition provides us with an exciting insight into her unique creative process and film projects. Currently […]
Curator’s Talk with Shengtian Zheng
To those who missed it or want to see it again, here are the video documentations of the Curator’s Talk with Shengtian Zheng for Yellow Signal: New Media in China at Centre A on March 16th, 2012: [vimeo 39515511 nolink] Part One: Introduction to ‘Yellow Signal’ [vimeo 39496407 nolink] Part Two: History of Chinese Media […]
