Control
Curated by Christopher Davidson Contemporary textile art Supported by grants from the Canada Council and the BC Arts Council Control is comprised of two distinct bodies of textile work by Seong Eun Ahn and Sook He Park. While living and working on opposite coasts (Vancouver and Halifax, respectively), both artists use fibre art […]
[ESC] Electronic Social Culture
Supported by a grant from the Canada Council, Media Section Presented in collaboration with SAVAC [ESC] marks the culmination of a year long project undertaken in partnership with the South Asian Visual Arts Collective (SAVAC) in Toronto. Beginning in May 2002 with a workshop and discussion, [ESC] was conceived as a mentoring project […]
Invisible City
Two person exhibition: Video and photographic exhibition looking at the effects of globalization in Taiwan. Guest curator: Amy Cheng Huei-Hua Catalogue Centre A is pleased to present its largest international exhibition to date, featuring two of Taiwan’s leading contemporary artists, Chen Chieh-Jen and Yuan Goang-Ming. Chen Chieh-Jen is showing a series of large […]
Sunken Histories
Curator: Sadira Rodrigues An installation by Vancouver based artist Keith Langergräber. This installation work is part of a continuing commitment by Keith Langergräber to explore the entropic and decaying histories of abandoned sites in the landscape of British Columbia. He is interested in the ways in which the accumulation and reconstruction of materials […]
Australian Chinese
Photographs and performances presented in collaboration with Rumble Productions An exhibition of photographic works by Australian artist William Yang. Yang has been actively producing work since the early 1970s, and in addition to his photographic practice, Yang has also developed a theatrical method combining slide projections with monologues that have explored the intersection […]
Contemporary Noh Theatre Masks
Curator: Hank Bull
Waiting Room
Sculpture and video installation Curator: Sadira Rodrigues Jin’s Banana House exhibits an installation of video work by Jinhan Ko completed over the last several years. Drawing on, and often directly referencing, both the language of standup comedy, and the role of the storyteller, Ko beguiles the audience with his particular brand of charm, […]
Exhumed: Deliberating R.M Khomeini
Lecture and text by Rahat Kurd Curators: Hank Bull and Sadira Rodrigues The first solo exhibition of work by Vancouver based artist, Mo Sa’lemy focuses on the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution from 1977 till his death in June 1989. Using images taken from magazines, newspapers, the television and other […]
Chinatown Modern
Location Chinese Cultural Centre, 50 East Pender Street, Vancouver Chinatown Modern was a collaborative artist-research project between Centre A and artist Steven Tong, that sought to increase the public’s awareness of Vancouver contemporary (modern) art and culture produced by residents of Asian descent. One key aim of this project was to celebrate the […]
Capital Cities
Sylvia Grace Borda Artist Talk Wednesday June 12, 2002 at 7pm Capital Cities presented a series of colour and black and white photographs of specific locations in Tokyo and London taken between 1997 and 2002. The photographs of Sylvia Borda contemplate the emergence of a transnational, ‘supermodernist’ architectural aesthetic, whose forms are repeated in […]
