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Sun, Sweat, Skirt, Fan<\/em> Curated by Natalie Tan<\/p>\n September 8 – 29, 2018<\/p>\n Opening Reception: September 7, 2018 | 7-10pm Lead Patrons: Anndraya Luui and Denis Walz<\/p>\n This exhibition takes place on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.<\/p>\n Centre A is excited to present Sun, Sweat, Skirt, Fan<\/em>, Singaporean artist Ho Rui An\u2019s first solo exhibition in Canada. The exhibition features two works: Solar: A Meltdown<\/em> (2014-) and Great Fans (Assortment)<\/em> (2018). Solar: A Meltdown<\/em> is a performance lecture that begins in Amsterdam\u2019s Tropenmuseum, at the sweaty back of a wax figure of Dutch anthropologist Charles Le Roux, and from there navigates tropes of sweltering tropical heat and perspiration to examine the relationship between the Empire and the colonial subject. Drawing upon historical and fictional media, Ho looks at the establishment of an imperial global domestic\u2014an all-encompassing, air-conditioned planetary interior\u2014held together by the labour of those at the margins. Departing from the historical, Ho reflects upon an underclass of invisible workers in our current periphery, and the contemporary resonances of how colonial histories remain and inform how the world is structured. Great Fans (Assortment)<\/em> is a new work that draws upon an inventory of what Ho describes as \u201ctropicopolitan objects\u201d. Centre A invites Ho and his work to Vancouver as a means to facilitate a broader consideration of the historical and ongoing impact of British colonialism on Asian bodies in both global and local contexts.<\/p>\n Sun, Sweat, Skirt, Fan<\/em> will be accompanied by a performance lecture<\/strong> by the artist at Centre A titled Tropicopolitan Objects<\/em> on September 14th at 6:30pm<\/strong>. Drawing upon Srinivas Aravamudan\u2019s concept of the tropicopolitan<\/em>, which reads the colonized subjects living in the tropics as both fleshy bodies in time and space and fictive tropes constructed by the colonial project, this lecture rewrites the history of European colonialism as an inventory of objects: from the instrument of \u201csun-writing\u201d that is the heliograph to the all-encompassing skirt of a certain Anna Leonowens. RSVP is required, as space is limited.<\/p>\n Ho Rui An<\/a> is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. He writes, talks and thinks around images, with an interest in investigating their emergence, transmission and disappearance within contexts of globalism and governance. He has presented projects at the Gwangju Biennale (2018), Yinchuan Biennale (2018), Jakarta Biennale (2017), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014), Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017), Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila (2017), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2017), NUS Museum, Singapore (2016), Para Site, Hong Kong (2015), Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson (2015) and Witte de With, Rotterdam (2014). He is a recipient of the 2018 DAAD Berliner K\u00fcnstlerprogramm. He lives and works in Singapore and Berlin.<\/p>\n Sun, Sweat, Skirt, Fan<\/i> takes place in the Byron Aceman & Caron Bernstein New Media Gallery.<\/p>\n PUBLIC PROGRAMMING<\/u> <\/p>\n Concurrent to this exhibition is an installation entitled Papag<\/em> in the storefront\/reading room by Christian Vistan with a sound work by Yu Su, organized by Shizen Jambor.<\/p>\n Christian Vistan\u2019s installation, <\/span>Papag<\/span><\/i>, features a custom built papag (daybed) and a sound work by Yu Su in Centre A\u2019s storefront\/reading room on the second floor of the Sun Wah Centre. Currently home to part of Centre A\u2019s collection of art books, monographs, catalogues, and artist publications, the storefront and these books are the centre\u2019s primary interface with the public. A wooden bed (originally from the Philippines, but common all throughout parts of Asia) usually made of bamboo and other local materials (in this case bamboo, spruce, pine, fir, and cedar), used to sit, eat, sleep, and gossip on, sits in this threshold.<\/span><\/p>\n Emitting from beneath the bed, sampled sounds from a mall, a Canto pop song, and gongs, mallets, and bamboo, momentarily fill the space.\u00a0<\/span>Yu Su\u2019s sound work considers the sonic interface the space becomes, as the mall<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s afternoon activities echo within the muffled soundscape of the carpeted storefront\/reading room\/gallery. <\/span><\/p>\n Within the environment of the mall, <\/span>Papag<\/span><\/i> considers everyday supports and their quotidian use and construction<\/span> as<\/span> shared and public spaces that<\/span> describe multiple uses, as sites<\/span> for expression as well as for negotiations between occupants. <\/span><\/p>\n Activating the <\/span>Papag <\/span><\/i>as an interstitial space where mall ambience, Canto pop, the sounds of mallets, gongs, and bamboo meet, over the next three weeks, artists and writers to lead a series of casual listening sessions. Keeping with the spirit of the papag as a space for sharing, negotiation, and being together, these sessions are meant to function like a conversation–all listeners are encouraged to bring music, sounds, or recordings to listen to and share.<\/span><\/p>\n On Thursday, September 13, 2018<\/strong> Simon Grefiel and Christian Vistan will lead the listening session playing Kalinga, Music from the Mountain Provinces, Dr Jose Maceda, Budots<\/em>, and more. Subsequent sessions will be lead by Shizen Jambor on Thursday, September 20th, and Dana Qaddah on Thursday September 27th.<\/p>\n Continuing to explore <\/span>Papag<\/span><\/i> as a platform for gathering, sitting, reading, listening, and speaking together, the second part of this project will see the papag pull together words, thoughts, and interactions by artists and writers invited to contribute to an upcoming publication, tentatively titled \u2018pa-pag-page,\u2019 to be produced and edited by Christian Vistan and Shizen Jambor, set to launch later this fall. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christian Vistan<\/span> is a Filipino Canadian artist originally from Bataan, a peninsular province in the Philippines. Currently based out of both Delta and Vancouver, BC, his movement living and working within these port cities informs his work. In transit, he observes his body with its particular set of histories and materials move through a space with its own set of histories and materials: language, water, colonizations, industry, labours, migrations, familial histories. His paintings, texts, and installations, engages with these histories and materials as way to examine his own hybridity and the embodied processes and experience of displacement and diaspora. <\/span>His work has been shown in Canada, US, and Philippines at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, GUM in Ladner, BC, Kamias Triennale in Quezon City, Artspeak in Vancouver, mild climate in Nashville, and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. From 2016 – 2017, he held the position of Curatorial Assistant at Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, where he curated and contributed to various projects and exhibition. From 2017-2018, he took part in the Studio for Emerging Writers at Artspeak where he published his chapbook ‘a lot, a lot’.<\/span><\/p>\n Coming from a classical piano background of training, Kaifeng-born, Vancouver based Yu Su arrived as a sound artist and composer by corresponding audible elements freely between the cosmological Daoist mandate and the ecological properties of the Pacific Northwest. Tapping into an expansive repertoire of New Age, library music, meditative jazz and house, Yu Su\u2019s emotion-packed compositional punches are best described as organically groovy jazz-bient expeditions between coasts. A proficient instrumentalist who conjures up moments of natural and synthetic beauty, her delicate, dub-inflected signature balances a variety of luminous and wistful downtempo textures. She is responsible for productions on DC\u2019s People\u2019s Potential Unlimited, NYC\u2019s RVNG Intl. & Arcane, and The Hague-based Wichelroede. Presented through various art institutions and galleries, she also delivers intensive studies on acoustic soundscape, cultural exchange, and an ongoing response to the history of ambient music. Recent commissioned projects and installations have included performances at FUSE (Vancouver Art Gallery) and Western Front, Mutek Montreal (Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Arts Technologiques); fellowship at artist-run-centre 221A; and concert at Contemporary Art Gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Papag<\/span><\/i> was originally commissioned by Vines Art Festival for the 2018 Vines Art Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sun, Sweat, Skirt, Fan Ho Rui An Curated by Natalie Tan September 8 – 29, 2018 Opening Reception: September 7, 2018 | 7-10pm Tropicopolitan Objects (performance lecture): September Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[25,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHo Rui An<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTropicopolitan Objects<\/em> (performance lecture): September 14th 2018, 6:30pm<\/p>\n
\nTropicopolitan Objects<\/em>: a performance lecture by Ho Rui An
\nSeptember 14, 2018
\n6:30pm
\nat Centre A
\nRSVP is required. Please register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n