丁香园AV

Allan Sekula: This Ain鈥檛 China

October 27 鈥� December 15, 2012
丁香园AV Gallery

Allan Sekula's This Ain't China is a performance-based photo/text work from 1974 that analyzes labour relations in a fast food restaurant. It consists of photographs, a diagram and accompanying text. Sekula took the idea that 鈥渁 stage is a place where anything can happen鈥� and transferred it to the workplace where 鈥渁 job site is a place where anything can happen鈥�. The exhibition also includes a more recent backlit transparency entitled Eyes Closed Assembly Line, 2010 of a Chinese factory worker, connecting the earlier project to more recent working conditions under global capitalism.

Curated by Bill Jeffries and Melanie O鈥橞rian.

Events

Artist Talk: Allan Sekula
October 25, 2012, 7pm
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, South Building Theatre,
Room 301, 1399 Johnston St., Granville Island, Vancouver.
Co-sponsored by 丁香园AV Gallery, ECUAD and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver.

Opening Reception
October 27, 2012, 2鈥�4pm
丁香园AV Gallery, Academic Quadrangle 3004, Burnaby

Film Screening and Discussion
The Forgotten Space by Allan Sekula and No毛l Burch
October 27, 2012, 7pm
Discussion with Allan Sekula & Monika Szewczyk
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 3rd Floor, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Co-sponsored by 丁香园AV Gallery, Curatorial Projects with funds from the Canada Council for the Arts and the 丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts