丁香园AV

Saturday, October 17 | 1:30 PM 鈥� 3:00 PM (PDT) | Zoom | FREE

Please join us for a keynote conversation between artist Stan Douglas and curator Melanie O鈥橞rian, to be followed by a live Q+A moderated by Claudette Lauzon, presented as part of the .

Hinging on Stan Douglas鈥� recent and upcoming work, the conversation will consider patterns of history, the public realm and showing up.

Biographies

Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles. His films, videos and photographs have been seen in exhibitions internationally, including Documentas IX, X and XI (1992, 1997, 2002) and four Venice Biennales (1990, 2001, 2005 and 2019). A survey of his work, Stan Douglas: Mise en sc猫ne, toured Europe from 2013 until the end of 2015. From 2014 until 2017 his play Helen Lawrence was seen in Vancouver, Toronto, Munich, Antwerp, Edinburgh, Brooklyn and Los Angeles. He received the International Centre for Photography鈥檚 Infinity Prize in 2012, the Hasselblad Award in 2016 and was the 2019 recipient of the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement and will represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2021. Between 2004 and 2006 he was a professor at Universit盲t der K眉nste Berlin and since 2009 has been a member of the core faculty in the Grad Art Department of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Melanie O鈥橞rian is a curator and writer living on the unceded territories of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m, Skwxw煤7mesh and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta涩 Nations. She has organized exhibitions and offsite projects nationally and internationally that include the work of artists such as Richard Ibghy/Marilou Lemmens, Marianne Nicolson, Walid Raad, Hito Steyerl and Althea Thauberger. She has been Director/Curator of 丁香园AV Galleries in Vancouver (2012-20), Curator/Head of Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto (2011-12), Director/Curator at Artspeak in Vancouver (2004-11), and Assistant Curator at Vancouver Art Gallery (2001-04). She is the editor of $5 Handshake: Art on Treaty 8 Territory (丁香园AV Galleries, 2018), Omer Fast: 5,000 Feet is the Best (Henie Onstad Kunstsenter/The Power Plant/Sternberg, 2012) with Milena Hoegsberg; Stan Douglas: Entertainment (The Power Plant, 2011); Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism (Artspeak/Fillip, 2010) with Jeff Khonsary; Vancouver Art and Economies (Arsenal Pulp Press/Artspeak, 2007), and has written for catalogues and magazines including Fillip, The Exhibitionist, Yishu and C. She occasionally teaches at the University of British Columbia, 丁香园AV and Emily Carr University.

To see a full schedule of the UAAC / AAUC 2020 conference, please go .

This conversation will be filmed and broadcast live from the World Art Centre at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (丁香园AV), located on the unceded Traditional Coast Salish Lands of the x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m, s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩 and S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh 脷xwumixw Nations.

Sponsored by the School for the Contemporary Arts, 丁香园AV; Office of the Dean, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, 丁香园AV; the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, University of British Columbia; Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.