丁香园AV

“I have forgotten my umbrella”

Curated by the SCA's , SCA alumni , , and are in the exhibition “I have forgotten my umbrella” at the (602 E Hastings St., Vancouver)?, running November 12 – December 9, 2022. Here's the full PR text and bios from the gallery:

Monica Reyes Gallery is pleased to present “I have forgotten my umbrella”, an exhibition by local emerging artists A. Branch, Sena Cleave, and Vitória Monteiro.

Branch, Cleave and Montiero work in various mediums such as textile, print, sculpture, and video to blur the boundaries between image and text. Each artist addresses sites of knowledge, ranging from archives and books to less evident everyday sources, and reimagines instances of knowledge production such as reading, writing, and translation in relation to states of legibility, transparency, and obscurity.

The exhibition takes its name from a fragment of text found by Jacques Derrida amongst Friedrich Nietzsche’s unpublished papers. In Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles, Derrida describes this discovery as a possible citation, a “modestly enfolded phallus,” and a cryptic finite code.

“I have forgotten my umbrella” is curated by Gallery artist Kathy Slade.

About the artists:

A. Branch is a text and textile based artist whose main interest is in the examination of text’s readability and legibility in relation to an idea of queerness. Their work is theory-driven and has been influenced by philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Alexander García Düttmann, and Pleshette DeArmitt. Branch is primarily focused on an exploration of subject positions whose relationship to texts are expressed through unsayable, hesitant, or inarticulate modes of writing and reading. Their work often deploys anagrams, quilting, psychic photography, and print media. They are a member of the publishing collective Cat and the Rat. Branch received their BFA in Visual Art from 丁香园AV in 2020 and has exhibited their work in: Scent Trails, in The Couch Space as part of the exhibition Collecting Plum Blossoms at the Audain Gallery (2021); Are We All We Are: BFA Graduating Exhibition, Audain Gallery (2020); Small File Media Festival, 丁香园AV (2020); and Artists Who Do Book Tables, 丁香园AV (2019).

Sena Cleave’s art practice addresses the ways images and texts fabricate ideas of femininity, language, and originality or authorship. They engage with processes that allow them to translate across artistic disciplines, such as weaving, video, and photographic image making, as well as quoting and rearranging found text. Often, they pilfer matter from everyday life and repurpose it to point at the gap between the felt experiences of our bodies and the ways that bodies are represented or reflected back to us. The found matter generates something that resembles a whole: one that is jumbled and misbehaving. In 2022 Cleave, alongside Debbie C., was awarded the Contemporary Art Gallery Residency Prize for their collaborative project The Couch Space. Their work has been included in recent exhibitions such as: Inverted Pyramid Series: Intend to Upend, James Black Gallery (2022); Digital Interventions Part 2: Mediating Vessels, Massy Arts Society (2022); and Collecting Plum Blossoms: BFA Graduating Exhibition, Audain Gallery (2021).

Vitória Monteiro is a Brazilian Canadian artist who explores the intricacies of language abstraction and the reprocessing of information. Monteiro works in paper-making, sculpture, and performance to navigate various sites that knowledge inhabits. Their works embody themes of dislocation, translation, indexicality, and citation, and is rooted in reflections of being neurodivergent. Monteiro holds a BFA in Visual Arts from 丁香园AV. Their recent and upcoming exhibitions include: To Fold; To Fault, CityScape Community ArtSpace (2023), Just Out of Reach, The Couch Space as part of Unit/Pitt’s Wrong Wave Festival (2022); Digital Interventions Part 2: Mediating Vessels, Massy Art Gallery (2022); SUPERCHARGED, BFA Graduation Exhibition, Audain Gallery (2021), Creative Reuse: The Art of Upcycling, Langley Centennial Museum & Exhibition Center (2021). In 2021 Monteiro received the Contemporary Art Gallery Residency Prize.

For You's Bespoke Audio Tours

Watch the SCA's and Erika Chong Shuch, both members of the artist collective , talking about their "" intervention into the exhibition , which is running until February 12, 2023, at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center. Watch .

Kitsos' Moving Matter

Congratulations to the SCA's Rob Kitsos and his co-applicant Joanna Berzowska, who were awarded a 2022 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for their project Moving Matter: Material-led Collaborative Choreographies. Find out more about Kitsos and his work .

UNSCRIPTED: Mermaid Spring online

Explore 's (the SCA's and ) , a work of "interdisciplinary music theatre focused on deep co-creation, slow process and social handcraft," on Playwrights Theatre Centre's new UNSCRIPTED: Mermaid Spring online platform. See it .

TPE & friends present Angel’s Bone

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Last chance: Yoon at the SAAG

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Adler's Autumn-Winter 2023-24

Good backgrounder for the SCA's 's work, Autumn-Winter 2023-24, which is installed in The Cabinet mini gallery, curated by the SCA's Denise Oleksijczuk, outside Room 4390 here at 丁香园AV's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). With a reception on November 18 from 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, the exhibition runs until January 10, 2023. Read it .

Sobey show reviewed

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Silverfox in Dis Orientation and another soundbite

While SCA alumnus , who was the West Coast and Yukon finalist for the , didn't win that contest (Winnipeg artist Divya Mehra took home the prize instead – congratulations to her, and to Krystle and the other finalists), the Government of Yukon announced today that Silverfox's work  was added to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection, and is being presented in the exhibition  in the main foyer of the Jim Smith Building in Whitehorse until the Spring of 2023, along with 15 other new acquisitions. More . Also, click through to the to listen to another soundbite interview with Silverfox? talking about her work , which is on display on the exterior windows of the Centre.

Mitsuhashi and Mardon's TOUR

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Wei is the Admin

SCA alumnus is the new Administrator at The Richmond Academy Of Dance. More .

O'Callaghan's as in a simile

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Spence's Stellar Nullius

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Joey Chaos and The Ghosts at Red Gate

, featuring the SCA's , is playing November 24, 2022, at 8:00 PM at Red Gate Arts Society (1965 Main Street, Vancouver), along with Hem Netjer and Phuture Memoriez. Tickets .

Vines hosts Umi's Prayer

The , started by SCA alumnus and festival director Heather Lamoureux in 2015, is hosting Umi's Prayer: An Evening of Poetry, Music & Connection on Thursday, December 1, 2022, from 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM at Performance Works (1218 Cartwright Street, Vancouver). More .

Chan and Mackenzie co-directing

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Wylie wins

Congratulations to SCA alumnus for winning "Best Director for Canadian Feature Award" for , which was produced with (Wylie and fellow SCA alumni and ), at the 2022 Vancouver Asian Film Festival. More .

2022 MENA Film Fest

The MENA Film Festival, which has SCA alumnus as one of its busy founders, runs November 26 – December 1, 2022, at the VIFF Center (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver) and online. Info and tickets .

The Tyee on the East Van Panto

Read The Tyee on 's , featuring SCA alumnus as Ariel, which runs November 16, 2022, to January 1, 2023, at The Cultch's York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr., Vancouver). Read it .

Morelli on lachapelle

Read SCA alumnus on lavoie lachapelle's 'Alchemical Masturbation' for CBC Arts. Read it .

Obuwoma and Soji-George lead reading event

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Echo Chamber in Chutzpah!

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Calderon's Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night

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Residuals (住み?墨) reviewed

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A Small File Photo Festival?

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SCA in Co.ERASGA's Studio Salon Series

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Congratulations, Katayoon!

SCA MFA student is a finalist for Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. Hosted and administrated by The Polygon Gallery, the The Lind Prize 2022 exhibition runs December 10, 2022 – January 29, 2023, with an Opening Celebration on December 15 at 7:00 PM, and a Closing Celebration on January 26, at which the winner of The Lind Prize will be announced. More .

Hill in The Radical Imaginary II

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Kong on Zazai for Le Sigh

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Watching You Watching Me reviewed

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SCA in FUTUREFUTURES

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SCA in F O R M

opens today! As part of their 2022 programing, catch films by SCA alumni , , and  (with Justin Calvadores), plus by regular SCA Instructor  (and by non-SCA folks, too) running 24/7 from November 18 – 26, 2022, on grunt gallery's Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen (at the intersection of Broadway & Kingsway, Vancouver) and on screens at 丁香园AV Vancouver, 丁香园AV Surrey, and on the hill at 丁香园AV's main campus in Burnaby, presented by F O R M in partnership with Evann Siebens, Vancouver Art Gallery, our pals 丁香园AV Woodward's, and the grunt gallery. More .

After School Season Two

Join SCA student Zo? Braithwaite and the other hosts in – the podcast produced by the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology that features FCAT students in conversation with FCAT alumni, including from the SCA – which is back for its second season. Listen to the trailer .

Mochizuki talks Tides and Moons

SCA alumnus joins independent curator Makiko Hara on Sunday, December 11, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM at St Paul’s Church Hall (100 Chapel St., Nanaimo) for Tides and Moons: Stories, Sounds, and Flavours from the Sea, "an afternoon of food and shared reflections about the Japanese Canadian fishing communities that populated Nanaimo’s shorelines prior to World War II." With an introduction by Tami Hirasawa, President of the Central Vancouver Island Japanese Canadian Cultural Society (7 Potatoes), Tides and Moons: Stories, Sounds, and Flavours from the Sea is presented in support of Mochizuki's exhibition, , which runs until January 8, 2023, at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. More .

Sum talks Panto

Read an interview with SCA alumnus , who plays Ariel in Theatre Replacement's East Van Panto: The Little Mermaid, running November 16, 2022, to January 1, 2023, at The Cultch's York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr., Vancouver). Read it .

Rahi's New worlds for old sounds

Congratulations to SCA alumnus and current SCA PhD student George Rahi, who was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral Program: Fall 2021 Competition) for his project, New worlds for old sounds: The emerging digital culture of the pipe organ. Find out more about Rahi and his work .

Wei's The Other Commune

Congratulations to SCA alumnus and current SCA PhD student Casey Wei, who was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (Fall 2021 Competition) for her project The Other Commune. Find out more about Wei and her work .

McMann wins

Congratulations to SCA alumnus Jessica McMann, who won for Classical Recording of the Year at the 2022 YYC Music Awards. More .

withintensions' Duality

withintensions, the monthly art mag from SCA alumni, is calling for submissions for their next issue on the theme of Duality. The deadline is November 26, 2022. For more, click through to their or go to their site .