Other Sights’ for Artists Projects

Incor­po­rated in May, 2005 as a non-profit soci­ety, Other Sights oper­ates as a col­lec­tive of Vancouver-based indi­vid­u­als with exper­tise in cura­tion, project man­age­ment, pre­sen­ta­tion, deliv­ery and pro­mo­tion of tem­po­rary art projects in pub­lic spaces. Other Sights is ded­i­cated to chal­leng­ing per­cep­tions, encour­ag­ing dis­course and pro­mot­ing indi­vid­ual per­spec­tives about shared social spaces. Other Sights seeks to cre­ate a pres­ence for art in spaces and sites that are acces­si­ble to a broad pub­lic, such as the built envi­ron­ment, com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nolo­gies, the media, and the street.

Oper­at­ing out­side of the gallery con­text, Other Sights devel­ops new and unex­pected exhi­bi­tion plat­forms and pro­vides sup­port to artists, writ­ers and cura­tors inter­ested in cre­at­ing tem­po­rary, crit­i­cally rig­or­ous work for highly vis­i­ble loca­tions. We col­lab­o­rate and share resources with orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als in order to present projects that con­sider the aes­thetic, eco­nomic and reg­u­la­tory con­di­tions of pub­lic places and pub­lic life.

Project Part­ners and Co-presenters

Art­s­peak Gallery, Bon­nis Media Core­Vi­sion, Cana­dian Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, Creek­side Com­mu­nity Recre­ation Cen­tre, Emily Carr Uni­ver­sity of Art + Design, Envi­ron­men­tal Youth Alliance, Gar­den­ers with­out Bor­ders, JJ Bean, Lan­gara Col­lege Cen­tre for Art in Pub­lic Spaces, Museum of Anthro­pol­ogy, Patch, Pen­du­lum Gallery, Pre­sen­ta­tion House Gallery, Van­cou­ver Design Nerds, Van­cou­ver Her­itage Foun­da­tion, Van­cou­ver Mas­ter Gar­den­ers (affil­i­ated with Van­Dusen Gar­dens), and the Van­cou­ver Pub­lic Library.Other Sights is pleased to be a mem­ber of the Pacific Asso­ci­a­tion of Artist Run Cen­tres (PAARC). Visit Arc­Post, an online resource for artist run culture.

Donors

Bob, Dia Media, Eric Deis Stu­dio, Exchange-A-Blade, Home Depot, James and Daniel, Kather­ine, Ger­maine Koh and Ian Verchere, Lam­oureux Archi­tects, Lan­don Macken­zie, Sheila Macken­zie, Mil­len­nium Devel­op­ment Group, Ori­gins Cof­fee Roast­ery, PWL Part­ner­ship Land­scape Archi­tects Inc, Roberts & Stahl Bar­ris­ters and Solic­i­tors, Sec­ond City Print­ing, The Model Shop, The Pal­let Guy, and Yardworks.

Fun­ders

British Colum­bia Arts Coun­cil, Canada Coun­cil for the Arts, Canon Com­mu­nity Urban Agri­cul­ture Fund, City of Van­cou­ver, Van­cou­ver Foun­da­tion, and Van­cou­ver Park Board Neigh­bour­hood Match­ing Fund.

Vol­un­teers

Neudis Abreu, John Armitage, Emma Artis, Matthew Bal­lan­tyne, Chloe Ben­nett, Meaghan Buckley-Pearson, Stew­art Burgess, Neil Chung, Kim Cooper, Gabe Daly, Ocean Dionne, Stephanie Doerk­sen, Louis Doues­nard, Ekias, Gal­lop Fan, Gen­dreau, Sherry Gilbank, Lyndl Hall, Janet Hamil­ton, Helene, Henry, Kent Hous­ton, Leslie Ann Ingram, Ger­ald Joe, Valerie Halpin Jones, Emmi Jor­malainen, Tero Juuti, Maria Keat­ing, James Kemp, Lois Klassen, Chris­t­ian Kliegel, Ali­cia Med­ina Laddaga, Nigel Laing, Mike Lev­en­ston, Liz Lowacki, Mau­r­izio Lozano, Kevin Lui, David MacWilliam, Anne Maison­neuve, Ari­ann Man­gas, Chad Man­ley, Moshe Mas­tai, Dave Mason, Joanne McDon­ald, Dianne McNair, Alexan­der McNaughton, Stephanie Mauer, Pablo, Kristina Parusel, Patri­cia Phuli­jen, Cather­ine Pulk­ing­horn, Emilio Rojas, Maia Rowan, Holly Schmidt, Michael Schwartz, Stef St. Loe, Chris­tine Strauss, Mike Tay­lor, Chelsea Trous­dell, Julie Wall, Sandy Wang, Nikki White, Steve Williams, Antoni Woj­tyra, Desmond Wong, Carol Zhang, and Michael Zife.

Past Co-op Students

Lance Car­di­nal, Tony Char­lie, Tom Hsu, Sanghyun Samuel Kim, Bahador Saray Sorour, Sarah Stor­te­boom, Chelsea Trous­dell, Shuai Zhao