Upcoming
When the Hosts Come Home
T + T (Tony Romano and Tyler Brett)
False Creek
Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver
February 5 – March 3, 2010
curated by Patrik Andersson
Köbberling & Kaltwasser
The Games are Open
SEFC outdoor site
August – November, 2010
curated by Barbara Cole
The Bomfords
SEFC outdoor site
Upcoming, 2011
curated by Barbara Cole
In April, after the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic athletes have gathered their medals and returned to their respective countries, Vancouver’s Olympic Village will be transformed from dormitory to “home” as thousands of condominium owners begin the process of colonizing the new neighbourhood of Southeast False Creek. This period of transition will prompt retrospection, causing hosts, be they elated or fed-up, to reflect on how their understanding and experience of place was altered by the impact of the mass spectacle of the Winter Olympics.
Southeast False Creek was planned as a “model sustainable development” – one that promotes green building practices, environmental responsibility, and alternative transportation choices. Consistent with this imperative, When the Hosts Come Home invites three artist teams whose practices incorporate the use of recycled and refurbished materials, to create temporary, site specific sculptural works that address the meaning of “legacy” in relation to False Creek. Whether creating temporary ‘habitat’, structures that reference hierarchies, or pavilions for wishful uses, all three teams respond to social moments and promote public agency. Their work uses informal methods to make visible the transformation of begged, borrowed, donated, salvaged, and found materials into publicly used objects and spaces.
Other Sights gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, Gaming Commission of BC, and the City of Vancouver.
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T & T (Tony Romano and Tyler Brett)
Curated by Patrik Andersson
Pendulum Gallery, HSBC Building Atrium
885 West Georgia St.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
pendulumgallery.bc.ca
February 5 – March 3, 2010
Curator's Talk: Friday, February 19, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
False Creek was commissioned by the Pendulum Gallery to coincide with the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and is a participating exhibition in Other Sight's three part series When the Hosts Come Home. Installed in HSBC’s main office building in downtown Vancouver, False Creek comprises three sculptural assemblages, a panoramic print and a children’s colouring centre. Designed by Canadian artists T&T (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano), the exhibition temporarily transforms the corporate environment of a bank and public atrium into an optimistic post-apocalyptic environment.
The work of T&T reflects on ideas of sustainability, green architecture and technological progress. Their artworks frequently include elements of natural systems such as solar power and organic filters in conjunction with recycled and reconfigured technology. Over the course of their diverse artistic practice, they have developed a survivalist-informed aesthetic, creating whimsical, yet critically considered artworks that provide astute commentary on our historical moment.
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Aaron Carpenter
dual outdoor screens located at the intersection of
Robson and Granville Streets
May 15 - 24, 2009
every 3 minutes for 10 days
This is an Artspeak OFFSITE project co-presented with Other Sights for Artists' Projects.
Viewing and drinks, Friday, May 15, 6-8pm at the Lennox Pub
(800 Granville Street).
As an OFFSITE extension of the Literally exhibition currently installed at Artspeak, Aaron Carpenter’s new video, Ffinnigans Wwake, will be shown on the outdoor screens at Robson and Granville Streets. In consort with his drawings for the exhibition, Carpenter has taken James Joyce’s text and rendered it as a dramatic text crawl akin to the one at the opening of the Star Wars films. Intrigued (and perplexed) by Finnegans Wake’s multi-lingual puns, fractured dream narratives, and language experiments, Carpenter’s work conflates Joyce’s impenetrable opus with the disparately populist genre that is science fiction. Taking this notoriously difficult and experimental work of literature to filmic proportions, specifically referencing science fiction films, Carpenter sets up an interesting parallel; Joyce’s work is meant to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams, and science fiction (as both a literary and cinematic genre) is a fantasy based on speculative scientific discoveries and parallel universes.
Artspeak gratefully acknowledges the support from The Canada Council for the Arts, the province of BC through the BC Arts Council and the Gaming Commission, the City of Vancouver, and our donors.
Pipilotti Rist
Open My Glade
presented on the Bonnis Media
CoreVision
dual outdoor screens
located at the intersection of
Robson and Granville Streets
Vancouver, Canada
February 13 – 22, 2009
every 3 minutes for 10 days
Other Sights is pleased to present Open My Glade by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist. The artwork consists of a series of 9 one-minute videos inserted into the flow of outdoor advertising screens. The work’s sardonic humour and insights intrude on our encounter with urban social space and exert a powerful and sensual presence.
Originally commissioned in 2000 by the Public Art Fund as a presence within the electronic maze of Times Square in New York City, the artist is literally immersed in the corporate stream of images. Eyes fixed on the passersby, she viscerally examines the limits of the screen’s surface; her contorted face and makeup smears reveal a barrier to escape. Open My Glade disrupts our habitual ambivalence to a relentless consumer spectacle, instilling empathy; we can’t help but watch.
Colin Griffiths, curatorPipilotti Rist is one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation; her most recent solo show was at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which closed on February 2nd. She is currently in Vienna completing "Pepperminta", her first feature length film, which will launch in March.
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Contact: Barbara Cole
Image © Pipilotti Rist.
Video still from Open My Glade (2000), courtesy the artist
and Hauser & Wirth Zurich London.
Other Sights gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council and the BC Arts Council
Shaun Gladwell
STORM SEQUENCE (excerpt)
Presented on the LED screens
Robson and Granville Streets, Vancouver
January 15 – 25, 2009
every 3 minutes, 24 hours per day
Guest Curator: Karen Henry
Other Sights is pleased to present an excerpt from Storm Sequence, by Australian artist Shaun Gladwell. Although filmed on the other side of the world, Storm Sequence evokes our own rainy coast in conjunction with the global urban subculture of skateboarding.
In Storm Sequence, the drama and grandeur of a traditional painting of a storm at sea is integrated with the performance of a young man skateboarding on the concrete pilings, caught in that moment of heightened energy just before the storm breaks. Gladwell’s skateboarder depicts a romantic figure of the beauty and self-absorption of youth, and slowing the speed of the image emphasizes the agility and grace of his movement. Gladwell’s work typically explores youth subcultures as a manifestation of physical prowess in relation to urban commerce and architectural space. He positions his work within a tradition of artistic gestures that respond to the city.
Storm Sequence is the second project of Looking Up, a curated series of artists’ works that engage with public space and civic agency, presented by Other Sights for Artists' Projects Association.
Contact: Barbara Cole
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Image © Shaun Gladwell
Video still from Storm Sequence, 2000 , courtesy the artist & Anna Schwartz Gallery,
Sydney, Australia
Other Sights gratefully acknowledges the support of the BC Arts Council and the
Canada Council for the Arts
MARKO SIMCIC
PARK Launch Event
Saturday, November 29, 2008, 4 to 6 pm
Pendulum Gallery
HSBC Building
885 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC
The Park Launch Event was a co-presentation by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, Other Sights for Artists Projects, and Pendulum Gallery. A public reception to mark the end of the exhibition at the Pendulum Gallery was followed by a celebration of the sculptures’ arrival at their first host site on Ontario Street via tow trucks. Special guests Stefan Smulovitz and Viviane Houle performed sound improvisations inspired by Park at both locations.
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Park is a project for the Ontario Street Greenway by Vancouver-based artist and architect Marko Simcic. Commissioned by the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program, Park consists of two mobile, stainless steel sculptures, each approximately the size and weight of a small automobile. The sculptures will occupy curb lane parking spots and will be relocated from time to time to various addresses along Ontario Street. Whether adjacent to public sites such as schools or parks, commercial properties, or permitted to occupy residential parking through their ‘adoption’ by Ontario Street residents, Park tracks the many forms by which the street, our most symbolic public space, is regulated. Park is programmed to occupy sites along the Ontario Street Greenway through to 2012. The future public presence of Park, in large part, will depend upon ongoing interest and participation by the citizens of Vancouver.
Launch Event Coordinator: Barbara Cole
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Press
Download "Marko Simcic, Park" pamphlet produced
by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program
Photo: Howard Ursuliak
ANTONIA HIRSCH
VOX POP
Granville and Robson Streets, Vancouver
October 20 - 26, 2008
screening every 3 minutes
24 hours per day
Curated by Barbara Cole
Vox Pop was a two-part video project incorporated within advertisements displayed on dual video billboards above the intersection of Granville and Robson Streets in downtown Vancouver.
Silent, and consisting of two, one-minute segments, Vox Pop drew attention to the spaces and behaviours through which we are encouraged to perform and celebrate shared values in a subtly provocative investigation of the individual within the crowd.
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VoxPop - Photo: Loe Russell
Other Sights gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council and the BC Arts Council
GROUP SEARCH - art in the library
Artists: Marina Roy, Laiwan, Dan Starling & Jillian Pritchard, Antonia Hirsch, Mark Soo, Kathy Slade
Curator: Lorna Brown
September 2006 through March 2008
Opening Event, Thursday, September 7, 6:00 p.m.
Library promenade
Group Search was an exciting new collaborative project of the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, and Other Sights for Artists’ Projects Association. Six temporary projects by Marina Roy, Laiwan, Dan Starling & Jillian Pritchard, Antonia Hirsch, Mark Soo, and Kathy Slade was presented between September 2006 and March 2008, in a program curated by Lorna Brown.
The projects included web-based art, installation, bookworks, interventions and performances and were located in the varied spaces, stacks, and systems of the library. Whether infiltrating the print, audio and special collections, linked to the electronic catalogues, or placed in the reading and listening areas, the artists addressed the contemplative and active spaces of the library, the containment and exchange of information found there, and the activities of searching and locating, borrowing, reflecting and returning, that library users undertake.
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Marble Infrastructure
CAMERON KERR
Marble Infrastructure Project
Curators: Barbara Cole, Patrik Andersson
June 28 through September 9, 2006
Closing Event, Thursday, September 7, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
Library promenade
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Visit Cameron Kerr's website for more images.