LandMarks, Installation Shot of ‘Long View, Jin-Me Yoon, 2017.’ Photo: Stephen Morgan, 2017
LandMarks, Installation Shot of ‘Bear Garden, Emily Marston, 2017.’ Photo: Stephen Morgan, 2017.
LandMarks, Installation Shot of ‘Let Me In, Jessica Chu, Michelle Gougani, and Nico Yu, 2017.’ Photo: Stephen Morgan, 2017.
LandMarks, Detail Shot of ‘Colonial Sites, Laboratory Landscapes Class, 2017.’ Photo: Stephen Morgan, 2017.
LandMarks, Installation Shot of ‘This Is Where It Started, Oscar Alfonso and Carolina Crawczyk, 2017.’ Photo: Oscar Alfonso, 2017.
Curation:
Curation: Siting, Project adaptation, Exhibition Installation, and Exhibition opening.
Context:
LandMarks LandMarks installation showcases works from faculty and students at SFU’s School of Contemporary Arts, in collaboration with LandMarks2017/Repères2017. These works actively engage audiences to critically examine Canada at 150 while offering a legacy of diverse perspectives for the future. Internationally celebrated contemporary artist, SFU School of Contemporary Arts faculty, and Grange Prize nominee Jin-me Yoon’s latest work Long View is brimming with the questions so many of us share — questions of migration, belonging and our place within nature. Long View the postcard version unfolds at at the site of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, a place to ponder past, present and future relations between Canada, Indigenous peoples and elsewhere across the Pacific. The video version of Long View is available for viewing on the LandMarks2017 website. In the Laboratory Landscape series, SFU’s visual art students address Stanley Park’s Indigenous and colonial histories and present, as well as its social function as an urban park and its ecological context. Through site-specific installations and performative events, the works explore contemporary environmental issues, representations of nature, and spatial concepts, including notions of public and social space. Colonial Site, a collaboration between graduate and undergraduate students overseen by faculty member Sabine Bitter, takes the shape of a topographical site map of Vancouver. Featuring counter-archives of vernacular images and micro-histories, this work seeks to uncover the traces- tangible and intangible- of colonialism in our everyday lives.
Curated by Sabine Bitter, LandMarks consists of 7 projects located on the 1000, and 2000 levels of the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts and features the work of: Oscar Alfonso, Krystle Coughlin, Jessica Chu, Carolina Crawczyk, Michelle Gougani, Carli Howden, Andi Icaza-Largaespada, Emily Marston, Rachelle Tjahyana, Sophie Van den Biggelaar, Jin-Me Yoon, and Nico Yu.
Links:
Facebook event for the Opening Reception