This town is in the midst of international happenings: the World Urban Forum gathered city planners, visionaries, performers, partiers... That festival was immediately followed by the World Peace Forum which is on now and will continue into next week. I love seeing the city full of visitors. Brenna Maag & I wandered around the town to see some of the art happenings: on campus we stumbled on an Arabic prayer vigil and native drummers, downtown we took in the Yoko Ono show and Lenore Herb's activist work at the Helen Pitt Gallery (see: http://www3.telus.net/spirituslocii/ ). Tomorrow I might take in a lecture on protest art. Welcome to all of the guests!
The mail art exhibit, CULTURE: MAIL - PEACE - ART, is now installed and open for viewing in the 'Peace Cafe' on the main floor of the Gage Buildings at UBC. Delegates have been taking time to take close looks at the artworks and to make a few postcards of their own.
On Tuesday evening (7pm), local participants will be at the exhibit to meet and pick up copies of their documentation packages. Everyone is invited to come out and see the show!
I have posted an album of photos of the exhibit on this site (left side bar).
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SPANISH GREENS & World Peace Forum
SPANISH GREENS -
Announcing - Spanish Greens is a limited edition poetry chapbook by Miranda Pearson and published by Light Factory Publications. It is an appealing composite of alluring poetry and exotic hand-made papers. You have a chance to get your hands on one of only 86 copies at the launch of Miranda's newest book, The Aviary (published by Oolichan Books): Sunday, June 18 at 7 pm, Railspur Alley Cafe and Bistro on Granville Island.
WORLD PEACE FORUM -
The mail is in... 100 contributors from 20 countries! (How balanced and non-confrontational is that?)
I will be installing the exhibit with Brenna Maag in the Isobel MacInnis Lounge in the Gage Building at UBC in Vancouver. Check back here for the hours of the exhibition, and a gathering with artists and organizers.
Photo Albums
In the background - LINKS
- Archive City
- Brenna Maag - Artist
- East Side Culture Crawl
- Garden Gnomad R&D
- Kriss Boggild's art site
- MCC | Comforters
This is the NGO that distributes most of the blankets made by Comforter Art-Action. This website also describes the blanket requirements. Using these specifications, you could make some of your own. - MOPARRC
Sharon Kallis, Lois Klassen, and Lori Weidenhammer are artists in residence at Means of Production Community Garden. This blog follows their work in Vancouver's only community garden for artists. - Potluck Canuck
Lori Weidenhammer's blog: ecology; performance art; slow food... - The Living Blanket / La Couverture Vivante
The official website of Doris Buttignol's on-going women's textile/networking project. You can participate by making a 25x25cm textile square and mailing it in. - Wynne Palmer's blog
Art Projects
- Thirteen Sightings; a Silent Movie
Thirteen Sightings began as a set of e-mail poems, documenting the process of winter becoming summer in Manitoba (1999). The thirteen poems have been combined with S8 movie clips from around the same time. This project was the final requirement for the completion of a 'Post-Graduate Certificate in Digital Arts & Interactive Media' from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. - COMFORTER Art-Action
Check here to view images and ideas generated by COMFORTER. - I'm Thinking Thneed
- 52 Songs of Comfort and Remembrance
This is a link to the coverage that CBC Radio 3 did of the installation I had in Artropolis, 2003 in Vancouver. Click on the brown and orange-coloured rectangle on the bottom of the title page.
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