The Making of
New Territories and Communities
October 07- December 18, 2010
Audain Gallery
149 West Hastings Street,
Vancouver BC V6B 1H4
[email protected]
http://www.audaingallery.ca
In working with communities to build projects to improve everyday life, and then transferring these projects into an art context, whether by reconstructing buildings or by exhibiting particular utensils or existing tools, Potrĉ engages artistically with “…practices [that] work off of, and in response to one another, as much as in reaction to the changes imposed and engendered by “global economic structuring” and its local manifestations.”2 Covering a range of places and scales, the exhibition The Making of New Territories and Communities draws upon these global phenomena of urbanization, as well as the restructured relationship to the rural. The exhibition—which draws on work done in the Amazon region of Brazil and Tirana in Albania, as well as Detroit, Amsterdam, and Prishtina—resonates with the specific context and situation in Vancouver and Canada where conceptions of territory and citizenship are highly contested.
Marjetica Potrč is the first artist to be hosted by the Audain Visual Artists in Residence Program and will begin her residency in October 2010. The Audain Artist-in-Residence will work closely with visual-art students within the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU Woodward’s and the community in Vancouver.
Marjetica Potrč’s work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil (1996 and 2006) and the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, and 2009); and she has had solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001); the Max Protetch Gallery in New York (2002, 2005, 2008 and 2010); the Nordenhake Gallery in Berlin/Stockholm (2003, 2007 and 2010). Potrč has taught at numerous institutions in Europe and North America, including MIT (2005). In 2000 she received the prestigious Hugo Boss prize, and was awarded a fellowship at the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School in New York (2007).
1. Cindi Katz, Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004): 240
2. Katz, 241
Workshops
With Marjetica Potrč
October 08:
From the Streets
Urban textures and histories. A series of guided walks through Vancouver.
October 15:
New Territorialization; An interdisciplinary discussion.
October 21:
Methods and Practices; A workshop on artistic fieldwork and research as contemporary practice.
149 West Hastings Street,
Vancouver BC V6B 1H4
[email protected]
http://www.audaingallery.ca
About the Audain Gallery
Named in honour of arts supporter Michael Audain, the Audain Gallery serves as a vital aspect of the Visual Arts program at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. The Audain Gallery’s mission is to advance the aesthetic and discursive production and presentation of contemporary visual art in Vancouver and internationally through a responsive program of exhibitions in a flexible project space in support of an engaged pedagogy of art within the university and in the public sphere. Exhibitions produced through the Audain Visual Artists in Residence Program and exhibitions by the BFA and MFA students at the School for the Contemporary Arts are central to the Audain Gallery’s programming. The Audain Gallery encourages conceptual and experimental projects that explore the dialogue between the social and the cultural in contemporary artistic practices. The Audain Gallery is curated by Sabine Bitter.
