Strathcona Drawing Party
The Contemporary Art Gallery has partnered with Cineworks, Hua Foundation and Access Gallery to bring you…
‘Strathcona Drawing Party’ is free collaborative community art project at several locations on Saturday June 20 from 11-5:30pm. Come explore unique cultural spaces in the Chinatown/Strathcona. Participants of all age are welcome to create and experiment at three drawing events throughout the day.
Workshops and venues include:
'Drawing on Film / Cameraless Moviemaking' 11am – 1pm Cineworks – Annex 235 Alexander Street, Vancouver Instructor: Nisha Platzer
This drop-in workshop will introduce participants to the magical possibilities of direct animation! Make your own hand drawn animations on 16mm film by drawing, painting and scratching right on the film itself. Experiment with drawing on clear film, scratching on black film or marking film that already has images on it. See your own patterns of shape and colour come to life with the magic of the movie projector!
Nisha Platzer is an artist and filmmaker working in multiple formats including stop-motion, 16mm, 8mm and handmade found footage. Some of her past projects include a series of film-poems made on HD, 8mm, and found footage, narrative shorts, and music videos for artists in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society (est.1980) is an artist-run production and exhibition centre that supports independent filmmakers and media artists. We engage our membership and the broader community through initiatives and services that foster dialogue and experimentation with the moving image and expansive approaches to cinema. www.cineworks.ca
'Mongrel Vegetables' 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Hua Foundation / Mah Society Benevolent Society 418 East Hastings, Vancouver Instructor: Howie Tsui
Artist Howie Tsui will lead a tracing workshop creating hybrid monstrous plants. Hua refers to three phrases in Mandarin: ‘change’ 變化 [M: bian hua C: been faa], ‘people of ethnic Chinese descent’ 華人 [M: hua ren C: waa yun], and ‘culture’ 文化 [M: wen hua C: man faa].
'Mongrel Vegetables': As a follow-up to the Hua Foundation’s Choi Project, which enhanced our familiarity to Chinese produce, artist Howie Tsui will lead a workshop that asks participants to hybridize elements of these vegetables into a portrait. This workshop will put a more Sino-centric spin on Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s portraits of heads comprised of vegetables and fruits. Perhaps in our current context, these portraits will reflect how our bodies are sustained through a melange of crossbred and modified ingredients; or in a more benign way, these constructions just illustrate a combination of ingredients in a satisfying stir-fry.
Hua Foundation develops solutions and build movements for the Hua community that strengthen our connections with culture, heritage and environmental sustainability. http://www.huafoundation.org/
Vancouver-based artist Howie Tsui (Tsui Ho Yan / 徐浩恩) was born in Hong Kong and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and Thunder Bay. He holds a BFA (2002) in painting from the University of Waterloo and received the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize (2005) from the Canada Council for most outstanding young artist. His work is in the public collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Canada Council Art Bank, City of Ottawa, Ottawa Art Gallery and Centre d'exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul. Solo exhibitions include Gallery 101, Carleton University Art Gallery, AceArtInc (Winnipeg), Montréal arts interculturels, Centre A (Vancouver), Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba.
'The Chamber, Ian Johnston' 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Access Gallery 222 East Georgia Street, Vancouver Instructor: Alex M.F. Quicho
Join a time-based drawing workshop led by Alex M.F. Quicho and explore artist Ian Johnston’s installation ‘The Chamber’. The Chamber is an enormous inflating and deflating installation that shrouds and reveals an enormous mass of discarded household items diverted from what the artist terms “the waste stream.” Mesmerizing and sobering, The Chamber suggests to viewers, as Johnston states, “the paradoxical relationship between limited resources and seemingly unlimited appetite.”
Alex M.F. Quicho (b. 1990, Boston, USA) is an artist and writer from Manila, Philippines. Her works in graphite approach decolonization, dystopia, paranoia, and female agency, among other things. She is the creative director and founder of Highway, a publication for experimental culture.
An artist-run centre established in 1991 and situated in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown, Access Gallery is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and presenting the work of emergent artists, curators and cultural practitioners, as well as those entering a new experimental phase of their practice. We enable critical conversations and risk taking through new configurations of audience, artists and community.
http://accessgallery.ca/current/ian-johnston-the-chamber-2/
We gratefully acknowledge support of Vancouver Foundation Neighborhood Small Grants.