Pixy Liao's Experimental Relationship at Centre A — ArtAsiaPacific
Pixy Liao’s Experimental Relationship at Centre A — ArtAsiaPacific
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— by Ophelia Lai: Pixy Liao’s “Experimental Relationship (for your eyes only, or maybe mine, too)” is near-perfectly suited, by sheer coincidence, to the exigencies of quarantine. Centered on Liao’s ongoing photographic and performative series featuring herself and her boyfriend, Moro…
In Solar: A Meltdown, artist Ho Rui An analyzes the tropes of sweltering tropical heat and sweat to investigate the relationship between the Empire and the colonial subject. Referencing The King and I, and other visual depictions that separate the sweat of the subject to the dry pallor of the colonial white female as symbol of a global domestic, Ho delves into contemporary globalization.
During the run of this exhibition in September 2018, Ho will visit Vancouver and present a performance lecture titled Tropicopolitan Objects.
Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. He writes, talks and thinks around images, with an interest in investigating their emergence, transmission and disappearance within contexts of globalism and governance. He has presented projects internationally, including Jakarta Biennale (2017), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014), Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila (2017), Para Site, Hong Kong (2015). He is the Singapore desk editor for ArtAsiaPacific and has contributed to numerous publications. He lives and works in Singapore.
As Lead Donor, you will be acknowledged on the exhibition wall text, on our website, and other related printed matter, including an exhibition catalogue. You will also be invited for an exclusive solo preview of the exhibition before it opens to the public, and two reserved seats at Tropicopolitan Objects.
For the past 5 years, Centre A has been giving emerging artists and curators a head start to their careers through our Annual Curatorial Skills Development Mentorship Program and Annual Recent Graduates Exhibition. 2018’s Curatorial Skills Development Intern and curator of the 5th Annual Recent Graduates Exhibition is upcoming Simon Fraser University grad, Joni Cheung. Over the past few months, Joni has been part of the Centre A team, helping us polish our ad-hoc exhibition spaces and preparing for the 2018 artistic programming to come. This summer, she will curate and mount Centre A’s first exhibition in our new Keefer Street space, with emerging artists and recent grads, with assistance and mentorship from the Centre A team and Executive Director/Curator Tyler Russell.
This exhibition’s Circle of Support will be recognized on Centre A’s website and the exhibition printed matter.
Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver’s Financial District, Heritage Asian Eatery is a casual, counter-service restaurant with an original take on classic Asian comfort foods, created with locally sourced ingredients and modern techniques.
Heritage Asian Eatery invites you and your guests to their 1600 sq. ft. space to host your very own private event (value: $300).
Pictured menu items: Dan Dan Duck Udon, Steamed Dumplings, Salmon Salad, Osso Buco Rice Bowl
This September, Centre A will hold our inaugural Asian-Canadian Survey Exhibition, an initiative to carve out space for Asian-Diasporic perspectives existing within the colonial nation state of Canada. Our intent with this exhibition series is to make space for expressions of the experiences of diaspora that occur under the banner of Canada, and thus probe and question the boundaries and delineations of a national identity on colonized land. A bi-annual exhibition, this is to become an important regular feature in our programming, to help cultivate our attentiveness to the social, geographic, and cultural context we are physically situated within.
As Lead Donor, your contribution will be recognized on Centre A’s website and the exhibition printed matter, including a published catalogue.
Janice Wu is a visual artist and illustrator based in Vancouver, BC. Wu graduated from Emily Carr University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2013. Her work addresses material culture, the everyday, and perceptions around symbolic and sentimental value. Wu has had several exhibitions in galleries throughout Canada, including Creative Practices Institute in Edmonton, the Burnaby Art Gallery, and at the Back Gallery Project in Vancouver. Some her illustration clients include The New York Times, The Walrus, Urban Outfitters, Lancôme, Condé Nast Traveler, Saje Natural Wellness and the Canada Post.
Postcard (Take the plants) is part of Wu’s series Wishes, an intimate examination in to our collective associations with memory and travel while revealing the poignant nuances that surface from our efforts to capture, document, and read experiences. Featuring an extensive collection of rendered found, dated, forgotten postcards, Wu exhibited these drawings in her solo exhibition Wishes at the Back Gallery Project in 2014.
Starting price: $4,000 per year, for a three-year commitment period
After renovations, our forthcoming video gallery will become a space to host video, performance, and intermedia works. By dedicating a space for such work, Centre A is committing to exhibiting media and experimental works, works that push the boundaries of new materialities and technological developments and the social and viewership relations they produce or reflect. It will also serve as a space for a new media residency we are currently developing for 2019.
This will be an individual or commemorative naming opportunity, therefore we will not be accepting corporate naming.
