Chris Eamon
Curator’s Talk

Monday, February 1, 2010 – 4 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Room 204
Tickets: Free

Chris Eamon is a New York-based independent curator and writer. Previously, he was curator of the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection, San Francisco. Recent exhibitions include A Rictus Grin (2008), Broadway 1602, New York; and Accidental Modernism (2008), Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York. Eamon’s most recent publication project, Art of Projection (2009), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, investigates the historical and contemporary use of projected images in art from the screen to the exhibition space and back again.

Robert Houle
Artist’s Talk

Indigenous Abstraction

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 – 4 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Room 204
Tickets: Free

Robert Houle is a contemporary artist who has played a significant role in the recovery of Aboriginal heritage. He has participated in several important international exhibitions and was the first curator of contemporary Indian art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Kristina Lee Podesva
Artist’s Talk

Between the Question Mark and the Comma:
A Speculative Grammar for Criticism and Art

Monday, February 8, 2010 – 4:30 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Room 204
Tickets: Free

Kristina Lee Podesva takes a speculative look at criticism and contemporary art by examining the theoretical possibilities and implications of the question mark and the comma. By discussing her own work as an artist and editor of Fillip, Podesva traverses the space of these forms of punctuation, and asks us to consider a number of questions.

Nicolaus Schafhausen Curator’s Talk

Putting the institution under a leitmotif:
Morality at Witte de With

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 – 6 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Room 204
Tickets: Free

Director of Witte de With, The Netherlands, Nicolaus Schafhausen will discuss the thematic project Morality. In the most general sense, morality is a category of aide-memoires for living a righteous life; in its most inflexible sense, it engages the world through categorical imperatives, produces intolerance towards skepticism, and insists on transcendental ideas even when these have become unnecessary. The aim of the Morality project is to present a wide range of attitudes which tend to problematize a total conception of morality.

Visual Arts
Open Studios

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 – 3-6 p.m.
Glyde Hall and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Studios
Tickets: Free

Tour the studios of artists participating in the Visual Arts Thematic Residencies Towards Language, led by Greg Staats, and Master Class: The Object of Art and the Art as Object with Ken Lum.