[van-announce] IntraNation Conference - Vancouver

[terra poirier]

>IntraNation:  race, politics, and canadian art
>November 21 to 24, 2002
>Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (ECIAD),  Granville Island
>Vancouver, BC
>www.intranation.net
>
>This gathering of artists from across Canada will perform the dual 
>purpose of showcasing/highlighting the artists' work and 
>contextualizing contemporary arts practices in Canada in terms of 
>race and politics.  The emphasis in this gathering will be on an 
>exchange of ideas through formal presentations, informal 
>discussions, and various book launches, performances, and 
>screenings.  A senior ECIAD art history class--Race and Identity 
>Movements in Canadian Art--will work on projects leading up to and 
>developing from the conference.
>
>ALL EVENTS AND SESSIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
>All events are at the Lecture Hall (Room 328), South Building, Emily 
>Carr Institute of Art + Design (Granville Island), unless otherwise 
>indicated.
>
>Thurs, Nov 21
>
>7:30 pm:  Opening welcome by Chief Campbell, Squamish, Room 260
>8:00 pm:  Performance by Chris Creighton-Kelly, Room 260
>***Note: For admission to the performance, please bring a 35 mm 
>slide and a loonie.
>9:30 pm:  President's reception in ECIAD cafeteria
>
>Friday, Nov 22
>
>10:00 am:   Biospheric Questions and Bodily Poetics.
>Shirley Bear, Laiwan, Scott McFarlane
>
>1:00 pm:   Screens:  Subjects, Sites, Practices.
>Fred Wah and Karin Lee, Richard Fung, Sylvia Hamilton
>
>3:30 pm:   Performative Impulses and Critical Perspectives.
>Kirsten Forkert, Paul Wong, Rebecca Belmore
>
>7:00 pm:  Book launch for Richard Fung's and Monika Kin Gagnon's new 
>book, 13 Conversations About Art and Cultural Race Politics, 
>published by Centre d'Information Artexte information centre. 
>Charles H. Scott Gallery.
>
>8:00 pm:   Readings:  Larissa Lai, and Launch of  Sharron 
>Proulx-Turner's what the auntys say (published by McGilligan Books). 
>Screenings:  Richard Fung -- Sea in the Blood,  Jayce Salloum  -- 
>untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends and untitled part 1: 
>everything and nothing.
>
>Saturday, Nov 23
>
>10:00 am:    Imagined Geographies.
>Marwan Hassan, Henry Tsang, Jin-me Yoon
>
>1:00 pm:  Digging out/digging in: connective agency and political dissent.
>tjsnow, Jayce Salloum, Jim Wong-Chu
>
>3:30 pm:   Politics and Processes of Learning.
>Adrian Stimson, Cindy Mochizuki, Loretta Todd, Kira Wu
>
>7:30 pm:  Readings/screenings:  Performance by Hiromi Goto, Baco 
>Ohama, Roy Miki; Karin Lee -- premiere of Sunflower Children, Sylvia 
>Hamilton -- premiere of  Portia White:  Think On Me
>
>Sunday, Nov 24
>
>11:00 am:   Potential Formations, Possible Momentums.
>Roy Miki, Larissa Lai, Chris Creighton-Kelly
>
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>
>Biographies of Participants
>
>Shirley Bear was born on the Negootkook First Nation Community.  She 
>is a multimedia artist whose work has been widely exhibited across 
>North America.  Her many awards include the Excellence in the Arts 
>Award 2002 from The New Brunswick Arts Board.
>
>Rebecca Belmore's multi-disciplinary practice includes performances, 
>installations, and objects. Two common strands throughout much of 
>her work are her belief in the critical importance of the political 
>struggle over aboriginal land, and her inclusion of other people's 
>voices, perspectives, and experiences in her work.
>
>Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist and writer 
>whose work has been shown across Canada, in India, Europe and the 
>U.S. He was born in the U.K. of South Asian-British heritage and is 
>currently based on Vancouver Island. He appreciates his audiences a 
>lot.
>
>Kirsten Forkert is an artist working in installation, performance 
>and text. She has presented her work across Canada. Upcoming 
>projects include a series of spontaneous performances in public 
>spaces. She currently teaches at ECIAD.
>
>Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist and writer whose tapes 
>have been widely screened and collected internationally, and whose 
>essays have been published in many journals and anthologies.  He is 
>the co-author (with Monika Kin Gagnon) of 13 Conversations about Art 
>and Cultural Race Politics. Among other awards, he received the 2000 
>Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art.  He 
>coordinates the Centre for Media and Culture at OISE/UT.
>
>Hiromi Goto's first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, received the 
>Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book in the Canada and 
>Caribbean Region and was co-winner of the Canada Japan Book Award. 
>She is also the author of The Kappa Child and The Water of 
>Possibility.  She is a mother and has recently moved from Calgary to 
>Burnaby.
>
>Sylvia Hamilton is a Nova Scotian filmmaker and writer.  Her first 
>film, Black Mother Black Daughter, has been seen in over forty film 
>festivals throughout North America and Europe. Speak It! From the 
>Heart of Black Nova Scotia received both the 1994 Maeda Prize 
>awarded by the NHK-Japan Broadcasting Corporation, and a 1994-Gemini 
>Award. Her most recent film is Portia White: Think On Me.
>
>Marwan Hassan is a novelist, a critic, and an intellectual. 
>Cormorant Books has published his two novels, The Confusion of 
>Stones: Two Novellas (1989) and The Memory Garden of Miguel Carranza.
>
>Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, Salt Fish Girl and When Fox 
>Is a Thousand.  She was born in La Jolla, California, grew up in 
>Newfoundland, and lived for many years in Vancouver.  She is 
>currently working on a PhD at the University of Calgary.
>
>Laiwan was founder of the Or Gallery in 1983, and is a writer and 
>interdisciplinary artist who has been researching the 
>epistemological shift found in digital technologies and the 
>disappearance of older cultures.
>
>Filmmaker Karin Lee is a fourth-generation Canadian whose stories 
>are about the effects of global displacement and the Chinese 
>diaspora in North America.  Her films include My Sweet Peony, Songs 
>of the Phoenix, Canadian Steel Chinese Grit, and her Gemini Award 
>winning documentary Made in China - the Story of Adopted Chinese 
>Children in Canada (2000).  Currently, Ms. Lee is completing 
>Sunflower Children and writing two feature-length film scripts, 
>Diamond Grill, based on the book by Fred Wah, and Mah Bing Kee, a 
>courtroom drama based on the life of her great-grandfather.
>
>Scott Toguri McFarlane is a Montreal-based writer, editor, and 
>manager of the Pomelo Project, a production house for the arts 
>dedicated to cultural politics. He is currently working on a book 
>manuscript entitled On and On: The Exciting Promises and Phenomenal 
>Boredom of Biotechnology.
>
>Roy Miki is a poet, critic, teacher, and editor.  His books include 
>Broken Entries:  Race  Subjectivity  Writing, Random Access File, 
>Saving Face: Poems Selected 1976-1988, and Justice in Our Time:  The 
>Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement (with Cassandra Kobayashi). 
>His recent book of poems, Surrender, has been nominated for the 
>Governor General's Award.
>
>Cindy Mochizuki was born and raised in Vancouver, B.C. She is a 
>visual artist working with ideas of language, history, the body and 
>social spaces within the mediums of video, installation, and 
>performance. She is presently working on a piece that involves ideas 
>of kanashibari and haunted language.
>
>Baco Ohama still considers herself a prairie farm kid although she 
>now lives on the west coast. Her grounding comes not only from the 
>prairies and her family but also from the years she lived in Quebec 
>
 from pondering over the relationships between language and 
>location, history and memory, partial tellings and tastes that 
>linger. She is a visual artist, writer, and educator who works on 
>installations, page and bookworks, collaborations and community 
>based projects often simultaneously. One who seems indelibly linked 
>to water and the colour red.
>
>Sharron Proulx-Turner is a Métis writer who holds a Masters in 
>English, Feminist Bio-theory, from the University of Calgary. She 
>has taught writing and literature at Old Sun College and Mount Royal 
>College in Alberta.  Her previously published memoir of ritual 
>abuse, written under a pseudonym, was short-listed for the Edna 
>Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. what the auntys say is her 
>first book of poetry, and the culmination of years of rumination on 
>her roots and on the power of language.
>
>Jayce Salloum has been working in installation, photography, mixed 
>and new media and video since 1975, as well as curating exhibitions, 
>conducting workshops and coordinating cultural events. After 22 
>years living and working in San Francisco, Banff, Toronto, San 
>Diego, Beirut, and New York, he now lives/works out of Vancouver.
>
>tjsnow is a First Nations poet, intellectual and 
>installation/performance artist. He has curated exhibitions with the 
>Royal Ontario Museum, conducted workshops on cultural awareness, 
>worked as a professor and coordinated community cultural events. A 
>former federal government communications manager, he is completing a 
>historical review governance tactics and political insurgency in 
>First Nations - Canadian relations. He lives/works out of Calgary.
>
>Adrian Stimson is now a painting major at the Alberta College of Art 
>and Design, after serving eight years as Tribal Councilor for the 
>Siksika Nation.  He has served as President for the Ottawa-based 
>First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centers, and is on 
>the board of the Alberta Human Rights, Citizenship, and 
>Multiculturalism Education Fund Advisory Committee, AIDS Calgary, 
>and the Calgary Aboriginal Arts Awareness Society.  He is currently 
>the featured artist in the Nitsitapiisinni: Our Way of Life exhibit 
>at the Glenbow Museum as well as part of a group show called 5 
>degrees at the Art Gallery of Calgary.
>
>Loretta Todd, a Cree/Metis active in developing Aboriginal media 
>through her company Eagle Eye Films, is on a mission to de-colonize 
>and reclaim the screen for Native stories. Her films include 
>Forgotten Warriors, Hands of History, The Learning Path and Today is 
>a Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George.  She has received the 
>Mountain Award at the Taos Talking Pictures Festival, two Best 
>Documentary Awards at the American Indian Film Festival in San 
>Francisco, and a Rockefeller Fellowship to New York University, 
>among her many honours.  She was recently in Paris developing her 
>feature film, WarSong.
>
>Henry Tsang is an artist whose installations incorporate 
>photography, video, language and sculptural elements.  He has 
>participated in On Location: Public Art for the New Millenium at the 
>Vancouver Art Gallery, and The Mount Pleasant Golf and Country Club, 
>organized by the public art collective, Collective Echoes.  He has 
>curated projects such as SELF NOT WHOLE: Cultural Identity and 
>Chinese-Canadian Artists in Vancouver, RACY SEXY, and CITY AT THE 
>END OF TIME:  Hong Kong 1997.  In 1997, he completed a permanent 
>public artwork, "Welcome to the Land of Light," in downtown 
>Vancouver.
>
>Fred Wah is a Governor General's Award recipient (poetry) and author 
>of many published works including the award-winning biofiction 
>Diamond Grill.  Involved in publishing and teaching internationally 
>in poetry and poetics since the early 1960's, he is currently 
>professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of 
>Calgary.
>
>Paul Wong is a founding director of Video In Studio and On Edge 
>Productions, and an interdisciplinary and multimedia artist well 
>known for his video projects dealing with issues of race, sexuality, 
>and identity.
>
>Jim Wong-Chu has worked as a comunity organizer, historian, and 
>radio broadcaster. He is a founding member of the Asian Canadian 
>Writers'  Workshop, as well as being a full-time letter carrier for 
>Canada Post. His book of poetry Chinatown Ghosts was published in 
>1986, and he has coedited the anthologies, Many-Mouthed Birds and 
>Swallowing Clouds.
>
>Kira Wu is a visual artist and videographer who works in both visual 
>arts, and film and video communities in Vancouver.  Wu teaches at 
>Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC.
>
>Jin-me Yoon is a video and photo-based artist whose work critically 
>and ironically questions the sytems of representation which reflect, 
>conflict with and affect identity.  She is a professor at Simon 
>Fraser University.
>
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>IntraNation acknowledges the generous support of the Emily Carr 
>Institute of ART + DESIGN, the Canada Council Literary Readings 
>Program, Canadian Heritage, and the Social Sciences and Humanities 
>Research Council (Initiatives in the New Economy).
>
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When the rich declare war, it is the poor who die.  - Jean-Paul Sartre