[van-announce] desmedia and a dtes exhibition

[JSalloum at aol.com]

Dear all, 

Just to let you know that desmedia is particpating in this exhibition below 
that should prove to be a interesting discursive environment for issues we have 
been trying to address in our workshops. We will be videotaping every Sunday 
of the exhibition, so if you have any stories, poems, writings etc you want to 
share please come down, you'll receive a copy for your own use and if you'd 
like to, add to our evergrowing dtes video archives. Hope to see you at the 
opening and /or the forum.

best wishes, 
JS/
per desmedia

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"Picturing the Downtown Eastside"
Curated by Charo Neville

Opening Reception: Friday, 29 April, 8 - 10 pm
Exhibition continues until 29 May 2005

Public Forum: Saturday, 7 May, 12 - 3 pm
desmedia videotapings: Every Sunday in May, 2 - 5 pm

What is art in the Downtown Eastside? How do you picture this part of our 
city? Six years after the Or Gallery presented its last exhibition in its 
Downtown Eastside location, 112 West Hastings will temporarily be re-opening its 
doors. During the month of May, the exhibition Picturing the Downtown Eastside 
will re-activate this historical building, once a hub for Vancouver's art scene, 
which included artist run initiatives such as the Perel Gallery, Artspeak, the 
Kootenay School of Writing, the Or Gallery and artist studios. In the shadow 
of the Woodward's building, this exhibition presents a unique view into the 
Downtown Eastside through a diverse combination of artists and projects.

The exhibition poses questions about the complexities of representing 
Vancouver's most socially and economically challenged, yet also vibrant, 
neighbourhood. Its unlikely mixture of works and artistic strategies provide a platform 
for thinking about the Downtown Eastside and for looking at the roles that 
artists serve within it. The forum held during the exhibition will extend this 
dialogue to a larger participating public in Vancouver.

Picturing the Downtown Eastside displays photographic and video works, and 
alternative community-based projects. The exhibition presents work by Rita 
Beiks, Rebecca Belmore, Clint Burnham, Margot Leigh Butler, Stan Douglas, Arni 
Haraldsson, Sharon Kravitz, and Susan Stewart, all of whom have addressed the 
Downtown Eastside in their past work and community projects. The show also 
features work by resident Downtown Eastside painter, Paul St. Germain and graffiti 
artist Hermes. In addition, the desmedia collective are re-initiating their 
Downtown Eastside video archive project with a camera set up once a week in the 
gallery for people in the community to tell their stories, and share their poems 
and songs.

This exhibition is curated by Master of Arts candidate, Charo Neville, with 
support from the Vancouver Foundation, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 
the Alvin Balkind Fund for Curatorial Initiatives and the Art History, Visual 
Art and Art Theory Department, UBC.


For more information contact Charo Neville at 778.881.2427 
cneville at interchange.ubc.ca
Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 12-5pm
112 West Hastings Street (between Abbott and Cambie)
www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca/satellite 604.822.275
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