Kathy Slade

For over three decades, Kathy Slade has produced conceptually driven work that engages techniques of copying, repetition and reenactment, often coalescing in materially sumptuous objects. In her wide-ranging interdisciplinary practice, Slade inhabits sources from literature, art history, philosophy, and popular culture, weaving her references into absurd and frequently playful loops and voids.
 
At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Slade presents *As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*, a new body of work rooted in a research trip to Sils Maria, Switzerland, where Friedrich Nietzsche spent the majority of his summers during the decade he wrote his most enduring works. There, Slade retraced the philosopher’s steps along the shore of Lake Silvaplana, where upon encountering a large, pyramid-shaped rock he arrived at what he called “my truly abyssal thought”: eternal recurrence, “the unconditional and infinitely repeated circulation of all things.” In the exhibition, Slade reimagines Nietzsche’s encounter in two depictions: an enormous tapestry representing the rock to scale, and a series of graphite rubbings that maps the entirety of the rock’s surface over twenty monochromes.

#### Biography
Kathy Slade (b. 1966, Montreal) is an artist, writer, curator, editor, and publisher. She works across mediums and has produced textile works, prints, sculpture, film, video, performance, music projects, and publications. Slade’s solo exhibitions include *Wherever You Go*, Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver (2020); *This is a Chord. This is Another.*, Surrey Art Gallery (2018); and *Blue Monday*, 4COSE, London (2017). Her work has recently been included in group exhibitions at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Fluc, Vienna; and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver. In 2009, Slade was awarded the VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts. She currently teaches at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.


Reading the Rock - Kathy Slade and Lisa Robertson in Conversation

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A black and white photograph depicting a large triangle-shaped stone on the shore of a lake, with mountains faintly visible in the background.

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A very large tapestry by Kathy Slade depicting a large rock, visible in a gallery behind a title wall showing the exhibition's title and artist's name.

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A frontal photo of a very large tapestry by Kathy Slade depicting a large rock, suspended from the ceiling in front of a white wall. 

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A thin artist book by Kathy Slade lying closed on a white plinth, in front of a white wall with a small, black framed mirror slightly to the right of the plinth.

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A framed black mirror by Kathy Slade reflecting a tapestry depicting a large rock.

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A thin artist book by Kathy Slade lying closed on a white plinth, with the title Loneliest Loneliness visible on the cover.

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A thin artist book on a white plinth. A pair of hands hold a page open to show a black and white photograph of a large rock and its reflection in a lake.

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A thin artist book on a white plinth. A pair of hands hold a page open to show facing pages with abstract grey texture printed allover.

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Graphite rubbings on rectangular sheets of paper arranged in a row around a corner in a room with white walls.

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A frontal photo of five graphite rubbings on rectangular sheets of paper arranged in a row on a white wall.

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As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop

Christine Sun Kim

For more than ten years now, Christine Sun Kim has been engaged expansively with the ways sound is understood, experienced and valued. Upending the notion of the sonic as a solely auditory occurrence, the California-born, Berlin-based artist foregrounds sound’s visual, spatial and political properties across a variety of mediums including drawing, video, performance, and installation. Exploring and employing elements of American Sign Language (ASL) — the artist’s first language — alongside other visual communication systems such as musical notation, infographics and memes, the formal vocabulary of Kim’s work is a singular one, engaging with critical precision and deadpan humour the politics of language, listening and voice. 

Following her fall 2022 exhibition, *Oh Me Oh My*, two of Kim’s public-facing projects remain on view this season. On the facade of CAG, the artist presents *Echoes Sliding Down*, a work that builds on Kim’s engagement with the echo as a metaphor for Deaf/hearing communication, in which messages are bounced between parties and languages with inevitable reverberations, distortions and delays. At Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, Kim exhibits *Debt Debt Debt*, ten large-scale line drawings of hands, each referencing the ASL sign for “debt,” “owe” or “afford” to reflect on cycles of owing and borrowing, social, historical and financial alike.

*Christine Sun Kim: Debt Debt Debt* is presented in partnership with the Canada Line Public Art Program — InTransit BC.

### Biography
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, California) has exhibited and performed internationally, including at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Whitney Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam; the Berlin Biennale; the Shanghai Biennale; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many others. Kim was awarded an inaugural Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation as well as an MIT Media Lab Fellowship and a TED Senior Fellowship. She lives and works in Berlin.



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Facade of CAG with with two rows of windows visible in frame. Black and white drawings by Christine Sun Kim featuring the word "echoing" across the windows.

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Image of CAG behind two trees, with black and white drawings by Christine Sun Kim across the gallery's windows.

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Facade of CAG with four windows in a 4 by 4 grid visible in frame. Black and white drawings by Christine Sun Kim featuring the word "echo" across the windows.

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Echoes Sliding Down & Debt Debt Debt

Silas Ng

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In April, we welcome Silas Ng to speak on the work of Christine Sun Kim. 

### Accessibility
This event will be delivered in ASL. An ASL interpreter will be present. 

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Biography
Silas Ng is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist based on the unceded territories of Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He holds his Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from Emily Carr University. He is currently studying in the School of Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University for his Master of Fine Arts and Master of Arts in Contemporary Arts. His emerging research of deaf studies has focused on media and multisensory learning from the sense of sight and touch to reveal how audiovisual films shape his understanding of sound in immersive experience.

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Silas Ng on Christine Sun Kim

Saturday Session

Rebecca Bair

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We are pleased to announce our latest installment of CAG Reads, a book club where artists invite us to read alongside them. Each month an artist proposes text for our collective reading pleasure, culminating in a virtual hangout where the artist leads a wide-ranging discussion grounded in their chosen reading material. This month, CAG Reads will be hosted by Rebecca Bair. Rebecca has chosen to read the novel *Homegoing* by Yaa Gyasi.

### Getting the texts
*Homegoing* is available for purchase in the CAG bookstore, at [Massy Books](https://storestock.massybooks.com/item/fL1Fm1B4rfEUCZ_fBw3lbw) and can also be found at the [Vancouver Public Library](https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C4712992).

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvduuhrjouHNJ8HtRBLhXt2-AelGNed4UT).

Questions? Send us a note at [cagreads@cagvancouver.org](mailto:cagreads@cagvancouver.org).

### Accessibility
This event will be live captioned (CART). For more information please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org).

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### Biography
Rebecca Bair is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver — the traditional and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Her research aims to explore the possibilities of specific representation and of identity through abstraction and non-figuration. Bair uses multimedia approaches and Sun collaborations to illustrate her exploration of identity and intersectionality, through the lens of her own experience as a Black Woman on Turtle Island. Her artistic, professional and educational goals revolve around common themes of celebrating Black plurality, as well as enabling interpersonal and intercultural care, and her work acts as a vehicle through which the complexities of history and identity can be uncovered, redefined and expressed.

A portrait of Rebecca Bair. She is wearing earrings, a black long-sleeve shirt and is smiling.

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Rebecca Bair presents Yaa Gyasi

CAG Reads

Kit Liu

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Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. In April, we invite you to join us for an art-making workshop led by artist Kit Liu. 

Inspired by CAG’s current exhibition *Kathy Slade: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*, Kit will guide participants in making a collagraph print, a printmaking technique made from a collage of various materials glued onto a plate. Through a playful exploration of shapes, lines and textures on paper, this workshop will investigate both practices of repetition and imitation.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-impressions-on-paper-with-kit-liu-tickets-601723700787).

### Biography
Kit Liu is a Canadian visual artist with an interest in the nature of being mortal. Working with graphite, paint, copper etching and relief printmaking, Kit pulls impressions to reconcile the duality of life and death, and to explore the magnitude of human care and grief. Recent print media exhibitions include *SAVE IT IN A PILE* (2021), *MATRIX* (2021), and *You are small and you are beautiful.* (2022) at the Michael O'Brian Exhibition Commons at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

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Impressions on Paper with Kit Liu

Open Studio

Join CAG’s Curator Godfre Leung for a walkthrough of the current exhibitions.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

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with Godfre Leung

Curatorial Tour

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Contemporary Art Practices is a full scholarship three-week visual art intensive designed for artists ages 15–19 who are interested in immersing themselves in the world of contemporary art to advance their artistic skills and expand their creative thinking.

The intensive is a stimulating experience for teen artists committed to experimentation and dedicated to pushing the boundaries of their own art practice. In a dedicated studio environment, students will work with professional Vancouver artists, curators, and educators to explore a range of contemporary art practices and have access to specialized studios and facilities at Arts Umbrella’s Granville Island location as well as unique access to exhibitions and learning opportunities at the Contemporary Art Gallery.

Through a series of artist-led workshops, one-to-one mentorships, and self-directed projects students will be pushed to expand their creative and critical practice. They will engage in critiques with professional curators, group discussions on chosen themes and readings, and learn to develop their ideas to work with new materials and methods.

The program culminates with an exhibition of student work.

For more information and to apply, please click [here](https://www.artsumbrella.com/programs/art/scholarship-programs/visual-art-summer-intensive/). 

### Program dates
August 7 → 25, 2023 
Monday to Friday, 1 PM → 4 PM

### Application deadline
May 31 at 11:59 PM

### Acknowledgements
Generously supported by Tom Ferries and Lisa Pankratz and The Parachute Fund

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