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

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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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Call for applications

Visual Art Summer Intensive

Lorna Brown

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

Dionne Lee

Sesemiya

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Join us for a public conversation between the summer 2023 exhibiting artists, moderated by Lorna Brown.

### RSVP
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### 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.

### Biographies
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill is an artist and writer. Her practice explores the history of found materials to enquire into concepts of land, property, and economy. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the 59th Venice Biennale; Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; the Vancouver Art Gallery; the College Art Galleries at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; and Gallery TPW, Toronto. She is a member of BUSH gallery, an Indigenous artist collective that seeks to challenge Eurocentric art models, and to centre the land and Indigenous epistemologies. Hill is Cree and English, with maternal roots in the Michel Band and Papaschase. She lives on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm and səlilwətaɬ Nations.

Sesemiya (Tracy Williams) is a knowledge seeker, dreamer, water protector, land defender, lover, mother, auntie, weaver, and cultural practitioner. Her rich relationships with plants, animals, land, and water have taken her to the tops of mountains, the bottom of the ocean, fields of fireweed, and occasionally art galleries. Her work has appeared in exhibitions such as *lineages and land bases*, Vancouver Art Gallery (2020); *Intangible: Memory and Innovation in Coast Salish Art*, Bill Reid Gallery (2017); and *N. Vancouver*, The Polygon Gallery (2017). In 2021, a commissioned work of Sesemiya’s was included in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s presentation of Yoko Ono’s *Water Event*. Sesemiya is a proud member of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nation.

Dionne Lee is a visual artist working in photography, collage, sculpture, and video. Her work explores power and personal history in relation to the American landscape, and interrogates historical narratives that exist within photographic representations of land and place. Lee received her MFA from California College of the Arts. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Feria Material, Mexico City; New Orleans Museum of Art; Aperture Foundation, New York; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; and the San Francisco Arts Commission, among others. Lee was a 2022 Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation and is a 2021–2023 Artist-in-Residence with Unseen California.

Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based visual artist, curator, writer and editor. Brown is a founding member of Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, and is an ongoing member of the Other Sights Producer team. She was the Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery from 1999 to 2004, an artist-run centre focusing on the relationship between visual art and writing. Between 2015 and 2022, she was Acting Director/Curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, curating exhibition series such as *Beginning With the Seventies* that explored the relationship between art, archives and activism. Brown has exhibited her work internationally since 1984, and has taught at Simon Fraser University and Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she received an honorary doctorate of letters in 2015. Awards include the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts Award (1996) and the Canada Council Paris Studio Award (2000). Her work is in the collections of the Belkin, SFU Galleries, the National Gallery of Canada, the BC Arts Council, the Surrey Art Gallery and the Canada Council Art Bank.

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Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Dionne Lee & Sesemiya with Lorna Brown

In Conversation

Please join us to celebrate CAG's summer 2023 exhibitions, *Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill: M******, *Sesemiya: s7ulh waḵáy̓stn iy ta stamsh cht*, and *Dionne Lee: Ratios*. The artists will be in attendance.

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

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Summer 2023

Opening Reception

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
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with Godfre Leung

Curatorial Tour

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

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

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

Join CAG’s Executive Director Matthew Hyland 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 Matthew Hyland

Sena Cleave

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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 March, we invite you to join us for an art-making workshop led by artist Sena Cleave.

Inspired by CAG’s current exhibition *Kathy Slade: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*, Sena will guide the group in a series of experimental portrait drawing exercises. Influenced by the idea of scrying — which is to look into a surface object to gain insight about oneself or one's future — these drawings will be cut into strips, then woven back together with various other papers, plastics, and fibres.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-scrying-and-weaving-with-sena-cleave-tickets-560753357387).

### Biography
Sena Cleave is an artist who explores the ways images and texts fabricate ideas of femininity, language, and originality or authorship. Their practice involves weaving, video, and photographic image making, as well as quoting and recombining found text. By bringing together materials found in research and in everyday life, Cleave points to the slippage that occurs when an idea is translated between mediums, languages, or cultural and historical contexts. The found materials become recontextualized among one another, and together they generate something that resembles a whole — one that is jumbled and misbehaving.

### 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.

A portrait of Sena Cleave. They are wearing a blue turtleneck with mesh sleeves. They have straight short brown hair, brown eyes and a silver septum piercing.

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Scrying and Weaving with Sena Cleave

Brady Cranfield

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 March, we welcome Brady Cranfield to speak on the work of Kathy Slade. 

### 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.

### Biography
Brady Cranfield is a Vancouver-based sound and visual artist, musician, and writer. He holds a MA in Communications and a MFA from Simon Fraser University. He is the founder and co-organizer (in collaboration with the artist Kathy Slade) of the ongoing public art project The Music Appreciation Society, and he has frequently collaborated with artist Jamie Hilder. He is currently also a member of the improv/electronic/jazz trio Alfred Jarry.

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Brady Cranfield on Kathy Slade

Allison Grimaldi Donahue

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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 Allison Grimaldi Donahue. Allison has chosen to read the poetry book *The Nick of Time* by Rosmarie Waldrop.

### Getting the texts
*The Nick of Time* is available for purchase in the CAG bookstore, [Massy Books](https://storestock.massybooks.com/item/hvTabYmi134dYXBOloHn-Q) and at the [Vancouver Public Library](https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C8276982).

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtf-mqqD4vGdwIl8PqwyHXVEGJdIvfvN_5). 

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
Allison Grimaldi Donahue (b. 1984, Middletown, CT) works in text and performance exploring modes in which language and text can move between individual and collective experience. She often employs participatory writing methods to build improvised communities of writers and translators, investigating the ways in which language is useful and useless, meaningful and a receptacle. She is author of *Body to Mineral* (Publication Studio Vancouver 2016) and On Endings (Delere Press 2019) and translator of *Blown Away* by vito m. bonito (Fomite 2021) and *Self-portrait* by Carla Lonzi (Divided 2021). She has given recent performances at Short Theatre, Almanac Turin, MACRO, MAMbo, Fondazione Giuliani and Kunsthalle Bern. In 2022 together with Caterina Moltenti at MAMbo Bologna she curated a retrospective of the work of concrete and sound poet Giulia Niccolai. She is currently working on a project at Sonnenstube Lugano around the work of Swiss lesbian feminist author Alice Ceresa. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and earned her PhD in 2021 from the European Graduate School under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. She lives in Bologna, Italy.

A portrait of Allison Grimaldi Donahue. She is wearing glasses, a light-blue denim button up and white pants.

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Allison Grimaldi Donahue presents Rosmarie Waldrop

Debbie C.

Hannah Dubois

Kyla Dooley

Ysabel Gana

Danielle Bobier

A. Branch

Pierre Kaufman

This winter, CAG is pleased to host in its lobby a curatorial project by The Couch, entitled *Hometown II*. On view from February 9 to March 3, 2023, *Hometown II* features the work of A. Branch, Danielle Bobier, Kyla Dooley, Hannah Dubois, Ysabel Gana, and Pierre Kaufman.

Organized by Debbie C. and Sena Cleave, The Couch is a mobile art space that draws on the homemaking practices of carpenter ants to platform the work of emerging artists. Consisting of a couch and a coffee table, The Couch hosts gatherings that merge art and daily life, “infesting” galleries, living rooms, lobbies, outdoor public spaces and more. Art objects are exhibited on the table, and guests are invited to sit on the couch. 

For *Hometown II*, The Couch's organizers issued a call for art objects inspired by their research into artist Kim Beom’s book “Hometown,” which they encountered in CAG’s Abraham Rogatnick Library:

> First published in 1998 in Seoul, Korea, "Hometown" is about Ungyeri, a town that does not exist. Artist Kim Beom invites readers to learn about Ungyeri in order to claim it as their hometown, explaining that because the town does not exist, no one can contest these claims. The book acts as a guide for those who do not know their hometown or do not wish to reveal it though they have one. And “even if you do not have such a need,” Kim writes, “some of you may want to imagine a small, nameless mountain village or wish to have stories about places other than those that everybody recognizes by name or large, stifling cities.” He instructs readers on how to take on the qualities of a former Ungyeri resident, including details about the town’s location, customs, economics, and history.

> In the preface to the English edition of the book, Kim adds “it would indeed have been ideal if I could have created a hometown for each of you somewhere in your own country that has an environment similar to those of other people’s hometowns.” We take this as an invitation to continue Kim’s work of imagining space and place, intervening in existing infrastructures, and playing with narratives of belonging. We invite submissions by emerging artists that explore these ideas or otherwise respond to Kim’s "Hometown."

This project is presented as part of The Couch’s CAG Prize Residency, awarded yearly to an outstanding graduating BFA student (or students) in SFU’s Visual Art Program. The Couch (Debbie C. & Sena Cleave) were the recipients of the 2022 CAG Prize.

### Biography
The Couch is a mobile art space that draws on the homemaking practices of carpenter ants to platform the work of emerging artists. Carpenter ants chew faults into human infrastructures to build their own homes, but an infestation alone cannot demolish a building. Instead, the ants uncover the foundations by disturbing surface elements like window sills or baseboards. When The Couch is installed within a gallery, it carves out space for artists that the institution did not invite, thus infesting the gallery. 

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The Couch: Hometown II

CAG Prize Residency

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Join CAG’s Assistant Curator Julia Lamare 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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Curatorial Tour with Julia Lamare

CANCELLED

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 February, we welcome Lorna Brown to speak on the work of Kathy Slade. 

### 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.

### Biography
Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based visual artist, curator, writer and editor. Brown is a founding member of Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, and is an ongoing member of the Other Sights Producer team. She was the Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery from 1999 to 2004, an artist-run centre focusing on the relationship between visual art and writing. Between 2015 and 2022, she was Acting Director/Curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, curating exhibition series such as *Beginning With the Seventies* that explored the relationship between art, archives and activism. Brown has exhibited her work internationally since 1984, and has taught at Simon Fraser University and Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she received an honorary doctorate of letters in 2015. Awards include the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts Award (1996) and the Canada Council Paris Studio Award (2000). Her work is in the collections of the Belkin, SFU Galleries, the National Gallery of Canada, the BC Arts Council, the Surrey Art Gallery and the Canada Council Art Bank.

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Lorna Brown on Kathy Slade

Marianne Nicolson

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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 Marianne Nicolson. Marianne has chosen to read *Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call* (2015) by Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson and Arthur Manuel.

### Getting the texts
*Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call* is available to order from [Massy Books](https://storestock.massybooks.com/item/mynpmgPBvvL1VKVdC0q90g) and can also be found at the [Vancouver Public Library](https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Unsettling%20Canada%3A%20A%20National%20Wake-Up%20Call&searchType=smart).

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvc-yupzwiE9y_6-0WFAD7mCBHArk5_K-5). 

Questions? Send us a note at 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
Marianne Nicolson is an artist activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. The Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw Nations are part of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwak’wala speaking peoples) of the Pacific Northwest Coast. She is trained in both traditional Kwakwaka’wakw forms and culture and contemporary gallery and museum-based practice. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1996), a Master of Fine Arts (2000) from the University of Victoria, as well as a Master of Arts (2005) in Linguistics and Anthropology and a PhD (2013) in Linguistics and Anthropology with a focus on space as expressed in the Kwak’wala language. Nicolson works as a Kwakwaka’wakw cultural researcher and historian, as well as an advocate for Indigenous land rights. Her practice is multi-disciplinary encompassing photography, painting, carving, video, installation, monumental public art, writing and speaking. All her work is political in nature and seeks to uphold Kwakwaka’wakw traditional philosophy and worldview through contemporary mediums and technology. Exhibitions include the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; The Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Museum of the American Indian in New York, Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Ontario, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands and many others. Major monumental public artworks are situated in Vancouver International Airport, the Canadian Embassy in Amman, Jordan and the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France.

A portrait of Marianne Nicolson. She is smiling in front of a colourful backdrop.

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Marianne Nicolson presents Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson and Arthur Manuel

Vitória Monteiro

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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 February, we invite you to join us for an art-making workshop led by artist and CAG’s Acting Curator of Learning and Engagement, Vitória Monteiro.

Inspired by CAG’s upcoming exhibition *Kathy Slade: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*, Vitória will guide participants in an art-making activity that will explore the technique of frottage; the process of transferring surface textures by rubbing over them with various art mediums. Carried out through a creative exploration of textures, the workshop will engage in the various ways we all think about, take part in, and make use of practices of ‘collecting’.

Vitória invites participants to bring textured items to the workshop. 

Many spaces have been reserved for neurodivergent participants.
 
### Accessibility
A portion of the workshop will take place outside and requires participants to make their way around city sidewalks and parks. Please contact us at [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) if you have any accessibility needs.

A note from the artist: This is a neurodivergent-friendly space! Please feel welcome to bring stim toys and headphones or anything else you use to regulate. I will do my best to make the space cozy and comfortable by minimizing overhead lighting, reducing noise and providing alternative seating options for those of us who like to switch it up and sit on the floor!

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
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-sensations-of-deja-vu-with-vitoria-monteiro-tickets-506758306737).

### Biography
Vitória Monteiro is a Brazilian-Canadian artist who explores the intricacies of language abstraction and the reprocessing of information. Monteiro works in paper-making, sculpture and performance to navigate various sites that knowledge inhabits. Their work embodies themes of dislocation, translation, indexicality, and citation, and is rooted in reflections of being neurodivergent. Their recent and upcoming exhibitions include: *To Fold; To Fault*, CityScape Community ArtSpace (2023); *I have forgotten my umbrella*, Mónica Reyes Gallery (2022); *Just Out of Reach*, The Couch Space as part of Unit/Pitt’s Wrong Wave Festival (2022) and *Digital Interventions Part 2: Mediating Vessels*, Massy Art Gallery (2022).


A portrait of Vitoria. They are wearing a black turtleneck with mesh sleeves and big black over ear headphones.

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Sensations of Déjà Vu with Vitória Monteiro

Lisa Robertson

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Join us for a talk in the gallery between Kathy Slade and Lisa Robertson on the occasion of Slade's exhibition *As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is required. Secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-conversation-kathy-slade-and-lisa-robertson-tickets-515246836157).

### 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.

### Biographies
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.

Lisa Robertson (b. 1961, Toronto) is a Canadian poet and essayist. She was a longtime resident of Vancouver, where in the early ’90s she began writing, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets that included Artspeak Gallery and The Kootenay School of Writing. She has continued these activities for 30 years, publishing books, leaflets and posters, translating poetry and linguistics from French, lecturing and teaching internationally, and continuing her ongoing study into the political constitution of lyric voice. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in NY awarded her the inaugural CD Wright Award in Poetry. She has taught at Cambridge University, Princeton, UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and American University of Paris, as well as holding research and residency positions at institutions across Canada, the US and Europe. Her recent books include the novel *The Baudelaire Fractal* and the poetry collection *Boat*, both from Coach House Books, as well as *Anemones*, a translation and study of Simone Weil published by If I Can’t Dance, in Amsterdam. She lives in France.


An stitched image of Kathy Slade and Lisa Robertson.

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Kathy Slade and Lisa Robertson

Please join us to celebrate CAG's winter 2023 exhibition, *Kathy Slade: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*.

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

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Winter 2023

Rain Cabana-Boucher

Chipo Chipaziwa

Phoebe Bei

Luca Cara Seccafien

Ruby Smith Díaz

CAG and Ground Floor are delighted to announce the recipients of this year's WEDGE residencies. These residencies will provide early-emerging artists and cultural practitioners with the opportunity to work directly with a mentor to explore a research question related to the past, present and or future of “Vancouver” culminating in a public-facing audio output in 2023.

### Phoebe Bei
Mentored by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen and Helmut Weber) 

Phoebe Bei is an interdisciplinary artist working largely in image-based processes and installation. Her work navigates fictional and existing embodiments of land, and how land is occupied and disseminated in the production of home, culture and identity. Bei was British Columbia’s recipient of the BMO 1st Art! Prize in 2018 and holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University. She has exhibited at the Audain Gallery, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, James Black Gallery, and Or Gallery.

### Rain Cabana-Boucher
Mentored by Laiwan

Rain Cabana-Boucher is a Michif/British settler interdisciplinary artist raised in Treaty 6 territory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her family has historic ties to the Michif communities of St. François Xavier and St. Boniface, Manitoba, and St. Louis, Saskatchewan. She currently lives and works on the stolen land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ and xwməθkwəy̓əm Nations. Cabana-Boucher explores the autobiographical in relation to place and politics, seeking to navigate the complexities of identity within environments that are rapidly changing under systematic pressures. She is a recent recipient of the Takao Tanabe Prize for emerging British Columbia Painters and the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant.

### Chipo Chipaziwa
Mentored by Krystal Paraboo

Chipo Chipaziwa is a visual artist who predominantly works in the medium of performance art. 
 
Chipaziwa’s practice concerns itself with the fluidity of identity, the performativity of the Black body and Chipaziwa’s own investigation of disrupting the gaze of the other. 
 
Chipaziwa has previously worked with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, the City of Vancouver and Live Biennale. 
 
Chipaziwa currently resides on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

### Ruby Smith Díaz
Mentored by Wayde Compton 

Ruby Smith Díaz is an Afrolatina educator, multi-disciplinary artist and body positive personal trainer. She was born in amiskwaciy, and graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in Education with distinction. Her work as a filmmaker has been featured at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax and at the Vancouver Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in Nora Samaran’s book *Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture* and Harsha Walia’s *Undoing Border Imperialism*. Currently, Ruby spends most of her time facilitating her arts-based Black Histories + Futures workshops in high schools and coaching people of all backgrounds to be their strongest selves.

### Luca Cara Seccafien
Mentored by Afuwa 

Luca Cara Seccafien is a comic artist, printmaker, facilitator, and cultural worker on the stolen ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ people. Their semi-autobiographical artwork reflects upon the experience of being disabled by trauma while surviving through relational queerness.

Luca has worked alongside veteran artists and activists at 221A, Gallery Gachet, Powell Street Festival, Queer Arts Festival, Heart of the City Festival, and beyond. They’ve spent twelve years working in fundraising, administration, operational, managerial, and production capacities in the arts. Luca co-founded WePress Community Arts Space, where they facilitated printmaking education for communities coping with systemic oppression.

A collage featuring, amongst other details, a bird’s-eye view of a mottled orange surface, a wedge of light blue fun fur and a bread tag. In blue iridescent text, the word “WEDGE” appears across the image.

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A black and white portrait of Phoebe Bei. It is closely cropped to frame her face. She is looking directly into the camera.

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A portrait of Rain Cabana-Boucher. She is seated in front of a black and white painting hung on a white brick wall, on which two smaller images hang.

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A portrait of Chipo Chipaziwa. The image is a screenshot of an open Photobooth window. The bottom half of her face and torso are within frame.

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A portrait of Ruby Smith Díaz. Half of her face is within the frame. A lens flare stretches across the photo.

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A portrait of Luca Cara Seccafien. They are wearing a blue button up shirt and a blazer. A view of the city is behind them.