ALL LOST: Dawn Johnston May 24 – July 20, 2013 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:00-9:00pm A Conversation between the Artist and Access Director/Curator Kimberly Phillips: Thursday, July 18, 7:00-8:30pm ALL LOST is a solo exhibition of new work by the Vancouver-based artist Dawn Johnston. A recent MFA graduate from the University of Guelph, Johnston’s
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We are delighted to announce the appointment of Kimberly Phillips as the new Director/Curator of Access Gallery! An independent writer, curator, art historian, educator, and most recently, Head of Interpretation at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Kimberly Phillips has spent the last decade working in the space between contemporary art and the audiences who encounter
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SWEAT: Gaye Chan Launch: Saturday April 27 7-9pm Saturday, April 27 to Friday, May 3, 2013 (please see performance schedule below) Access Gallery / Project Space 222 E. Georgia St. Part theater and part demonstration, SWEAT features artist Gaye Chan weaving baskets in a week-long performance. The baskets are made with bale straps, a
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Date Posted: 26 February 2013 Call for Applications: Director/Curator Access Gallery is an artist run centre dedicated to emergent art practices. We provide a platform for emerging artists, curators, and other cultural practitioners through exhibitions, residencies, and public programs. Access strives to spark critical conversations about contemporary art by nurturing experimentation within the gallery space
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BRAIDS: Co-residency and Collaborative Installation by Rua Minx and Aja Rose Bond Residency: March 4 – 28, 2013 Installation: March 30 – April 27, 2013 Performance and Reception: Friday, March 29, 2013 8pm Access Gallery presents Braids a co-residency between emerging Vancouver artist Aja Rose Bond and RUA MINX, an experimental sound project founded by American artist Donna Huanca in
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Access Gallery presents our Annual Fundraising Auction! Hold Them Up in Good Light Friday February 22nd, 8pm – 12am Auction Preview: Friday February 15th, 8-11pm 222 East Georgia St. $15, Free for Members. Visit our Auction Website: auction.accessgallery.ca Access Gallery invites you to our 2013 auction fundraiser! Join us on Friday February 22nd at 8pm
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ENCYCLONOSPACE IRANICA: Talk with Curator – in – Residence Mohammed Salemy Sunday February 24, 2 – 4pm, Access Gallery, 222 East Georgia St. Access invites you to an informal afternoon with the gallery’s curator-in-residence. Mohammad Salemy has been involved with a project titled ENCYCLONOSPACE IRANICA, an extensive curatorial research initiative that engages with diasporic Iranian
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Group Effort – Post Occupancy Evaluation: Artist Talk/Project Pitch Catherine Pulkinghorn March 2, 2013: 2pm @ Access Gallery Launching with a talk on March 2nd, artist Catherine Pulkinghorn seeks community feedback and participation in an upcoming project. Driven by her recent experience becoming the owner of a pre-sale condominium in Vancouver’s infamous real estate landscape,
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Artist Talk with Sean Alward Saturday December 8, at 2pm. Join us for Sean Alward’s artist talk and come see the 2nd installment of his solo exhibition, A Vertical City Goes Both Ways on until December 22. Access Gallery proudly presents A Vertical City Goes Both Ways, a two-part solo exhibition by Vancouver artist Sean
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Pleasure & Protest, Sometimes Simultaneously: A Free School Organized by RL Cutler and Magnolia Pauker This version of the Free School model embraces free access to ideas in an open learning environment through an engagement with visual culture, radical philosophy and gender critique. Current events that take up protest, free speech and social change inform
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FAG Satellite @ Access Gallery In the shadow of our own dust / Valerie Salez / October 2-6 Reception and Performance: Friday October 5th, 8 – 11pm In a hybrid practice that combines ritual with drawing, sculpture, video and installation, Salez presents ceremony as the original social/relational art practice. She approaches the work from a point beyond
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FAG Satellite @ Access Gallery The Queen’s Punishment /Sharlene Bamboat / October 11-13 Performance Schedule: October 11, 8:30 PM / October 12, 8:30 PM / October 13, 9:30 PM The sentence: 249 feet of copper wire; 154 pennies; 60 acts of retribution A 3 part performance installation by Sharlene Bamboat. On March 29, 2012 it was announced that
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September 21 (9pm) Olio Festival Performance Night Organized by: Heidi Nagtegaal The stylus is in the groove, orbiting in a night of feminist noise, dance, and performance at Access Gallery presented in conjunction with The School of the Free Hammock and the FAG Satellite @ Access. Performers include Mirae Rosner + Heidi Nagtegaal, Eden Veaudry, Bushtit, and
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FAG Satellite @ Access Gallery The School of the Free Hammock / Heidi Nagtegaal / September 19-22 Olio Festival Performance Night : Friday September 21st, 9pm Writing/RIGHTing a Feminist Art Practice: an investigation into parallel texts and parallel FAGs: Saturday, Sept 22, 3 – 5 pm // Facilitated by Amy Fung (limited space, registration required) The School of the Free Hammock
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FAG Satellite @ Access Gallery RESISTERECTOMY / Chase Joynt / September 7-12 Opening Reception/Swarm13: Friday September 7th, 8pm (IN)FORMAL DISCLOSURES: Screening and Artist Talk: Wednesday September 12th, 7pm RESISTERECTOMY is a 4-part multi-media moving image installation by Toronto artist Chase Joynt. Joynt challenges the boundaries of a gendered body through the examination and infiltration of, in and on various medical
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FAG Satellite @ Access Gallery Writing/RIGHTing a Feminist Art Practice: an investigation into parallel texts and parallel FAGs Saturday, Sept 22, 3 – 5 pm Facilitated by Amy Fung Hosted by The Hammock Residency as part of FAG Satellite at Access Gallery Investigating and challenging the parameters of language, namely, art language as a directive, descriptive,
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FAG Satellite @ Access Gallery Performing CAMP / Alexis Mitchell / September 13-15 Reception: Friday September 14th, 8pm (Purim party/Costumes are encouraged!) Performing CAMP engages 3 types of camp environments in order to re-evaluate and re-tell traditional Jewish narratives. Using a queer reading of the Purim story, the censored passages in Anne Frank’s diary, and an analysis of the
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FAG Satellite @ Access Gallery (IN)FORMAL DISCLOSURES: Screening and Artist Talk / Wednesday September 12th, 7pm (Free) Through a presentation of their newest works, alongside the projects of Feminist Art Gallery contemporaries, Toronto-based media artists Chase Joynt and Alexis Mitchell ask us to question what it means to create documentary works that seemingly utter
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Born in Flames Screening August 25 (7pm) Celebrate the launch of FAG Satellite @ Access with a screening of the cult classic 1983 feminist science fiction by director Lizzie Borden in all its 16mm glory. The film will be introduced by FAG Co-founders Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell. ‘Born in Flames poses the question of whether
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CAN’T/WON’T August 25-September 6 Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell (Toronto) The first installation of the FAG Satellite @ Access presents work by Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell co-founders of the Feminist Art Gallery. Logue and Mitchell have aligned development and artistic goals in order to operate FAG on its own terms. Logue is currently the
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MagScene with OCW Magazine, Project Space, Access Gallery, Fillip Magazine, and Hammock Residency present: Thoughts on Text: A Hammock Residency Project August 16 – 18 Special Event: Friday August 17, 8 – 11:30pm. @ Access Gallery 222 E. Georgia St. Including current, previous and past Hammock Residents: Golboo Amani, Patrick Cruz, Jordan Bent, Chloe Gammon,
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Always Working Didier Courbot, Jamie Hilder, David Horvitz, Kelly Mark, Carey Young Curated by Gabrielle Moser June 23–July 28, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, June 22, 8-11 pm Panel Discussion: Saturday, June 23, 3 pm No Reading After the Internet reading salon: Wednesday, June 27, 7 pm For one dollar David Horvitz will think about you
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Access Member’s Dinner @ Dunlevy Snackbar Join us Saturday June 23rd at 6:30pm for a delicious three course meal in support of Access! Hosted at the cozy Dunlevy Snackbar located at 433 Dunlevy Avenue. Menu* Green Gazpacho – Herb Polenta Pizza al Funghi OR Braised Oxtail Stew – Mango Sorbet *a glass of wine is included!
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Access Gallery’s Annual General Meeting Wednesday June 27th, 6:00pm Join us to celebrate another year at Access. We encourage all members to attend. Members who cannot attend can vote by proxy. Please contact Access for details. Following the AGM Access will be hosting No Reading After the Internet: Hito Steyerl’s “Politics of Art” For more information please
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