221A

//////////////////// /diagonal zine fair

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:58:27 +0000

4:00pm – 11:00pm
Diagonal is in its first year of operation,
it is a zine fair /show

Magazines /zines /printed works from
hamburger eyes
anteism
puppy teeth
smoke signals
darling [mag]
patrick cruz
island folds
wizard gang
no where fast collective
black bile
black budgie distribution
mongrel zine
maya beaudry
OCW
hack saw literary arts magazine
poetry is dead
sad magazine
rain magazine
bob scott
melanie coles
erin kraan
taryn hubbard
jason sunder
ashleigh kay rajala

Exhibit style work from
erin marranca
patrick cruz
bob scott

Film presentation
r. thomas white & chris lennox-aasen present “gutter standard”
adam huggins & mohsen yazdani present “the point at which, the place where”

Music /performance
jesua
more t.b.a

& bake sale /bar
Facebook Event

PACT 6: LET

jeff — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:56:13 +0000

How it works:

Theme announced.
Work, interviews, reviews, resources, readings is/are produced/prepared/recorded/written/collected/selected by you and us.
Work submitted/installed/prepared one day prior from 2:00pm – 8:00pm.
Food cooked/prepared/purchased potluck format.
Event held with all of above at 8:00pm – 11:00pm.
Work de-installed/cleaned/removed by 11:30pm.
Pact collateral collected and assembled into web publication. See archives.

Pact Purposes

Provide non-juried exhibition opportunity
Participation and celebration – community/volunteer/member
Building industry – networking/knowledge/resources

HOT DOG DAY

jeff — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:12:31 +0000

Hot Dog Day at 221A

Noon to Night
$4 Hot Dog (animal or veggie)
$4 Beer

Hot dogs provided by Street Meet
Music by Labour of Love
Seating by bring your own lawn chair

A fund-raiser in support of the 221A Artist Run Centre (non-profit society).
Illustration by Andrea Wan

HOOK-NESS

jeff — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:02:26 +0000

Emilie Madill, Jeff Werner, Michelle Fu, Amanda Huynh, Joshua Doherty, Anna Gukov, Joji Fukushima

221A Artist Run Centre presents Hook-ness, a collaborative exhibition featuring the work of seven Vancouver-based designers who explore the complexities of ‘hook’. Each designer questions the conventions and assumptions of hooks – offering an array of new findings, interpretations and narratives.

The Hook-ness exhibition is the first of a series of investigative studies conducted under the scope of the –Ness project, conceived by Vancouver designer and curator Joji Fukushima. –Ness explores a strategy of design investigation where mundane events and phenomena are examined and re-designed to expose the limitations of our established perceptions.

Opening Reception:
7:00pm, Friday, May 21, 2010

Talks:
7:00pm, Thursday, June 10, 2010

Hours:
Thurs/Fri: 4:00-8:00pm
Sat/Sun: 12:00-5:00pm

hook-ness.com

PACT 5: BEAST

jeff — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:25:47 +0000

How it works:

Theme announced.
Work, interviews, reviews, resources, readings is/are produced/prepared/recorded/written/collected/selected by you and us.
Work submitted/installed/prepared one day prior from 2:00pm – 8:00pm.
Food cooked/prepared/purchased potluck format.
Event held with all of above at 8:00pm – 11:00pm.
Work de-installed/cleaned/removed by 11:30pm.
Pact collateral collected and assembled into web publication. See archives.

Pact Purposes

Provide non-juried exhibition opportunity
Participation and celebration – community/volunteer/member
Building industry – networking/knowledge/resources

DAISHO V

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:07:45 +0000

221A Artist Run Centre & Daisho workshops presents a talk and demo by Daryl Mandryk, Senior Concept Artist, Propaganda Games. For more information please see http://daisho.ca.

Tickets sold out

Daisho workshops sets up affordable opportunities to meet and learn directly from video-game/animation industry professionals in an intimate setting. See how they work, ask questions, hear stories, network and be inspired.

MATTER WORK

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:36:03 +0000

The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to present Matter Work, an exhibition of new works by emerging Vancouver artists Nicole Ondre and Alainnah Whachell. Recognizing the poetry and intelligence inherent in materials, Ondre and Whachell eloquently negotiate the territory between an immediate relationship with matter and the historical inflections of form and substance. Whachell’s sculptures reveal an exuberant relationship to materiality and process, as her luscious illusionistic surfaces of glitter and resin contrast the light corporeality of foam and cardboard forms.

Through their simultaneous crudeness and solemn beauty, these structures engage in a dialogue with the authoritative legacy of Modernist sculpture. In Ondre’s paintings, layers of brushwork in all varieties — immediately present, collaged and photocopied — revolve in a circular and self-referential process. Through concise handling of paint and paper, she finds herself immersed in an intense investigation into the material and conceptual properties of painting.

Nicole Ondre and Allainah Whachell are senior Visual Arts students at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Matter Work is curated by the Helen Pitt Gallery’s Emily Carr Co-op students Jen Aitken, Vanessa Disler, and Mike Stupin.

Hours:
Wednesday to Friday 3-7pm
Saturday 12-4pm

Pact 4: TRADE (OFFSITE)

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:46:02 +0000

221A Artist Run Centre presents Pact 4 in conjunction with the World Tea Party and Bright Light at Centre A (Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art). During the Pact participants will have access to use two large (6000 lumens) projected images on the front windows of Centre A.

Theme: TRADE

Pairings: deal, exchange, interchange, swap, trade-in, pass, share, trade wind, transact, flip-flop, conversion, transmit, switch around, alternate
See past Pacts

How it works:

1. Theme announced.
2. Work, interviews, reviews, resources, readings is/are produced/prepared/recorded/written/collected/selected by you and us.
3. Work submitted/installed/prepared one day prior from 2:00pm – 8:00pm.
4. Food & drink cooked/prepared/purchased potluck format.
5. Event held with all of above at 8:00pm – 11:00pm.
6. Work de-installed/cleaned/removed by 11:30pm.
7. Pact collateral collected and assembled into web publication. See archives.

Pact Purposes
1. Provide non-juried exhibition opportunity
2. Participation and celebration – community/volunteer/member
3. Building industry – networking/knowledge/resources

Rules of the Potluck

1. Food – Bring food and eat food!
2. Labels – Allergens alerts & vegetarian/vegan labels provided.
3. Cutlery – We have re-useable plates/cups if you forget yours.
4. Finger Food – Make sure all food can be handled with fingers.
5. Beverages – Bring drinkables. Beer & wine will be sold for $4.
6. Leftovers – We will give away what is left.

History
The Pact was the founding reason for 221A Artist Run Centre (then – NOART Vancouver Artist Collective). It served as the backbone to the organization, holding 12 Pacts from 2005-2007. Held in room 260 at the Emily Carr Institute, the event awkwardly mixed facilitation with production and participation, creating our first group of dedicated members. Only in 2009, after the development of a permanent facility, has the Pact been reconsidered as a major activity. The premise of the old Pact is fundamentally similar to the new one, but with over two years seperating them we felt that it was appropriate to reset the number from Pact 12 to Pact 1. Although the collective that originated this activity does not exist anymore, we’ve maintained the existing website at http://noart.ca that documents the old 12.

Dinner Here Panel Discussion

jeff — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:25:09 +0000

March 6, 2010 – 2pm

Kyle Duske and the 221A Artist Run Centre invite you to join us again this Saturday, March 6th for an artist talk and to continue discussions around DINNER HERE.

Dinner Here is a collaborative project between Kyle Duske and Jenipher Hur. In 2007 Hur invited Duske to participate in the Invite Me To Your Dinner project. When an invitation to this project is accepted, the participant is expected to host a dinner for Hur. In reciprocation, she walks from her home in Port Moody to the chosen dinning location. The dinners are most often held in Vancouver.

In 2009, Duske accepted the invitation. The dinner was held on February 13th, 2010 at 221A ARC. There was a private reception viewable through 221A’s store front windows and an open reception was held soon after. This project explores social structures, relationships and traditions through the act of dinner and all of its parts from invitations to remnants.

UBC ARCHITECTURE THESIS EXHIBITION

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:00:05 +0000

Opening Reception:
5:00pm, Feb 5

Exhibition Hours:
10am – 8pm, Feb 6
12pm – 8pm, Feb 7

Projects by:
Kenji Hoshide
Steve Di Pasquale
David Guenter
Craig Bissell
Jordon Lock
Heather Maxwell
Vicki Ha
Maranatha Coulas
Brooke Dedrick
Julian Hou
Chris Mills
Rachael Kitagawa
Halima Qureshi
Bryan Beca

UBC School of Architecture
+ Landscape Architecture