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    sum of the parts

    sum of the parts

    Contributors

    Throughout the Spring season, 221A hosts sum of the parts, a curatorial research project by Jenn Jackson which brings together a selection of films, performances and installations by artists who activate personal histories which are drawn from familial and public record. Artists, Deanna Bowen, Felix Kalmenson, Divya Mehra, Krista Belle Stewart, and Casey Wei, present compelling excavations of the past, by drawing from familial, historic, and archival sources; visualizing narratives of race and class, and their recognition within official records.

    Each film and performance provides a framework for a larger narrative of archival complexities—offering a visual key to examine discourses on the commodification and construction of historic record in relation to the business of archival storage, preservation, and dissemination within the public realm. In mining the potential of the private and public archive, these artists interrogate the visual and material nature of historical reference and activate immaterial records. Research associated with sum of the parts will form a new collection at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library.

    For the second event in the series, join media analyst Svitlana Matviyenko and curator Jenn Jackson at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library for the screening of artist Felix Kalmenson’s films Neither Country, Nor Graveyard (2017) and A House of Skin (2016), Wednesday, May 16 at 7 pm.

    Schedule of Events


    Performance by Divya Mehra
    Saturday, March 24, 2018
    Pollyanna 圖書館 Library

    Screening with Felix Kalmenson
    Wednesday, May 16, 2018
    Pollyanna 圖書館 Library  

    Screening with Casey Wei
    Sunday, May 27, 2018 
    The Cinematheque

    Screening and Artist Talk with Deanna Bowen
    Saturday, June 16, 2018
    Pollyanna 圖書館 Library

    Krista Belle Stewart
    Saturday, June 30, 2018

    Supporters

    sum of the parts is supported by the Killy Foundation and the Audain Endowment research awards through the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia.