Ambivalent Pleasures: Emily Carr Lecture Series

January 26March 30, 2017

‘Exploring issues related to the complexities of curating as a manner of contemporary, cosmopolitan knowledge production, these lectures examine the etiquette of intercultural mutualities and the anxieties of globalised courtship to render intelligible and generative curatorship as excitable anticipation.’

Topics in Global Art: Call • Convene • Collect
Emily Carr University, South Building Room 301
Thursdays, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Presented with Dr. Cissie Fu, Dean Faculty of Community + Culture

January 26 – Hafthor Yngvason, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham
February 2 – Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
February 9 – Stephanie Smith, ICA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
February 23 – Sohrab Mohebbi, REDCAT, CalArts, Los Angeles
March 2 – Richard Birkett, Yale Union, Portland
March 9 – Kari Conte, Independent and Studio Curatorial Program, New York
March 16 – Lisa Marei Schmidt, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
March 23 – Alex Klein, ICA Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
March 30 – Gayatri Sinha, Critical Collective, New Delhi

This lecture series is a part of the Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures Library and Public Program; visit the project page for additional programming.

Co-presented by 221A, Emily Carr University of Art + Design and The Vancouver Art Gallery, for the occasion of Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures. Supported by the Province of British Columbia’s Creative Economy Strategy.