Saturday, 11 February 2012
Deanna Bowen Lecture Feb. 16, 2012 5:30pm @ McGill University Arts Building, Room W-215
Art History and Communication Studies
Speakers Series 2012
Presents a lecture by: Deanna Bowen
Thursday, February 16th, 2012: 5:30pm
McGill University, Downtown Campus
853 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal
Arts Building, Room W-215
“The Ties that Bind: Recent Works”
Deanna Bowen is a descendant of the Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneers of Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. She is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally in numerous film festivals and galleries. She has received several grants in support of her artistic practice. Current works have been shown at the Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, the Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, the Images Festival of Film, Video & New Media, the Art Gallery of Peterborough, and the Art Gallery of York University. She was recently awarded research/creation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts to develop and create Pain and Wastings (formerly visitations), an experimental video installation/dual portrait based on her mother's stories of growing up in one of the few black families residing in Vancouver, BC through the 1950s-'80s. Bowen is currently working on The Paul Good Papers, an interdisciplinary residency/installation for the Images Festival and Gallery 44 (April 2012 launch) based on the archived recordings of veteran broadcast Civil Rights reporter Paul Good. Bowen will also premiere a major solo intervention/exhibition that unravels the Ku Klux Klan and its connections to Canada for Spring 2013 @ the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) in Toronto.
Co-sponsored by:
The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Media and Urban Life Research Group (FQRSC)
Social Equity and Diversity in Education
Black Student Network
Social Equity and Diversity in Education
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Artist Talk : RICHARD FUNG : Fri FEB 10 @ 1:30pm
*Public Talk and Screening: Richard Fung*
*Video Artist/Writer/Theorist *
*Friday, February 10 -- 1:30 pm -- 2:30 pm*
*Hall 110: 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. *
Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist, writer, theorist and educator. He holds a degree in cinema studies as well as an ME in sociology and cultural studies, both from the University of Toronto. He is Associate Professor in the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
His work comprises of a series of challenging videos on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS and his own family history. His tapes, which include *My Mother’s Place*(1990), *Sea in the Blood* (2000) and *Uncomfortable* (2005), have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada and the United States.
His essays have been published in many journals and anthologies, and he is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of*13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics *(2002), recently updated and translated into French. Richard is a past Rockefeller Fellow at New York University and has received the Bell Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video as well as the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art.
Fung has always seen himself as much as an educator as an artist, and in Helen Lee’s essay ‘Dirty Dozen: Playing 12 Questions with Richard Fung’ from *Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung* (Images Festival and Insomniac Press, 2002), Fung says he aims to produce work which is ‘pedagogical, but hopefully not pedantic’. Richard is a public intellectual who has pushed forward the debates about queer sexuality, Asian identity and the uneasy borderlands of culture and politics.
*Video Artist/Writer/Theorist *
*Friday, February 10 -- 1:30 pm -- 2:30 pm*
*Hall 110: 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. *
Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist, writer, theorist and educator. He holds a degree in cinema studies as well as an ME in sociology and cultural studies, both from the University of Toronto. He is Associate Professor in the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
His work comprises of a series of challenging videos on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS and his own family history. His tapes, which include *My Mother’s Place*(1990), *Sea in the Blood* (2000) and *Uncomfortable* (2005), have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada and the United States.
His essays have been published in many journals and anthologies, and he is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of*13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics *(2002), recently updated and translated into French. Richard is a past Rockefeller Fellow at New York University and has received the Bell Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video as well as the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art.
Fung has always seen himself as much as an educator as an artist, and in Helen Lee’s essay ‘Dirty Dozen: Playing 12 Questions with Richard Fung’ from *Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung* (Images Festival and Insomniac Press, 2002), Fung says he aims to produce work which is ‘pedagogical, but hopefully not pedantic’. Richard is a public intellectual who has pushed forward the debates about queer sexuality, Asian identity and the uneasy borderlands of culture and politics.
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