SWEAT / 汗 A Performance by Gaye Chan

SWEAT / 汗
GAYE CHAN / PERFORMANCE

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 common detritus of global capitalism found around nearly every box shipped across the globe, binding box to box, paper to paper, and everything to pallets. Chan has salvaged the bale straps from the streets, and from neighboring shopkeepers who save them for her.  Some have agreed to do so in exchange for a finished basket, others have agreed just because.

Taking place in a Chinatown storefront encased in a semi-transparent white cube, Chan’s labor is visible only by her working hands inserted through ‘sleeves’ emanating from the cube’s back wall. Through one and the same body and action, SWEAT materializes simultaneous multiple subject positions created by capitalism - the devalued / invisible worker and the reified artist, both ever haunted by the deskilled consumer. The three same subject positions that exist everyday, albeit less acknowledged, in Access Gallery's neighborhood, Vancouver’s old Chinatown, as it undergoes its most recent episode of development.

at Access Gallery / Project Space storefronts
222 East Georgia, Vancouver BC
Saturday, April 27 to Friday, May 3, 2013
Launch: Saturday, April 27 / 7 to 9pm

Gaye Chan will be performing on site:
Saturday, April 27 / 1 to 5, 7 to 9
Sunday, April 28 / 2 to 5
Monday, April 29 / 4 to 7
Tuesday, April 30 / 1 to 4
Wednesday, May 1 / 4 to 7
Thursday, May 2 / 1 to 4
Friday, May 3 /  4 to 7

For more information, please visit:

www.gayechan.com/projects-gallery/sweat/sweat

accessgallery.ca/all/events/sweat/

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James Jack News!

James Jack News!

James Jack (alumnus) is an artist and contemporary art writer currently based in Tokyo, Japan.  His art works have appeared in magazines such as Asian Art News, M: The New York Art World and NY Arts.  Jack's writings focus on contemporary Japanese art and have recently been published on Tokyo Art Beat and “Requiem for the Sun: Art of Mono-ha” exhibition catalog as well as others.

His most recent essay, ENCOUNTERING PHOTOGRAPHS WITH QUESTION MARKS, a survey of the oeuvre of photographer Anzai Shigeo, has been featured in the March issue of modern art asia. 

 For more information, please visit:

http://www.jamesjack.org/index.html

http://modernartasia.com/category/issue-13-gutai/

Alexander Clinthorne News!

Alexander Clinthorne News!

Alexander Clinthorne (BFA alum) will be attending Montana State's MFA program in the upcoming fall, with ample financial support and as well as a Teaching Assistantship!

Photo attached is from a workshop that he taught at the Pahang Art Museum, Malaysia, with an artwork he executed on site, hanging above their heads.

He is currently in Japan as artist-in-residence at Biotop.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.artbiotop.jp/artbiotop 

http://alexanderclinthorne.wix.com/portfolio#!about/c786

Jaimey Hamilton Faris News!

Jaimey Hamilton Faris News!

Jaimey Hamilton Faris is an Assistant Professor, contemporary art critic, historian, and theorist. Her article Criticism Isn't Evil. It's Just Misunderstood. is featured on TheCultureBomb.com.

For more information and to read the article, please visit:

www.jaimeyhamilton.com

theculturebomb.com/Criticism-Isn-t-Evil-It-s-Just-Misunderstood 

Allison Bianco News!

Allison Bianco News

The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design has purchased Allison's newest work The Sinking of Matunuck for their collection!  Congratulations Allison!

For more information on the artist, and to see The Sinking of Matunuck, please visit:

www.allisonbianco.com

Megan Bent: Wanderlust

Megan Bent: Wanderlust

Congratulations to Megan Bent for her wonderful photographic installation, Wanderlust!
The exhibition will be on view from April 2 - 28, at Piedmont Council for the Arts at City Space, 100 5th St NE, Charlottesville, VA.

For more information about the artist, please visit:

megan-bent-photography.com/home

Gaye Chan / EATING IN PUBLIC

Gaye Chan / EATING IN PUBLIC News!

Gaye Chan's collaborative project EATING IN PUBLIC has recently been featured in articles on Shareable.net and TakePart.com!
EATING IN PUBLIC is also starting a new initiative called SHARE BAGS!  Made entirely with re-purposed material, SHARE BAGS are installed in 'private' and 'public' spaces for leaving or taking bags - for or from - strangers.  So far they have been installed near grocery stores and parks, in Honolulu and Vancouver, BC.

For more information, please visit:

www.gayechan.com

www.shareable.net/blog/eating-in-public-reclaiming-the-commons-with-the-anarchists-ethos

www.takepart.com/article/2013/02/16/seed-sharing-new-anarchy

Debra Drexler in ARTINFO!

Debra Drexler News!

Congrats to Debra Drexler, whose work is featured in an article on ARTINFO for the Fridge Art Fair.  The Fair will be held at Gallery Onetwentyeight, from May 9-12 as part of the New York International Art Fair Week. 

For more information, please visit:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/884721/fridge-fair-promises-chill-vibe-american-idol-finalist-for

Jacqueline Rush Lee: Compendium

Jacqueline Rush Lee: Compendium

Hawaii based sculptor, Jacqueline Rush Lee, will be presenting COMPENDIUM; a collection of book sculptures and installation that offer an alternative reflective library experience.
The installation will be on view at the new Manoa Public Library from March 27 - April 22, 2013.

Library Hours:
MON TUES SAT 10:00am – 5:00pm
WED THUR 12:00pm – 8pm
FRI 1:00 pm – 5:00pm 

For more information about the artist, please visit:

www.jacquelinerushlee.com