ISSUE Mag Launch and Vancouver Art/Book Fair Bring the Crowds to UNIT/PITT
Third issue coincides with The Monochrome Shop's last week of exhibition
Photography by Andi Icaza-Largaespada For their third issue launch, ISSUE mag combines forces with the Vancouver Art/Book Fair preview after party at UNIT/PITT. VANDOCUMENT’s photographer Andi Icaza-Largaespada hung out at the launch for two hours. UNIT/PITT was kept busy all night as crowds of people, from gallery goers to VA/BF previewers came and went. From […]
Creating A Holistic Homefront
Carrie MacLeod leads an SFU audience through 'human choreography'
Written by Brit Bachmann + Photography by Alisha Weng “I ask us to listen with our whole bodies.” This is how Carrie MacLeod opened her lecture performance at SFU Woodwards. While the audience was bathing in a warm amber glow in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, anxiously awaiting to hear her views, MacLeod had already plotted […]
Ben Brown: Improvising His Way to Clarity
Interview by Mark Jacobs Photos by Harley Spade Vancouver-based drummer and composer Ben Brown has enjoyed an impressive career as an in-demand session musician and as the driving beat behind Pugs and Crows, with whom he won the 2010 Galaxie Rising Star Award for Best New Group and the 2013 JUNO Award for Instrumental Album […]
Retro Vancouver
How Our City Needs to Progress in the 21st Century
Written by Justin Ramsey Photography by Harley Spade For much of Vancouver’s history, the Downtown Eastside was the economic hub of the city. Rooted amidst the bustle of boutiques, hotels, and parlours was the Woodward’s department store, a six-storey shopping mecca that drew Vancouverites from all over the city. This version of the Downtown Eastside […]
Lossless
SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery
Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk Text from exhibition pdf Lossless is an exhibition featuring graduating projects by MFA candidates at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Video, sculpture, performance and installation projects by this year’s graduates share a number of related concerns, while formulating distinct frameworks for individual investigation. Deborah Edmeades’ video work and […]
My Cowbojsky Boty
Or, "How to Own it When You Don't Own It."
Writing by Barbara Adler Illustrations by Brit Bachmann Photography by Barbara Adler and Ash Tanasiychuk Videos by Ash Tanasiychuk “A cowboy without a horse just wants to get to where they’re going.” This summer, I picked up that piece of cowboy philosophy by wandering – horseless — through the Czech countryside in a pair of […]
To Move In or Form a SWARM
Vancouver's annual 2-night festival of artist run centres kicks off it's 15th year
Photography by Ash Tanasiychuk Text pulled from SWARM 15 site, plus event pages SWARM is a 2-night event that marks the launch of Vancouver’s artist-run centre (ARC) programming season with exhibition openings, performances, screenings and special events. Artist-run Centres (ARCs) are collectives and non-profit organizations, run by artists, supporting new and innovative practices in the […]
A Look Back: New Forms Fest 13
In honour of the kickoff of the new edition of New Forms Festival – always highly innovative and entirely unique – we look back at NFF13, which engaged 4 days & nights 7 venues over 20 artists film + sound + installation + talks + much more Photos by Leslie Kennah + Alan Derksen + […]
Vancouver Imagined Drawing Night
Vancouver Urban Sketcher teams up with Draw By Night for a special evening of illustrating and drawing into question the built environment around us
Photography by Annie Briard Two of Vancouver’s drawing orgs teamed up to present a one-night drawing event at MOV. Called “Vancouver Imagined: The Way We Weren’t,” the evening asked illustrators (guests of all skill levels) to question the built environment around us. Guest curated by Jason Vanderhill of Illustrated Vancouver, the event “showcases the work […]
#GVEAFUKPOPUP @ thisopenspace
friendly artists, a pretty venue, & strong, engaging work.
Photography by Sarah Faye Bernstein As a Gastown resident, I’ve always wondered about the space formerly known as the Chinatown Experiment, currently being rebranded to thisopenspace. I’m so happy I brought myself there! It’s a beautifully lit and welcoming venue. I went on Saturday, September 6th to check out work by Celine Simpson, Andrew Briggs, […]