Why discuss the Burnaby Mountain protest?
Setting a precedence for Vancouver-based protest art and culture
Words by Brit Bachmann + visuals by Corie Waugh, Sheng Ho & Jakub Markiewicz While the opposition to corporate interests on Burnaby Mountain has been an ongoing struggle over the last decade and more, the demonstrations reached a pivotal presence last September when Kinder Morgan acted upon plans to conduct test drilling for an expansion […]
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 […]
Re: The Fox at UNIT/PITT Gallery
UNIT/PITT revisits and republishes 1970’s New York-based cultural theory journal The Fox in a book-based exhibition that struggles to engage with the book but strives towards wider forms of public engagement
Words and photography by Adam Stenhouse 1970’s New York was a particularly influential time for contemporary art discourse: The optimism of the 60’s had given way, crime and social disorder were serious issues, the US was in shock at the prolonged involvement with Vietnam, and the economy was stagnant. Yet from this morose time grew […]