Louise Noguchi: Eyes Locked: Hunter and Prey

This event is co-presented by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and SFU's David Lam Centre.

For over forty years, Louise Noguchi has been inspired by the contradictions of identity, employing humor, shock, and subtle intellect manifested in a multiplicity of media: sculpture, the moving image, photography, text, drawing and performance art. In Noguchi’s own words, her “work is a battleground of opposites. The artist as hunter and prey simultaneously.”

In conversation with Moving Image artist, Midi Onodera, Noguchi discussed the context of artmaking in Canada from the early 80s to the present, the politics of identity and how she tracks cultural markers in her work. Noguchi began her art career at a time when there were only a handful of practicing Japanese Canadian artists, feminism was starting to infiltrate patriarchal structures and post-modernist practices were paving the way for contemporary art of the 21st century. This discussion will be followed by a Q & A and on Saturday Oct. 26, Noguchi will be conducting studio visits with a selection of artists.

Louise Noguchi’s talk is part of the pilot program, The Japanese Canadian Legacy Artists Talk Series presented by the Asian Canadian Studies Society. We gratefully acknowledge the support and financial assistance from the City of Vancouver’s Communities and Artists Shifting Cultures Grant, Simon Fraser University’s David Lam Centre, and Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.