Walk: Through a Window: RAIN OR SHINE SATURDAYS
Saturday, July 11 2015, 1 - 2:30pm
Audain Gallery, Vancouver
Soundwalk with Jennifer Schine and Russell Wallace
This is the first of a series of three soundwalks connecting SFU Galleries' Through A Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015's exhibition to the development of soundwork and impact of the World Soundscape Project at SFU. This walk will focus on active listening and activated memory around SFU's downtown campus and Hastings Street.
Jenni Schine is an artist, ethnographer and award-winning researcher whose work explores the aural and oral heritage of BC's coastal communities. She completed her graduate work at the School of Communication at SFU in 2013.
Russell Wallace is a multi-award nominated composer, music producer and a traditional Lil'wat singer. His music and production work have been part of a number of film, video and television soundtracks, as well as theatre/ dance projects. He is also an educator, working at the Native Education College and the Office for Aboriginal Peoples at SFU.
This program is curated by Denise Ryner, SFU Galleries Curatorial Assistant and Intern.
Through a Window:
RAIN OR SHINE SATURDAYS #2
Saturday, September 26 2015, 1 - 2:30pm
SFU Gallery, Burnaby
Soundwalk with Brady Ciel Marks and Alex Muir
This is the second of a series of three soundwalks connecting SFU Galleries' Through A Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015 exhibition to the development of soundwork and impact of the World Soundscape Project at SFU.
Alex Muir and Brady Ciel Marks will lead a guided soundwalk around SFU Burnaby's modernist campus, designed by Arthur Erickson.
This program is curated by Denise Ryner, SFU Galleries Curatorial Intern.
Through a Window:
RAIN OR SHINE SATURDAYS #3
Saturday, October 3 2015, 1 - 3pm
SFU Gallery, Burnaby
Mobile presentation and soundwalk with archaeologist Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn, activist Carleen Thomas, and artist/composer
Gabriel Saloman
The last iteration of a series three soundwalks connecting SFU Galleries' Through A Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015 exhibition to the development of soundwork and the World Soundscape Project at SFU. This walk will encompass sound, site and narrative in a consideration of the intersecting histories that define the SFU campus and the area around Burnaby Mountain.
The three walk guides will facilitate a public walk looking at a "People's History" of the fraught relationship between Burnaby Mountain and the petroleum industry.
Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn is Piikani, born and raised on the Peigan Reserve (now known as the Piikani First Nation) in Alberta, and grew up speaking Blackfoot and English. He is a faculty member at Simon Fraser University where he teaches archaeology and First Nations studies. His research interests include palaeoIndian research, communal hunting and northern plains archaeology, archaeoastronomy and the emerging field of indigenous archaeology.
Carleen Thomas has served multiple terms as an elected member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN) governing Council. She has represented the TWN on various advisory bodies related to education, policing and health, including the aboriginal advisory boards of North Vancouver School District #44, Capilano University, and Simon Fraser University. She is a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust Initiative – their official opposition to Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.
Gabriel Saloman is a musician, composer and artist. Since 2003 he has collaborated with Red 76 on such projects such as "Fellow Travellers" for Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain; "Surplus Seminar" at the Walker Art Center; and "Counter-culture as Pedagogy" for CCA's Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art. Saloman received an MFA at Simon Fraser University in 2012. In 2014, Saloman and Burnaby Residents Opposed to Kinder Morgan's Pipeline Expansion (BROKE) led a series of workshops designed to support public discourse around the effects of the pipeline system and its proposed expansion on Burnaby Mountain.
This program is curated by Denise Ryner, SFU Galleries Curatorial Intern.
For more information on the exhibition, click here.