Germaine Koh: Artist Talk
Thursday, October 12, 2023 | 6:00 PM | FREE
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Please join us for an artist talk with Germaine Koh, who is a 2023-2024 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow at SFU, working with Urban Studies.
Don't miss Koh's WARES, which is on display in The Cabinet (outside GCA Room 4390) from September 15 – December 31, 2023, curated by Denise Oleksijczuk. More HERE ~
Biography
Germaine Koh is an artist and organizer whose work adapts familiar objects, everyday actions, and common spaces to create situations that look at the significance of communal experiences and the connections between people, technology, and natural systems. She is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts and for the 2023-24 academic year she is a Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University. She served as the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence in 2018-20 and as the 2021 Koerner Artist in Residence at the University of British Columbia, where she continues to teach sessionally. Koh’s ongoing projects include Home Made Home, an initiative to build and advocate for alternative forms of housing, and League, a participatory project using play as a form of creative practice.