Worlds Among Us
MFA Graduating Exhibition
September 5 – 21, 2024
Audain Gallery, Lobby, and Studio T
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 4, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Desire, yes, accounts for the loss and despair, but also the hope, the visions, the wisdom of lived lives and communities. Desire is involved with the not yet and, at times, the not anymore... Exponentially generative, engaged, engorged, desire is not more wanting but our informed seeking. Desire is both the part of us that hankers for the desired and at the same time the part that learns to desire. It is closely tied to, or may even be, our wisdom.
– Eve Tuck
There is another world, and it is this one.
– Paul Éluard
With Irfan Brkovich, Kevin Jesuino, Ghazal Majidi, Liz Oakley, Niloufar Samadi, and Taryn Walker.
Worlds Among Us presents the culmination of artistic research and creative practice by students graduating from the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts Program in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
This cohort of artists has found that, rather than arriving at answers, their respective inquiries have only provoked further questions. Through material and somatic explorations of received histories, inheritances, and societal structures, deeply emotive encounters in space, as well as playfully “improper” experiments with digital and analogue media and modes of display, the presented works invite considerations of the following:
Can a city be softened? Can sound be a paintbrush? Can a body be an archive? Can a film be felt? Can a cloud be held? Can pylons be a portal? Can a dream be played? Can longing be a landscape? Can what’s at hand become what’s possible? Can an impulse build a world?
EVENTS
Opening Reception
Wednesday, September 4, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Audain Gallery and Lobby, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Participatory Event: Kevin Jesuino – Tender City: The Silent Slow Dance Project
A Public Silent Slow Dance takes place:
September 4, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Public Silent Slow Dance (in Lobby during the opening)
September 5, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Public Silent Slow Dance (in Lobby)
September 6, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Public Silent Slow Dance (in Lobby)
September 7, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Public Silent Slow Dance (meet in Lobby, then move outdoors)
Lobby, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Performance: Irfan Brkovich – 0x2ė4
Thursday, September 5 & Friday, September 6, 2024, 6:30pm and 8:30pm
Studio T, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets: Pay What You Want ($0/$5/$10/$15/$20)
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Performance Activations: Liz Oakley, Ways to Move a Cloud
The sculpture will be animated for 10 minutes at the following times:
Thursday, September 5, 7:30 PM
Friday, September 6, 7:30 PM (with special guests)
Thursday, September 12, 12:30 PM & 3:00 PM
Thursday, September 19, 12:30 pm & 3:00 PM
Audain Gallery, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
The Puppet Vision Experience!
Saturday, September 14, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Audain Gallery, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Drop by the gallery to try on a pair of Puppet Vision glasses and go on a self-guided Puppet Vision tour!
Gene Draws You as a Cloud
Satuday, September 21, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Audain Gallery, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Drop by the gallery and have Gene draw your portrait as a cloud.
Closing Reception and Artist-led Exhibition Walkthrough
Saturday, September 21, 4:00 PM
Audain Gallery, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Please note: Justine A. Chambers and Tung Pang Lam, who are part of the 2024 MFA cohort, presented their MFA Graduating Projects, The Brutal Joy and Until the Mountain is Covered by the Snow, respectively, earlier and off-site.
The exhibition of a graduating project represents the culmination of a candidate’s studies, and is presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
Presented by the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU in partnership with SFU Galleries.
