SCA | Quick News | December 18, 2020
Congratulations, Henry!
The SCA's Henry Daniel won the Distinguished Researcher Award at the 2020 Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology's Research Excellence Awards, which were held virtually on December 9. Congratulations to Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, Cait McKinney, and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, as well, who also won awards. Read more HERE. We've also posted Henry's remarks on our Vimeo page HERE.
Sappier gets seasonal with Bern
SCA alumni Carr Sappier – who's also co-teaching the upcoming Skoden Indigenous Film Festival course with Kathleen Mullen for us in the 2021 Spring term (CA 389 (D100): Selected Topics in the Fine and Performing Arts – register for it!) – made a seasonal video for their friend Mike Bern. Watch it HERE.
O'Callaghan's «In»
Listen to SCA alumni James O'Callaghan's "new acousmatic piece «In»," as part of Musica Nova's YouTube playlist of 2020 "international competition of electro-acoustic music" finalists. Listen to it HERE.
Albert's Winter session
SCA alumni Laura June Albert has opened registration for her Winter session of "Body Positive Online Dance Classes, designed for small spaces!." Read more HERE.
Slade's Hit List
Read the SCA's Kathy Slade's 'hit list' for Akimbo. Read it HERE.
Kitsos Q&A about BLOOM
Here's a Q&A with the SCA's Rob Kitsos about his 2020 residency project BLOOM for Mascall Dance, realized at home with his teen-aged kids Gabriel and Beatrice. Read it HERE.
Kong and co.'s top picks
The SCA's Yani Kong and the other Akimbo critics sound off on their top picks for the year in art. Read it HERE.
Rezwan in tba
SCA alumni Mohammad Zaki Rezwan has an essay, A Space of One’s Own: Spatial Experience of Playing with Fire, in Vol 2 No 1 (2020): SPLINTER of tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, organized by graduate students in the Department of Visual Arts & ArtLab Gallery at Western University in London, Ontario. Read it HERE.
Smith on Where do we go from here?
Here's Janet Smith for Stir Vancouver on the new exhibition Where do we go from here?, featuring SCA alumni Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Cindy Mochizuki, and Charlene Vickers, on now at the Vancouver Art Gallery until May 30, 2021. Read it HERE.
Vines 2021 call
The Vines Art Festival, with SCA alumni Heather Lamoureux (Artistic Director), Jesse Del Fierro (Youth Program Coordinator), Ivan So (Graphic Designer) on staff, has opened applications for 2021. Read more HERE.
Puzzlehead in 360º
Behold! Watch the full interactive 360º video SCA MFA student Katayoon Yousefbigloo – aka Puzzlehead – made with support from a Digital Originals "micro innovation grant" from the Canada Council for the Arts, and presented by VIVO Media Arts Centre. Watch it HERE.
Theatre Replacement Q&A about Panto Come Home!
Here's a Q&A with SCA alumni James Long and Maiko Yamamoto of Theatre Replacement about Panto Come Home!, live-streaming from the York Theatre from December 17 – 27, 20202, and presented by The Cultch. Read it HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi's One-Page Score
Watch SCA alumni Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi's take on the score by Emily Carr students Bryan He, Emily Herrenstein, Matthew Jones, and Tomi Woodard, for Vancouver New Music's One-Page Score Project series. Watch it HERE.
Lim and Blenkarn with Mammalian Diving Reflex
SCA alumni duo Milton Lim and Patrick Blenkarn (Culturecapital) will be working with Mammalian Diving Reflex in 2021, thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts' Digital Strategy Fund. Read more about Culturecapital HERE.
Friesen at Austin
SCA alumni Suzanne Friesen's film Tu is showing as part of the Austin Arthouse Film Festival, which runs December 26 – 31, 2020. Read more HERE.
Carter on the BIG screen
Go see SCA alumni Shion Skye Carter on the big screen at Granville and Robson Streets in downtown Vancouver, which is showing Flow Tide, a short film Shion realized in collaboration with Japanese calligrapher Kisyuu. It's running until January 3, 2021, as part of the City of Vancouver's public art programming. Watch an excerpt HERE.
Fluxus "crash course" includes Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Take this Fluxus "crash course" from Noam Bierstone and the NO HAY BANDA folks, with a contribution by SCA alumni Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi. Read more HERE.
Q&A with Nass about Be-Longing
Here's a Q&A in with SCA alumni and frank theatre company Artistic Director Fay Nass about Be-Longing: A Collaborative, Digital, Musical Performance, which was co-created by Nass, Meghna Haldar, and SCA alumni Sammy Chien, and presented in partnership with Chimerik 似不像. Read it HERE.
strauss in Jingle All The Gay!
SCA MFA alumni ilvs strauss is part of this holiday show, Jingle All The Gay! A Very Virtual Queerantine Christmas (with two puns in the title!), running online until January 2, 2021. Read more HERE.
Q&A with Murdoch about The Best Place I Ever Lived
Here's a Q&A in Stir Vancouver with SCA alumni and Theatre Replacement managing producer Corbin Murdoch, discussing housing, Vancouver, being a working artist, and his new tune and video The Best Place I Ever Lived. Read it HERE.
Eigenfeldt at the 2020 Generative Art
The SCA's Arne Eigenfeldt presented virtually at the 2020 Generative Art conference, which was to take place in Milan, Italy. All of the works for the event are presented in an online 3D gallery, including the "generative video" by Arne, which includes his collaborator Kathryn Ricketts. Check it out HERE.
Rostad's Goodnight Goodnight wins
SCA alumni Mackenzie Reid Rostad's documentary film Goodnight Goodnight won for Best National Short or Medium-Length Film at the 2020 Montreal International Documentary Festival. Congratulations, Mackenzie! Read more HERE.
Priest in The Zone
The SCA's Eldritch Priest took a stroll through The Zone at Chernobyl. Read all about it in the AM Journal of Art and Media Studies HERE.