SCA | Quick News | June 11, 2021
Hill in Frieze – and withdraws
Read a good review in Frieze for SCA alumni Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill's exhibition, Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, which runs until August 15, 2021. Read it HERE. Hill has also recently withdrawn from a “Family Art Talk” for the MoMA and a planned submission to the gallery’s Magazine in a show of support for the ongoing weekly Strike MoMA protests, which are directed at controversial MoMA board members, like Leon Black, and trustees, like Paula and James Crown, who are connected to the weapons manufacturer General Dynamics, a supplier of arms to the Israeli army. In a letter announcing her decision, Hill notes that she realizes that she is "in a contradictory position” because of her current exhibition and other MoMA related activities, and therefore “benefiting personally from the money brought in by the board." Nevertheless, she still wishes "to align myself with those who struggle to abolish the prison industry, the carceral justice system, resource extraction which benefits the richest while costing the lives and the lands of Indigenous people and poor people across the world, the apartheid system of Israel, arms dealing, corruption and white supremacy.” More HERE.
Lauzon on drones
Congratulations to the SCA's Claudette Lauzon, who has contributed "Stranger things: A techno-bestiary of drones in art and war" to the book Drone imaginaries: The power of remote vision, edited by Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer, which was newly released by Manchester University Press. More HERE.
Pauly on TPE Interactive
Great press in Stir Vancouver about the SCA's Mauricio Pauly and the work he's presenting as part of Turning Point Ensemble's TPE Interactive concert, which streams starting tonight, June 11, 2021, at 7:30 PM. Read it HERE.
Calderon & Anjela Magpantay in Deep Fried
Upcoming: Deep Fried: A Pinoy Musical! Workshop Presentation & Talk on June 18, 2021, at 7:00 PM (PST) via YouTube Live, which includes SCA alumni Davey Samuel Calderon and Anjela Magpantay as part of the development team, along with Peter Abando, Kim Villagante (aka Kimmortal), and CE Gatchalian. More info and tickets HERE.
Vickers at Macaulay & Co.
SCA alumni Charlene Vickers is having an opening for an exhibition with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Letslo:tseitun on Saturday, June 12, from 1:00 – 4:00 PM, at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. More HERE.
Clarke at ArtStarts
Great news! SCA MFA student Emily Clarke is newly part of 'the team' at ArtStarts in Schools! Congratulations, Emily! And good choice, ArtStarts! More HERE.
Laiwan in Rivers Have Mouths
SCA alumni Laiwan (朱麗雲) is presenting How Water Remembers at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, as part of the exhibition Rivers Have Mouths – Indigenous and Chinese Canadian Art Exchange, running June 12 – September 12, 2021, which also includes Kelly Cannell (ʔəy̓xʷatəna:t), Angela George (qʷənat), Rick Harry (Xwalacktun), Sarah Ling (凌慧意), Cease Wyss (T’uy’t’tanat), and Lam Wong (王藝林). More HERE.
On Light Hours
Read an interesting conversation with Canadian artist and publisher Ho Tam, who is presenting the exhibition Light Hours (June 12 – August 29, 2021), which includes SCA alumni Joni Cheung, at his Hotam Press Bookshop & Gallery. Read it HERE. Also, Cheung and the other artists in the exhibition will be participating in a FREE online conversation on Saturday, June 19, 2021, at 7:00 PM (PDT), sponsored and organized by UBC's Hong Kong Studies Initiative. RSVP HERE.
Clara in RA
Good review for SCA alumni Scott Morgan's new album, Clara, as Loscil, in Resident Advisor. Read it HERE.
Neustaedter introduces FCAT
Watch Carman Neustaedter, Dean of the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, our institutional home base at SFU, give a rolling (you'll see what we mean!) introduction to the five schools and programs – School of Communication, School of Interactive Arts + Technology, SFU Publishing, Centre for Digital Media, and us – that together make up the unique, dynamic, and creative faculty we call FCAT. Watch it HERE.
Made in Canada E8
Here's the latest episode of rice & beans theatre's Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast. Listen HERE.
Lamoureux and the Ageless Dancers
SCA alumni and artistic director of Vines Art Festival Heather Lamoureux shared this video, filmed by SCA alumni Lara Amelie Abadir, of the Ageless Dancers, in tribute of her last session with them as facilitator. Watch it HERE.
Sound's Lost
See excerpts from SCA alumni Michelle Sound's Lost project on her Instagram account, described as "An exploration in how Indigenous children see themselves reflected in books, or not," which Sound created for the SCA BFA show in 2003. See them HERE.
Bruton & Hammond at Sunnysides
Presented by New Works Calgary and containR, SCA alumni Rebecca Bruton (in Sunnyside, Calgary, Alberta) and Julie Hammond (in Sunnyside, Portland, Oregon) will be presenting Sunnyside By Side – "an evening soundwalk of simultaneous and speculative listening to the place we are and the place we aren’t" – on June 17, 2021. More HERE.
Sound walk with Kujala
Go for a self-guided sound walk with SCA alumni Jorma Kujala, presented by Vancouver New Music. More HERE.
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open for National Indigenous Peoples Day
To celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day (Monday, June 21), the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Museum of Vancouver have teamed up to present the Who We Are film series, curated by Rylan Friday, Jasmine Wilson, and Sharon Fortney, which includes the multiple award-winning film The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and SCA alumni Kathleen Hepburn. More HERE.
Kong on Vancouver Special
Read the SCA's Yani Kong in Galleries West on Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo, which includes work by SCA MFA student Katie Kozak, at the Vancouver Art Gallery until January 2, 2022. Read it HERE.
Perkins Deneault on CAMP's Wanted
Tessa Perkins Deneault (from the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology), reviewed Wanted by CAMP, which included SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist and music by SCA alumni Stefan Nazarevich, for The Dance Current. Read it HERE.
SCA in Hive's Flight Paths
There's considerable SCA representation in the collection of in the HIVE Performance Collective's HIVE 2021: Flight Paths series. including Re:Current Theatre's The Marker of Nothing (Brian Postalian, Meagan Woods, and Stefan Nazarevich), Tributaries (Howard Dai and Pedro Chamale), Follow Me (Jessica Hood and Rachelle Miguel), and Please Hold (Aliya Griffin, Caroline Sniatynski, Manuela Sosa), as well as Christian Ching (Assistant Technical Director) and Kayleigh Sandomirsky (Production Manager) behind the scenes. Design your "flight path" HERE.
Lim talks Beyond Panels
SCA alumni Milton Lim is participating in Arts Club Theatre Company's next "In Conversation" event, Beyond Panels: The Radical BIPOC Creators Changing the Face of Canadian Theatre, on June 15, 2021, at 5:00 PM. RSVP HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi for WasteLAnd
SCA alumni Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi is presenting The Starts and Stops and Layers of Time (a WasteLAnd commission) at WasteLAnd Music's L'Acqua Non Ricorda, this Saturday, June 12, 2021, at 7:00 PM. Also on the bill is Silvia Cignoli, whose work L'Acqua Non Ricorda (a WasteLAnd commission) gives the bill it's name. More HERE.
withintensions calling for Collaborate
withintensions, the art mag run by SCA alumni, is calling for submissions for their next issue on the theme of "Collaborate." More HERE.
Watch some McMann
Watch one of the videos SCA alumni Jessica McMann presented as part of her recent record launch for Incandescent Tales. Watch it HERE.
Liu for Mother: Sound/ Body
SCA MFA student Giselle Liu has choreographed a work for Mother: Sound/ Body, streaming June 15, 2021, presented by Method Dance Society. RSVP HERE.
Sum in the Songs of Summer
SCA alumni Amanda Sum will be performing as part of Gateway Theatre’s Songs of Summer: Outdoor Concert Series. More HERE.
Arts Embodiment does corporate
Does your organization need some Arts Embodiment? Give SCA alumni Ghinwa Yassine a call! More HERE.