THE SCENE
TORONTO
HALIFAX
VANCOUVER
MONTRÉAL
WINNIPEG
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THE
PANEL
BARBARA FISCHER
JAYNE WARK
GRANT ARNOLD
MARC
MAYER
SHAWNA DEMPSEY
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2–5 PM
This panel features prominent members from artistic
communities across Canada, and considers the social, economic
and cultural conditions that underwrite the emergence of new
and influential artistic phenomena in different places. Panelists
will reflect on the origins, viability and prospects of their
respective milieus, and speak to broader themes including
sub-cultural trends, national, regional, cultural particularism
and the leveling effects of the art market (and its discursive/promotional
machinery).
• What are the socio-economic prerequisites
necessary to the development
of a scene?
• Is celebrity culture a necessary
evil, an inevitable consequence of, or
an essential precondition?
• What role do cultural and civic
institutions play?
• How does patronage; both public
and private, shape artistic production?
• What is the relationship between
a scene and the canon?
Barbara Fischer
Toronto
Barbara Fischer is currently the Director of the Justine M.
Barnicke Gallery at Hart House (University of Toronto). Since
1983, she has held numerous curatorial positions including:
Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery (1999–2005); Curator
of Contemporary Art at The Power Plant Art Gallery in Toronto
(1988–1990); Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario
(1985–1988) and Assistant Curator at the Walter Phillips Gallery
at the Banff Centre for the Arts (1983–1985). Fischer has
lectured on contemporary art theory, museology and art criticism
at the University of Western Ontario and the Ontario College
of Art and Design, and has written for numerous exhibition
catalogues and publications..
Grant Arnold
Vancouver
Grant Arnold is Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at
the Vancouver Art Gallery. Over the past two decades he has
organized more than thirty exhibitions of historical, modern
and contemporary art. Recent curatorial projects include:
Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation
(2004), and Rodney Graham: A Little Thought (jointly
organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles and the VAG, 2005).
Marc Mayer
Montréal
Marc Mayer has been the Directeur general of the Musée d’art
contemporain de Montréal since June 2004. Important solo exhibitions
he has curated include: the Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective
and Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party (both at the Brooklyn
Museum), where he was involved in establishing the Elizabeth
A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art which accompanied the gift
of Judy Chicago’s work. At the Powerplant (Toronto) he curated
Kim Adams, Shirley Wiitasalo, Jessica Stockholder and Christine
Davis among others. Mr. Mayer plays a dynamic role in the
Montréal art community.
Shawna Dempsey
Winnipeg
Shawna Dempsey has been collaborating with Lorri Millan on
performances, films, videos, publications and public art projects
since 1989. Their provocative, humourous, feminist performances
have been presented around the world. We’re Talking Vulva
(music video), represented Canada at the 3rd Istanbul Biennial,
and has screened to an estimated audience of a million people,
world-wide. Dempsey is currently an adjunct Curator or Contemporary
Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Jayne Wark
Halifax
Jayne is the Associate Professor of Art History at N.S.C.A.D.
University in Halifax, and Chair of the Historical and Critical
Studies Division. Her doctoral research on the history of
feminist performance in North America will be published under
the title “Radical Gestures,” by McGill-Queen’s University
Press in the fall of 2006. Current research includes a comprehensive
study of Conceptual art in Canada.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 9 PM–1 AM
Obviously, this will be an extremely happening place...
With foreign glitterati, art performances, music and dancing,
this intoxicating affair promises to reinforce the AGA’s reputation
as the place to think just as critically as the Art Bar
was the place to drink.
Panel is $10 Non-Members
$8 AGA Members and Students
Party is $10 for everyone
Purchase tickets for both events in advance for the reduced
price of
$20 | $15 Members and Students
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