Rearranging Desires: Curating the ‘Other' Within


Chih-Chien Wang

http://rearrangingdesires.concordia.ca/

Exhibition: October 6 – 31, 2008
Vernissage : October 17, 6-8pm
Fashion show of artist Mary Sui Yee Wong's Yellow Apparel, modelled and performed by Choeur Maha directed by Kathy Kennedy will take place during the opening

Rearranging Desires focuses on the presentation, reading and interpretation of culturally-specific work in a postcolonial context through the exhibition of art installations by four Montreal-based Asian-Canadian artists – Ayesha Hameed, Karen Tam, Chih-Chien Wang and Mary Sui Yee Wong. Organized by guest curator, Alice Ming Wai Jim, with art history graduate students, the Rearranging Desires project is accompanied by a symposium, a special music event, catalogue publication, and website with artist interviews and critical essays.

Chinese Version: Click here

Symposium: Rearranging Desires: About Culturally-Specific Work

Date: October 18, 2008, 9:45am-6:00pm
Keynote: Jamelie Hassan, award-winning visual artist and curator based in London, Ontario
Location: York Auditorium, EV-1.605, Concordia University, 1515 Ste-Catherine St., W.

Bringing together over twenty scholars, educators, activists, writers and artists from different disciplines, the one-day symposium seeks to address the broad range of concerns about culturally-specific work in North America and the specific issues affecting the context of this particular project being presented in Québec.

The program opens with the 2008 Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture by award-winning visual artist and independent curator, Jamelie Hassan, as the keynote address for the symposium. This will be followed by panel discussions on questioning cultural authenticity and difference in the classroom, and an artist roundtable.

For symposium program, please click here.

Special Music Event: SPEAK OUT!

Performances by: hip hop artist Tu Three (23) and his DJ and punk band Without Will Date: October 26, 8pm, United Nations Day Weekend
Location: Le Caigibi, 5490 boul. St-Laurent (corner St-Viateur, Bus 55)
For more info, please contact: amberberson@yahoo.ca

Initiated and presented by art history graduate students, this fun and provocative night of socially-engaged music performances by hip hop artist Tu Three (23) and his DJ and punk band Without Will has been organized to promote community discussion about issues of cultural tolerance in Quebec in acknowledgment of the one-year anniversary of the beginnings of the Reasonable Accommodation hearings.

All events are free and open to the public.

The Rearranging Desires project is made possible by the generous support of The Power Corporation of Canada; Diane and Salvatore Guerrera and family; The Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, the Department of Art History and the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University; the Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Fund; QPIRG; Canada Council for the Arts; and other partners.

Rearranging Desires is presented concurrently with the exhibition in the FOFA Gallery vitrine, Crossing Cultures: Images of Norman Bethune in China, curated by Dr. Catherine Mackenzie, and the symposium Norman Bethune and Visual Culture(s), as part of the City of Montreal’s Hommage à Norman Bethune.

For more information, please email Alice Ming Wai Jim, ajim@alcor.concordia.ca