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Arnaud Desjardin is a London-based artist and publisher currently doing a residency in Vancouver through the Emily Carr University Library and READ Books. In addition to an artist talk at Emily Carr, a reading group at READ Books, and a book launch at Satellite Gallery, his residency will include an exhibition at UNIT/PITT entitled Re:…

Join us this evening for the second instalment of the Spaces of Contestation: Art, Activism and the City series curated my Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte. Geoff Mann gave the first talk to kick off the series last month. Tonight, the series continues with Jamie Peck: Neoliberal urbanism — artful alternatives?  What does it mean to say that…

Last week was one of our busiest — the end of God Save The Queen, the beginning of Spaces of Contestation, and four nights of Wrong Wave 2013: Revenge of the New Puritan — so we’re taking a short break from public programming. We’re still around, even though the doors are closed. The next Pitt…

The final night of Wrong Wave has come. This year the festival closes with a show at SFU Woodward’s featuring performances by two Vancouver-based outfits, Kensington Gore and White Poppy. White Poppy is the experimental brainchild of Crystal Dorval, the British Columbian multimedia artist formerly performing under her first solo project, My Friend Wallis. With White Poppy, she…

Tonight is the third night of Wrong Wave, and one a lot of people have been looking forward to. On Thursday, the film Hail the New Puritan at Pacific Cinematheque served as a kind of keynote: dance by Michael Clark, costumes by Leigh Bowery, and music by The Fall combined to form a portrait of…