Society for Art and Critical Awareness
From March to June 2021, writer and scholar (and UNIT/PITT Board Member) Roxanne Panchasi presented a virtual free school focused on the Paris Commune of 1871. The course materials were initially delivered by e-newsletter, as 10 weeks of curated, open access readings that thematically mirrored the major events from 150 years before:
WEEK 1: Bienvenue/WelcomeWEEK 2: The Election of Paris CommuneWEEK 3:
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April 8, 12-1:30PSTZoom//FreeRegister by emailing register@unitpitt.ca
Join UNIT/PITT for a free, lunchtime discussion on cameras, documentation, and self-publishing with lens-based artists, Soloman Chiniquay and Louie Villanueva.
This event will be a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will not be visible, but they may submit questions and comments through the Chat function. Live Closed Captioning will be available through Rev
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ReIssue is an interdisciplinary art writing magazine focused on shaping and sustaining a contemporary west coast discourse rooted in critical engagement with experimental art practices.
ReIssue soft-launched at reissue.pub in 2021 thanks to the generous support of Vancouver Foundation’s Systems Change Grant, UNIT/PITT, and VIVO Media Arts Centre. ReIssue is an online magazine for art writing,
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I spy… a disposable camera project is a mail art program created by UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. Ten artists are each sent a disposable camera and a unique text prompt. They are instructed to photograph whatever they want, as long as one photograph responds to the prompt. UNIT/PITT chooses nine photographs from each
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On October 8, 2020, UNIT/PITT hosted a Zoom event for Lois Klassen’s artist book project, Reading The Migration Library, as part of Vancouver Art Book Fair’s Art Book Month. Hosted by Jairo Salazar, this event was a double book launch for Crista Dahl’s The Migrators and Carlos Colín’s Tierra Y Libertad / Little México, and
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From July 2018-September 2020, UNIT/PITT co-managed 8EAST (8 East Pender Street, Vancouver) with the New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW). U/P and NOW took over the space from Selectors’ Records (2015-2018) with the intention of continuing Selectors’ ethos of interdisciplinary collaboration between visual artists, musicians, writers and community members. U/P left the lease in September 2020,
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As UNIT/PITT’s inaugural Retail Residency, Agonyklub has curated an evening of readings for your mind’s eyes’ pleasure on Wednesday, February 19 at 8EAST (8 East Pender Street) from 7pm onward. FREE ADMISSION
Featuring:
KC Wei
Colin Osler
Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross
Nicole Kelly Westman
Music playlist by AK. Selections from the AK catalogue will also be available for sale (cash/credit card only).
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Tear It Down 2019 is an ephemeral group art exhibition on poster kiosks from November 2019 until January 2020. Participating artists were asked to create works in response to Vancouver’s unaffordability and housing precarity. The resulting posters address themes of access and accessibility; body and belonging; class and security.
Week 1 — Nov 29-Dec 6
@fucknovancouver
Week 2
Wrong Wave is an erratic festival hosted by UNIT/PITT celebrating the intersection of music, performance, visual art and publishing. Curated by NuZi Collective, the seventh instalment will feature the launch of a limited edition publication (Tue Nov 19), and a music showcase (Thu Nov 21) at 8EAST.
Tue Nov 19 | ZINE LAUNCH & ARTIST TALKS
Free
Works by Caitlin Chaisson, Juan Cisneros, Sharona Franklin, Heather Kai Smith, Splenda, and Temporary Investments will be appearing on poster kiosks around Vancouver from October 24 to December 15.
#tearitdown2018 is an art exhibition using poster kiosks instead of a gallery.
Street posters are covered up, torn down, and frequently disappear completely, just as the buildings of
Presented at the ECUAD Aboriginal Gathering Place
Second Floor
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
520 E 1 Ave., Vancouver BC
6pm – 9pm
Join us for the launch of “Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.” Speakers will consider the question:
HOW DOES EMPLOYMENT PRECARITY AFFECT OUR ART AND RESEARCH PRACTICES?
With:
* Deneige Nadeau, ECUAD
Saturday, October 6th 2018
8EAST (8 E Pender)
1pm-3pm
Join us on an autumn afternoon for a cloth reading. A cloth reading is a type of reading performance in which one is tasked to read a book out loud from cover to cover. For our purposes, the poet will read their nascent manuscript to a group of eager and invested ears,
Thursday, September 20, 8pm at 8EAST
Join us for the fourth installment of #postdildo #readingseries, featuring poets Maxine Gadd & Ted Rees.
MAXINE GADD is a Vancouver-based poet who lives and works in the Downtown Eastside. A graduate of the UBC English program in the early 1960s, Gadd has published numerous books, chapbooks, and little magazines including
KC Wei took a short respite from art rock? and is back to curate Wrong Wave no. 6. It starts Wed Oct 10, with the world premiere of KC’s art rock? The Popular Esoteric (2018), and Myles Black’s The Virga Soundtrack (2018) at VIVO Media Arts, followed by conversation with the directors.
The Virga Soundtrack is Myles
Doors at 8pm
Reading at 830pm
UNIT/PITT and 8EAST are pleased to host the third installment of #postdildo #readingseries, featuring poet Anahita Jamali Rad.
ANAHITA JAMALI RAD is currently based on Tio’tia:ke on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples. Her work explores materiality, history, affect, place, and displacement. She has published a few chapbooks, one full-length collection
At ACCESS Gallery
222 East Georgia Street
1pm – 4pm
refreshments and snacks provided
Limited space
RSVP EARLY to info@artsassembly.ca
COLLECTIVE RECKONING is a joint project between UNIT/PITT and ARTS ASSEMBLY in the wake of socially driven calls to address sexual harassment, violence and trauma that disproportionately impacts womxn identified and non-binary folks. Through a series of open forums, discussions and
Presented by UNIT/PITT at Access Gallery, 222 East Georgia Street
Friday, May 25, 7 – 10 pm (free admission)
Robert Dayton will present an interdisciplinary performance as himself and as The Canadian Romantic based around his artist’s book The Empty Bed published by Impulse [b]. Also on view will be drawings and copies of The Empty
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Symposium
23 March 2018, 10–5pm
FREE
Much has been made of aurality in recent years. This is due in part to the way attention to sonic experience appears to open new critical paths and modes of thought that are otherwise unavailable to ocular and logocentric forms of analysis and interpretation. However, an aurally-inflected take on the construction of
6pm onward
At Selectors’ Records, 8 East Pender Street, Vancouver BC
Participants:
Ajay Bhardwaj
Patricia Barkaskas
Stephen Collis
Hilda Fernandez
Samir Gandesha
Harjap Grewal
Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli
Am Johal
Presented by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University and UNIT/PITT
Time to wrap up our Free School with a free-ranging discussion of the spatio-temporal dimensions of contemporary authoritarian politics.
* What do we gain, and what do
(gallery closed Dec 17-Jan 3)
Opening Friday, November 17, 7pm
In Papa was a Garbage Man, Matthew Shields presents a monumental throne made of trash and other socially symptomatic debris collected from rubble heaps and alleys.
Surfaces of a mad montage materiality embed the sculptural object in a contemporary infinity of materials, the textures and aleatory chromatic