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Harbour/Haven – thirstDays No. 03

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Thursday, April 28, 2016
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Friday, April 29, 2016
7:30pm
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love, intimacy and (com)passion, in a geopolitical context
A monthly series of video, film, performance and ceremony events
Project curator/artist-in-residence Jayce Salloum

Harbour/Haven

Curated by Denise Ryner + Tonel
Featuring/works by the aka collective: Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, Sarah Shamash + Osvaldo Ramírez Castillo, Pia Massie, Retazos, Alessandra Santos + Steve DiPaola, Josema Zamorano + Eleanor Hendriks + Manuel Piña-Baldoquíns

At: VIVO Media Arts Centre
2625 Kaslo Street, Vancouver
(near Broadway, walking distance from Renfrew Skytrain Station)
Free admission or stream it live
at thirstDays.vivomediaarts.com

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Consider home, landing, returning, encounters and strandings that can be encompassed in the idea of a coastal haven. This video, poetry and performance program explores notions of shelter, arrival, departure, convergence and contact here on Xwmetskwíyem/xʷməθkʷey̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh/sqʷx̌ʷoʔməx, Selíl̓witulh/səíl̓wətaʔł land. The hybrid geography of the harbour, is mirrored in the multiple – Indigenous, settler, immigrant – identities and cultural forces that intersect, align or conflict in this space.
#thirstDays #VIVOMediaArts

Upcoming programs curated by Irwin Oostindie + Ronnie Dean Harris, David Khang + Phanuel Antwi, Urban Subjects, Ali Lohan + Juan Sepulveda, Raymond Boisjoly + Jordan Wilson, Ayumi Goto + Tannis Monkman Nielsen, Dima Alansari + Cathy Busby, Henry Tsang + Diyan Achjadi, Elisa Ferrari + Stacey Ho. Past programs curated by T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss + Aaron Rice, Ashok Mathur + Jeneen Frei Njootli.  Writer in residence: Tarah Hogue.

Image: Still from More Home Some by Pia Massie (video, 1991). Image courtesy of artist.

Venue Accessibility

VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.

Wheelchair/Walker Access

A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.

Washrooms

There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.

To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.

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Denise Ryner is director/curator at Or Gallery, Vancouver, and is a research fellow at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Her curatorial, research and writing interests include place-as-agent in exhibition-making and the cultural production of transnational counterflows of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel) (b. Havana, 1958) Tonel is an independent artist, art critic and curator. He graduated in Art History from the University of Havana in 1982. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA, in 2001, and was a visiting artist/lecturer at the Center for Latin American Studies and at the Department of Art and Art History in Stanford University, California, USA, from 2001 to 2003. His articles and essays on Cuban and Latin American contemporary art have been published regularly in catalogues, magazines and books in Cuba and abroad. His works have been collected by the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; the Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany; the Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands; the Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; the Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; the Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA; the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA; and the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, among other institutions. Tonel is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities (1997-98) with residency at The University of Texas, Austin, and a John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for painting and installation art (1995). He was awarded the prize for art criticism by the Cuban Section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA) in 1988. In 2003 he received the Cuban Artists Fund Award (Cuban Artists Fund, New York, USA). He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, where he focuses in his own practice as a visual artist and writer, and teaches drawing and painting at the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.

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Jayce Salloum is a Vancouver-based photographer and video artist known for installation works that sensitively investigate historical, social and cultural contexts of place. The grandson of Lebanese immigrants, Salloum studied in the United States and began his artistic career in 1975. The central themes played out in his work include questions of exile, ethnic representation and notions of identity. In 2014, Salloum won a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. https://twitter.com/JayceSalloum

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