Panatom Party 2009

Almost done and almost ready for Friday Dec. 5, 2008!

Reskilling Opens November 28. Perspectives on an Archive opens with screenings on Nov 26, Dec 3 and Dec 10.

Qompendium
Time Capsule Series
featuring Manystuff

With Damien Arnaud, Michael Bader , Alex Bec, Ryan Corey, Wayne Daly / Eleanor Duffin, Caroline Dath, Chris Devenport, Yoann Dovier, Mattis Dovier, Ed Fella, Dieter Glauser, Piero Glina, Hannes Gloor, Stefan Jandl, Günter Eden / Roman Breier Grafisches Büro, Guillaume Grall, Wyeth Hansen, Owen Hoskins, Abi Huyah, Jin Jung, Sarah Kahn, Mahawa Kandé, E. Roon Kang, Simon Lagneaux, Olivier Lebrun, Julien Lelièvre, Benoit Lemoine, Nicole Martens, Hanneke Minten, Eivind Molvaer, Jarrik Muller, Marco Müller, Christof Nardin, Martin Nicolausson, Serifan Ozcan, Stéphane Perroud, Adriaan Mellegers / Alfons Hooikaas Planet Earth, Serje Rompza, Anne Schaufeli, Chris Sherron, Mark Simmonds, Ben Smith, David Stettler, Antoine Stevenot, Karen v.d. Kraats, Noah Venezia, Christian Walden , Jessica Williams , Thomas Wismeier, Takeshi Hamada, Per Zennström

5 Dec 2008 - 5 Jan 2009
Berlin

Phew, three months after leaving my last apartment in Vancouver, I am finally settling in to a new one in Berlin (and given the style of apartment, it might as well be in Vancouver). Things to update, but no time…

The F Word opens Friday Oct 17, 8pm with a panel discussion on Saturday Oct 18, 1pm. www.front.bc.ca

For the one rare long weekend granted this summer, I was fortunate enough to find some friends that agreed to an impromptu road trip/much needed escape to Utah. We covered 3689km and five states (and one province) in four days from BC - WA - OR - ID - NV - UT and back. The salt flats are incredible, in particular such utter silence you could hear your ears ringing.

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Invite & vinyl lettering for Western Front. Typeface: “Klimax” by Ondrej Job.

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Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler
June 7 - July 11, 2008

Curated by Juan A. Gaitán

Abbas Akhavan, Arabella Campbell, Antonia Hirsch, Paul Kajander, Sarah Mameni, Ron Tran

Curated by Juan Gaitan

The title comes from a text from 1970 by Dore Ashton, art critic of the abstract expressionist moment and vehement opponent of minimalist and conceptualist practices. In her view, aesthetic criteria were abandoned as a result of these practices that succeeded the painterly abstraction of the 1950s. Today the skeletal aesthetics of minimalism and conceptual art provide the most prevalent source of art historical references that appear in contemporary art. But this referencing is a far cry from the modernist belief in an aesthetic program, and can be seen as polemically built into the works of art exhibited. One could say that the aesthetic and the subject matter are problems with a-parallel trajectories that are brought together in the artwork in order to illuminate each other. This exhibition explores this dual dialogue in which a range of subject matters (social, political, etc.) are inflected with art historical archetypes.