The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery’s mandate is to research, exhibit, collect, publish, educate and develop programs in the field of contemporary art and in contemporary approaches to the practice of art history and criticism.
Information
- Location:
- Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2
- Phone:
- (604) 822-2759
- Tues - Fri:
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Sat - Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Notes
My Flickr
Flickr pictures by Belkin Art Gallery | Showing 10 photos described as interrobang
Favorite Pages
Events
18 past eventsSee All
- Judy Radul: World Rehearsal Court
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Thursday, October 8 at 8:00pm - Curatorial Lecture Series, Ans...
Frederic Lasserre Building, Room 104
Monday, November 23 at 6:30pm - CURATORIAL LECTURE SERIES SHA...
Michael Ames Theatre, Museum of Ant...
Thursday, November 19 at 6:30pm - Tech Talk: What Is An Apparatus?
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Saturday, November 7 at 1:00pm - Curatorial Lecture Series, Car...
Frederic Lasserre Building, Room 102
Monday, October 26 at 6:30pm - Artist Talk: Judy Radul
Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, 1825 Main ...
Saturday, October 17 at 1:00pm - Tonel: Las partes que más me s...
Walter C. Koerner Library
Friday, July 10 at 8:00am - Interrobang
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery...
Friday, September 4 at 10:00am - Vancouver Art in the Sixties P...
At the Or Gallery Sept. 3, 7:00pm
Thursday, September 3 at 7:00pm - Vancouver Art in the Sixties P...
At the Or Gallery Sept. 3, 7:00pm
Thursday, September 3 at 7:00pm
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Only a few days left to see Judy Radul: World Rehearsal Court. The exhibition is up until Sunday December 6.
Location:Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Time:8:00PM Thursday, October 8th
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Nicolaus Schafhausen, Curatorial Lecture Series event has been cancelled, due to unforeseen circumstances. Apologies, and we will repost a new date for this lecture when it is rescheduled.
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
The Curatorial Studies Program and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia present Fear in the Transnational Community: A Response by Artists and Curators a talk by Shaheen Merali as part of the Curatorial Lecture Series.
Shaheen Merali is a curator and writer based in Berlin and Lo...ndon. Between 2003 and 2008 he was the Head of Department for Exhibitions, Film and New Media at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin; in 2008, he was the Artistic Director of the Bodhi Galleries in New York, Mumbai, Berlin and Singapore; and in 2006, he was the Co-curator of the 2006 6th Gwangju Biennale of Korea. His recent curatorial project consisted of a large-scale historical show, The Untold (the rise of) Schisms, held at Alcala 31 in Madrid.
Fear in the Transnational Community: A Response by Artists and Curators will examine issues and commentators who use language specific to the arts to address a major shift in perspectives taking place in the new millennium. This shift is marked by a desire to engage with the notion of reality, which has become complex and entangled, as have all other global concepts and beliefs.
The rubric “fine art” no longer refers primarily to a series of catalogued works or objects but also to a set of practices. Despite this, the language of art practice continues to express specific concepts and beliefs, which are entangled within a system where potential spectators are not necessarily included. In the new century, artists and curators are charting the efficacy of adopted methods of curation in the condensed visuality of the globe. In trying to understand these concerns, questions are raised about diminishing resources, the role of diplomacy, and the move away from the notion of an abundant Earth and toward the notion of a world in constant provocation.
The talk will be concluded by an examination of Merali’s recent exhibition at the Kunsthalle Brot, Vienna, The Promise of Loss, An Index of Contemporary Iran.
The Curatorial Lecture Series presents lectures on contemporary curatorial practice. It is organized by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in collaboration with the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, the Museum of Anthropology, and the Department of Anthropology, with the support of the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies; and the Faculty of Arts at The University of British Columbia. This lecture is organized in collaboration with Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
FEAR IN THE TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITY: A RESPONSE BY ARTISTS AND CURATORS
Time:6:30PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Michael Ames Theatre, Museum of Anthropology 6393 N.W. Marine Drive, UBC
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
This talk is a practical discussion of the approaches to, technological coordination, and production of Judy Radul's World Rehearsal Court. Though intended for a general audience, the talk may be particularly interesting to individuals who work with technology or are considering embarking on such projects. The panel ca...n share their experiences in the planning, coordinating, and testing of computer controlled cameras and switching systems; High Definition format long program playback; handling multi track projects in Final Cut; and Max MSP Camera Choreography system development.
However, this discussion will not be an unconsidered rush into techno-celebrationism. Those on the production team are creators in their own right, users who "pervert" technology to their own purposes rather than follow prescribed routes. The talk will also turn at points to how each negotiates a relationship with technology, and how the participants think that working with specific technologies might condition their understanding of the world around them.
"I shall call an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control, or secure the gestures, behaviours, opinions, or discourses of living beings. ...[W]e have two great classes: living beings (or substances) and apparatuses. And, between these two, a third class, subjects. I call a subject that which results from the relation and, so to speak, from the relentless fight between living beings and apparatuses." (Giorgio Agamben, What is an Apparatus?)
--
An on-line exhibition catalogue will be available in spring 2010 and will include contributions by Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London and Anselm Franke, Artistic Director, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp.
This project is supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Creation Grants in Fine Arts, The Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrech, and the Western Front Media Arts Artist-in-Residence Program, Vancouver.
A TALK WITH THE PRODUCTION TEAM FOR JUDY RADUL'S WORLD REHEARSAL COURT: Nick-Bradford Ewart, Jocelyn...e Chaput, Mark Curry, Khan Lee, Brady Marks, moderated by Judy Radul
Time:1:00PM Saturday, November 7th
Location:Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Ahmad Makkawi hey,i would like to receive the link for the old gallery of ASTUKO TANAKA, precisely the " body electric" thank you very much.best regards
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Curator and writer, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is the Artistic Director of documenta 13, 2012. She has been Chief Curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea since 2002, and is Interim Director for 2009. The author of publications including Arte Povera (London: Phaidon Press, 1999), she was Senior Curator ...at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / a MoMA affiliate, New York, from 1999 to 2001.
This talk will focus on the nature and meaning of documenta, its history and future. In the early 1950s, documenta was conceived as a direct response to the Third Reich’s policies towards ‘degenerate art’; at the time, in Germany, only an art which celebrated the regime was allowed, while all avant-gardes were banned. Over the years, it came to signify, in the context of Western Europe, a space in which full freedom of expression could be achieved. More recently, it has been a platform for a critique of Euro-Centrism. In contrast to other periodic international exhibitions that have emerged from the world fair models of the 19th century, documenta is therefore characterized by a strong theoretical grounding and a sense of the urgency of art in society.
documenta (13) is being developed from an archeological perspective, according to which every cultural project that moves forward must be grounded in a backward gaze, in an ecological relationship to the past. How was the present imagined in the second half of the 20th century and what was considered urgent at each successive edition of the exhibition?
The Curatorial Lecture Series is organized by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in collaboration with the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, the Museum of Anthropology, the Department of Anthropology, with the support of the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies and the Faculty of Arts at The University of British Columbia.
"Notes towards documenta (13)"
Time:6:30PM Monday, October 26th
Location:Frederic Lasserre Building, Room 102
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery A few words by Judy Radul on her upcoming exhibition at the Belkin: World Rehearsal Court. Opening is this Thursday 8 - 10.
www.artforum.com
The online edition of Artforum International Magazine.
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday,
October 8, 8 - 10 pm
Artist talk: Judy Radul
Saturday, October 17
1 to 2:30 pm at the Belkin Art Gallery
Additional artist talk
Saturday, November 7
1 to 2:30 pm at the Belkin Art Gallery
Lecture with Anselm Franke
Director, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Thursday, November 23
World ...Rehearsal Court, a solo exhibition of new work by Vancouver artist Judy Radul is a large-scale media installation. This work draws on Radul’s research into the role of theatricality and new technologies in the court of law and it questions the distinctions between experience, testimony, truth, and fiction that the law attempts to make distinct. World Rehearsal Court addresses the complexities of real-life experience that the court compresses into written record.
In one aspect of the installation, a seven-channel video work presents a series of courtroom vignettes based on trial transcripts from International Criminal Tribunals. Using a six-camera apparatus to videotape the proceedings, the work takes up the rigidity of the traditional court environment, a theatre where the physical arrangement of the players (judge, defense, prosecution) reflects their roles. In contrast to these pre-recorded court scenes, the other part of the installation is comprised of a series of computer-controlled live cameras which feed to an array of monitors. This use of real-time makes the gallery a theatrical and cinematic space.
Radul traveled to The Hague several times for the research for this work to observe trials at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The installation draws upon Radul’s previous works, such as Downe’s Point (2005), which explores the spatial ‘architecture’ that sight through a camera lens creates. World Rehearsal Court also shares an interest in blind spots and the inarticulable aspects of representation, previously explored through the use of blind actors in Describe Video (2007).
Judy Radul was born in Lillooet B.C., and lives and works in Vancouver. Her interdisciplinary practice embraces photography, sculpture, performance, video and mixed media installations. In 2000 she received a Master of Visual and Media Arts from Bard College, New York. She has exhibited her work internationally including Mechelen (Belgium), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (Antwerp), Catriona Jeffries Gallery (Vancouver), Oboro (Montreal), Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), and The Power Plant (Toronto). Radul teaches at Simon Fraser University and her creative writing and essays on theatre, performance art and visual art have appeared in a variety of publications since 1991.
An on-line exhibition catalogue will be available in spring 2010 and will include contributions by Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London and Anselm Franke, Artistic Director, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp.
This project is supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Creation Grants in Fine Arts, The Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the Basis Vor Actuel Kunst (BAK), Utrech, and the Western Front Media Arts Artist-in-Residence Program, Vancouver.
—
For more information contact Naomi Sawada at (604) 822-3640 or naomi.sawada@ubc.ca
Time:8:00PM Thursday, October 8th
Location:Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery A letter from our director to BC Premeir Gordon Campbell.
www.facebook.com
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Employment Opportunity: Graphics and Media Assistant
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC has an opening for a part-time Graphics and Media Assistant (UBC Job ID 6150; Research Asst/Tech 4).
This is a two-year term position with the possibility of extension. The position is 22.5 hours/week and the salary is $...28,180/year. There is the potential for additional hours on a per project basis.
The Graphics and Media Assistant is responsible for: designing, updating and maintaining the Gallery’s website, including creating interactive pages and utility sites; creating, designing and updating in-house graphic design projects including advertisements, brochures, posters, signage and exhibition didactic material; and assisting with electronic media projects, including editing of digital videos and DVD authoring. The Graphics and Media Assistant is responsible for scanning, preparing and organizing a variety of photographic and digital images and video for documentation, publications, and publicity. The position assists with maintaining the Gallery’s computer network, databases, and equipment, including scanners, printers, digital cameras,video cameras, and programming custom multimedia equipment used in exhibitions. The position assists with exhibition installations and other gallery duties as required.
Qualifications: Post secondary degree in Art History, Fine Arts, or a related field plus two years related experience, or an appropriate Information Technology post secondary/professional degree combined with a background/experience in contemporary art projects or galleries. Training in website design, electronic media and graphic design required. Demonstrated experience with Adobe Dreamweaver and with hand-coding to create dynamically generated web pages; knowledge of languages such as XHTML, CSS, XML, and Javascript. Multimedia programming experience, such as Flash with Actionscript, and technical understanding of various multimedia formats. Layout and design experience with software such as Adobe In Design, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Demonstrated experience in applying design principles behind widely used browsers, including browser-specific features and limitations regarding HTML and CSS implementation. Experience with server side technologies as they relate to web design and online database management (SQL and PHP). Knowledge of database software and related technologies. Knowledge of contemporary and video art production and practices. High degree of responsibility and initiative; effective oral and written communication, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills; ability to work both independently and within a team environment, ability to prioritize work, multi-task, and meet competing deadlines. Interest in, and the ability to research, learn and implement new software, and stay current with developments in computer technology.
Recommended: Experience in digital video editing, DVD authoring, and DVD and CD-ROM production an asset; knowledge of software such as DVD Studiopro, Compressor, A. pack, and Final Cut Pro. Experience working in an art gallery and experience handling artworks according to museum standards an asset.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia researches, collects, publishes, and exhibits contemporary art in an international context. The Gallery is a recognized Category A institution and has collegial relations with major institutions all over the world, with which it exchanges works of art for exhibition and collaborates on projects that make important contributions to scholarship on the art of our time. The Gallery’s art collection of over 3,500 objects is the third largest public collection of art in B.C. In addition, the Gallery houses the one of the largest artists’ archives in Canada. The Belkin also participates in the training of student curators through the Critical and Curatorial Studies Program in the Department of Art History, Visual and Theory.
Deadline for applications: 9:00 AM, Monday, October 5, 2009.
To apply to this position email a cover letter and resume to:
Annette Wooff, Administrator
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
The University of British Columbia
1825 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6E 1P9
Current UBC staff should apply as internal applicants through the UBC Human Resources website at http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers/staff.html in order to have internal rights recognized (Job ID 6150). Please note the salary is 60% of the annual salary posted on the UBC HR website.
www.hr.ubc.ca
Search, access and apply online for faculty or staff positions with UBC.
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Ubyssey article on Interrobang.
ubyssey.ca
A five channel video installation shows a woman washing pomegranates with sounds of running water, abstract soundscapes, bits of music plucked out on strings and singing. The five screens show the scene cut up and simultaneous. ...
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Interrobang reception tonight! 7-10. Start your swarm evening at UBC.
UBC MASTER OF FINE ARTS GRADUATE EXHIBITION
Location:Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC
Time:10:00AM Friday, September 4th
