Other Sights for Artists’ Projects
Digital Natives is a series of text-based messages that will be inserted into the stream of advertising that animates the electronic billboard mounted on Squamish territory by the Skwxwú7mesh Nation, at the southwestern end of the Burrard Street Bridge. Utilizing the 140-character form of Twitter messages, these texts, written by artists, writers, curators and Vancouver...
Office Supplies Incorporated
Office Supplies Incorporated is the street name of a Vancouver artist whose practice is familiar to many who move through the city with eyes open to the diverse range of art practices that animate parks, alleyways and other overlooked spaces. Utilizing collage techniques and large-scale screen-printed images on paper, the artist creates extensive murals that...
Inge Roecker and the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Lu’s Pharmacy opened at 29 East Hastings Street in July 2009, a project initiated by the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective (VWHC). The retrofit of the building’s exterior and interior was led by Vancouver architect Inge Roecker in collaboration with UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture’s community outreach design studios. The goal of the VWHC...
Laurynas Navidauskas / DOXA
A city’s history is often rooted in its physical environment and observable in the various architectural styles, diverse neighbourhoods and other material traces of the past. Yet cities like Vancouver constantly reinvent and reimagine themselves, and, with the accelerated pace of development, eradicate what remains of their material history. This rapid rate of change often...
Colin Browne / DOXA
The Image Before Us uses rare archival footage to illustrate how the picture of a city can be constructed with selective use of film images. Writer and filmmaker Colin Browne scoured archives throughout North America to locate footage about Vancouver. What he found was an amazing collection of promotional films that featured this city as...
Derek Barnett
Derek Barnett’s approach to the graphic design for this exhibition began with an analysis of the multiple ways text is encountered within the space of the city, on its varied surfaces, signs and sidewalks. Our reading of the city is rarely orderly and aligned, but instead disjointed and unstructured, at different viewpoints and angles, or...
