Public Lecture by Isaac Julien

Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 7:00pm

We invite you to join the the Faculty of Art in welcoming Isaac Julien as the inaugural artist in residence for the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation Global Experience Project.

The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation Global Experience Project presents:

Public Lecture by Isaac Julien

Choreographing Moving Image: Post-Cinematic Desire and Politics of Aesthetics in TEN THOUSAND WAVES (2010)

Thursday, March 30th at 7:00 p.m.

100 McCaul Street – Auditorium (Room 190)

Please also join us for a Community Round Table Discussion with Isaac Julien

Friday, March 31st, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.  Room 322, 230 Richmond Street West

What are the techniques used to display video in gallery spaces and what are visitors’ reception habits for the moving image? In Isaac Julien’s TEN THOUSAND WAVES (2010) the spectator enters the work’s space, moves in between screens and selects perspectives. The act of spectating is rendered visible by making the audience part of the installation. While an exhibition can be a space for critical reception, the usual modes of presentation for video works tend to evoke cinema spaces and position audiences in the role of passive beholders of the image. How can the space of presentation be a tool for immersion but also create a critical distance and implicate an active audience?

“In the closed space of cinema there is no circulation, no movement, and no exchange. In the darkness, spectators sink into their seats as though slipping into bed… this model is broken apart by the folding of the dark space of cinema into the white cube of the gallery."   Michael Snow on La Région Centrale

About Isaac Julien:

Isaac Julien is a Turner prize nominated artist, photographer and filmmaker. He was born in London in 1960, where he currently lives and works.

Earlier films and photographic works include “Young Soul Rebels” (1991), which was awarded the Semaine de la Critique Prize at the Cannes Film Festival; the acclaimed poetic film-essay and photographic series “Looking for Langston” (1989); and “Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask” (1996).

Julien has pioneered a form of multi-screen installations, including light-boxes and photographic works with “Western Union: Small Boats” (2007), “Ten Thousand Waves” (2010) and “Playtime: Kapital” (2014).

Julien participated in the 56th Biennale di Venezia and worked closely with its curator Okwui Enwezor (2015). He has exhibited his work in major museums and institutions across the world including “Ten Thousand Waves” at Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013-2014), which is currently exhibited at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2016). In 2015, Julien had a retrospective at the Depont Museum (Tilburg, the Netherlands). In 2016, he showed “Playtime” and “Kapital” at El Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City and recently had a solo photographic exhibition titled "Vintage" (Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco) displaying his photographic oeuvre from the 1980's and his seminal "Looking for Langston" series, which is also included in “Made You Look”, at The Photographers' Gallery.

Julien’s work is included in the collections of institutions around the globe. In 2013 MoMA published RIOT, a monographic survey of his career to date, featuring his films, photographic and installation works over the period.

Julien is currently producing a new work that is a poetic meditation on aspects of the life and architecture of Lina Bo Bardi. The first chapter of this work, “Stones Against Diamonds”, was shown during 2015's La Biennale di Venezia, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach. Amongst forthcoming exhibitions, “Western Union: Small Boats” will be part of “Protest” exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery (fall 2016).

After teaching at Harvard University (1998-2002), Julien was Professor of Media Art at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe (2009-2015) and Chair of Global Art at University of Arts London (2014-2016).

Isaac Julien is currently the OCAD University Artist in Residence for the inaugural Global Experience Project.  The Global Experience Project is generously supported by the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation.

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University 100 McCaul Street Auditorium (Room 190) Toronto, ON
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/faculty-of-art/globalexperience.htm
Cost: 
Free
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Student Social: Tom Barker, Candidate, Dean, Faculty of Design

Friday, May 2, 2008 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Tom Barker, Candidate, Dean, Faculty of Design will give a presentation to the OCAD community at 2 pm in Room 240, followed by a student social in the Lambert Lounge (Room 187) from 3 to 4 pm.

Venue & Address: 
Lambert Lounge (Room 187) 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Student Social: Ted Krueger, Candidate, Dean, Faculty of Design

Monday, April 28, 2008 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Ted Krueger, Candidate, Dean, Faculty of Design will give a presentation to the OCAD community in Room 230 (Central Hall, Level 2) at 2 pm, followed by a student social in the Lambert Lounge (Room 187) from 3 to 4 pm.

Venue & Address: 
Lambert Lounge (Room 187) 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Materializing the Philippines: Piña Textiles, Nationalism and Border Zones of Cultural Production

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:00pm

The sale of handmade objects -- “ethnic or tourist arts” -- has become an important source of income for artisans in many communities in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. A variety of products speaking of their national or cultural identity, change hands in complex, multistranded commodity chains that ordinarily link artisans from these communities to consumers, often from the upper and middle classes, of the United States, Canada, Europe and parts of the Global South. The trade in such objects ranges from inexpensive, functional souvenirs to a new breed of “high ethnic art” objects. Drawing on the contemporary production of
goods and clothing made from piña (pineapple) cloth, a textile distinctive to the central Philippines, this paper explores the alternative strategies that artisans and designers use to enter this global trade more on their own terms. Artisans may craft a “this plus that” sort of construction -- the “this” of global modernity plus the “that” of timeless indigenous tradition. Scholars and the public often decry such
crossing of aesthetic boundaries as indicative of cultural contamination.

This lecture argues that such cultural graftings, or border zones of production, celebrate negotiated meanings and the ongoing oscillations in objects that make and remake material relations between people, things and national and personal identities. In so doing, the lecture reflects critically on the taken-for-granted categories of “tradition,” “authenticity” and “high or low ethnic art”.

B. Lynne Milgram is Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Studies at Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada. Her research on material culture and on gender and development in the Philippines analyzes the cultural politics of social change with regard to fair trade, microfinance and women’s work in crafts, street vending and the secondhand clothing trade (the latter between the Philippines and Hong Kong). This research is published in edited volumes and in journals including Human Organization (2001), Anthropologica (2004), Asian Studies Review (2005) and Urban Anthropology (2005, 2008). She has co-edited (with K. Grimes) Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy (2000) and (with R. Hamilton) Material Choices: Refashioning Bast and Leaf Fibers in Asia and the Pacific (2007). Her forthcoming (2008) co-edited book (with K. Browne) is titled Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches.

Venue & Address: 
Institute of Advanced Studies; University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Australia
Email: 
iasuwa@admin.uwa.edu.au
Cost: 
Free

Student Social with Dr. Martha Fleming

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 8:00pm to 8:45pm

Three candidates, Dr. Victoria Vesna, Dr. James Moy and Dr. Martha Fleming have been shortlisted for the position of Dean, Faculty of Art.

As part of the hiring process each candidate will be on campus attending a series of meetings and will give a public lecture for faculty and students.

All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend these public lectures. As these lectures and socials are an important part of the hiring process, please encourage students to attend and offer feedback.

Venue & Address: 
Rm 187 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Dr. Martha Fleming

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Three candidates, Dr. Victoria Vesna, Dr. James Moy and Dr. Martha Fleming have been shortlisted for the position of Dean, Faculty of Art.

As part of the hiring process each candidate will be on campus attending a series of meetings and will give a public lecture for faculty and students.

All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend these public lectures. As these lectures and socials are an important part of the hiring process, please encourage students to attend and offer feedback.

Venue & Address: 
Auditorium 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Student Social with Dr. Victoria Vesna

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 8:15pm to 9:00pm

Two candidates, Dr. Victoria Vesna and Dr. James Moy, have been shortlisted for the position of Dean, Faculty of Art, and a third candidate is pending confirmation.
As part of the hiring process each candidate will be on campus attending a series of meetings and will give a public lecture for faculty and students.
Dr. Vesna will be on campus Monday, January 14th and will present in Rm 230 from 2 to 3 pm. The lecture will be followed by a Student Social in Rm 187 from 3:15 to 4 pm.
Dr. Moy will be on campus Friday, January 18 and will present in Rm 190 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. This will be preceded by the Student Social in Rm 187 from 1:15 to 2 pm.
All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend these public lectures. As these lectures and socials are an important part of the hiring process, please encourage students to attend and offer feedback.

Venue & Address: 
Rm 187 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Student Social with Dr. James Moy

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 6:15pm to 7:00pm

Two candidates, Dr. Victoria Vesna and Dr. James Moy, have been shortlisted for the position of Dean, Faculty of Art, and a third candidate is pending confirmation.
As part of the hiring process each candidate will be on campus attending a series of meetings and will give a public lecture for faculty and students.
Dr. Vesna will be on campus Monday, January 14th and will present in Rm 230 from 2 to 3 pm. The lecture will be followed by a Student Social in Rm 187 from 3:15 to 4 pm.
Dr. Moy will be on campus Friday, January 18 and will present in Rm 190 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. This will be preceded by the Student Social in Rm 187 from 1:15 to 2 pm.
All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend these public lectures. As these lectures and socials are an important part of the hiring process, please encourage students to attend and offer feedback.

Venue & Address: 
Rm 187 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Dr. James Moy

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm

Two candidates, Dr. Victoria Vesna and Dr. James Moy, have been shortlisted for the position of Dean, Faculty of Art, and a third candidate is pending confirmation.
As part of the hiring process each candidate will be on campus attending a series of meetings and will give a public lecture for faculty and students.
Dr. Vesna will be on campus Monday, January 14th and will present in Rm 230 from 2 to 3 pm. The lecture will be followed by a Student Social in Rm 187 from 3:15 to 4 pm.
Dr. Moy will be on campus Friday, January 18 and will present in Rm 190 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. This will be preceded by the Student Social in Rm 187 from 1:15 to 2 pm.
All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend these public lectures. As these lectures and socials are an important part of the hiring process, please encourage students to attend and offer feedback.

Venue & Address: 
Auditorium 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Dr. Victoria Vesna

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Two candidates, Dr. Victoria Vesna and Dr. James Moy, have been shortlisted for the position of Dean, Faculty of Art, and a third candidate is pending confirmation.
As part of the hiring process each candidate will be on campus attending a series of meetings and will give a public lecture for faculty and students.
Dr. Vesna will be on campus Monday, January 14th and will present in Rm 230 from 2 to 3 pm. The lecture will be followed by a Student Social in Rm 187 from 3:15 to 4 pm.
Dr. Moy will be on campus Friday, January 18 and will present in Rm 190 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. This will be preceded by the Student Social in Rm 187 from 1:15 to 2 pm.
All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend these public lectures. As these lectures and socials are an important part of the hiring process, please encourage students to attend and offer feedback.

Venue & Address: 
Rm 230 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

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