September 2011
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Stan Douglas, "Win, Place or Show (1998)" →
Nostalgia rises to importance as a cultural practice as culture becomes more and more diffuse, more and more a “structure of feeling” (Williams n.d.), as culture takes on the power of “distance” that comes of displacing speakers-the power to flatten distinctions, to blur genres, to unname the practices of the social world so that they look like nature (Barthes 1957)....
The street symbolizes a hoped-for radicality, but legitimation still lurks within the gallery itself.
-Keith Wallace in Vancouver Anthology
“A lot of the new forms that have emerged have a sense of the abruptness of their...”
– “Jeff Wall talks to Bob Nickas” (2003) (source)
Great stuff happening in and around Vancouver this...
1) Awake in Mount Pleasant - An exhibition of work by Arni Haraldsson
Opening: Sept 9, 6-9pm
Runs until Oct 9, 2011
CSA Space
#5-2414 Main Street
2) Total Confusion Fabulous, New Works by Bradley Harms
Opening: Sept 15, 7pm
Runs until Oct 15, 2011
Place: Black and Yellow
Room 106, The Waldorf Hotel
1489 East Hastings street
3) Project Space Opening at SWARM
Project Space is a book...
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