UBC Art History, Visual Art and Theory
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The Department is happy to announce a new initiative, established and supported by AHVA Faculty member Jeneen Frei Njootli, that will cover the cost of the grad...uate admission application fee to the MFA program for Black and Indigenous applicants. Full application details can be found here: https://ahva.ubc.ca/call-to-action-joanne-alice-applicatio/ This award is part of AHVA’s commitment to UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan and the Inclusion Action Plan. Please circulate this announcement widely through all your relevant networks. Thank you. MORE THAN MEDICINE SHOULD BURN FOR YOU Cotton, bleach, hair, seed beads, polyester. 2020 Image credit: Barb Choit

Hi all! It has been four years since the last major redesign of the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory website. By Autumn 2021, we will aim to deliver a new site structure that is content-first, user-centered, and data driven. At this initial phase, we would like to request your feedback via a short online survey https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42QWzeybM4x9JHf The survey closes on Sunday, December 13, 2020.

Congratulations to our second year MFAs for completing the interdepartmental critiques on Nov 6 and 13! We would like to thank everyone again for attending. Our 2nd Year MFA exhibition Coordination Complex (diagram enclosed) is currently on at the AHVA Gallery until December 3, 2020! Artists: Sol Hashemi, Martin Katzoff, Natalie Purschwitz, Xan Shian, Dion Smith-Dokkie... Check out our website for more details and book your visit here: http://bit.ly/ahvagallerybook #solhashemi #martinkatzoff #nataliepurschwitz #xanshian #dionsmithdokkie #mfaexhibition #ahvagallery #audainartcentre #ubcahva UBC Arts & Culture District

Our first week of classes this year coincides with the September 9 and 10 Scholar Strike Canada to protest anti-Black, racist and colonial police brutality in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere. Catch the live streams of digital teach-ins on police brutality and violence in our communities from both historical and contemporary perspectives on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0GfdXNSJhhAsvwV0psWaw/

Emerging from our homes, safely distanced, staged, and masked supporters, @belkinartgallery team members, and @ahvaubc faculty, staff, and students gathered tonight to celebrate the opening of one sentence too many, one word too few: 2020 MFA Visual Art Graduate Exhibition. Open to the public from tomorrow through August 16! Congratulations to the artists! #rosamundebordo #matthewballantyne #jaypahre #nazaninoghanian #samanthakinsley #alejandrobarbosa #mfa #gradschool @ubcartsculture @ubc_arts

ARTH 230Art and Feminism(s): Histories, Lineages, Legacies 2020 Winter Term 1 (Tuesday/Thursday 3:305:00) with Professor Erin Silver What constitutes a feminist art practice in the present day, and to whom do we owe feminist art historical genealogies? This new course examines the diverse strands of artistic and cultural production from the nineteenth century to the present day that contribute to histories of feminist art. The early 1970s marks the era in North America wh...en feminist art came into view as a category, while in the decades following, artists have worked to take into account global developments in art, activism, and theory that have pluralized feminist identifications and have explored intersections with race, ethnicity, ability, gender, class, and sexual orientation, with important developments, in the twenty-first century, toward trans-inclusive theory and practice. Image: Lorraine O’Grady as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire

ARTH 323Heaven and Earth: Renaissance Art and Culture in Northern Europe 2020 Winter Term 1 (Tuesday/Thursday, 11:0012:30) with Professor Joseph Monteyne Painting, sculpture, and graphic art in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are studied in this course with special emphasis on the major figures of this period, from Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden to Matthias Grunewald, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbe...in, and Pieter Bruegel. Topics include the transformation of craft into art as a self-reflective and intellectual practice (Kunst); the emergence of oil painting as a transformative media; the German sculpted altarpiece and the triptych as Northern genres; visual art and the Reformation; the emergence of graphic culture and the fine art print; witchcraft and mystical nature in German art; classicism in the north; and the birth of secular artportraiture, landscape, and scenes of everyday life. Image: Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), c. 1500, oil on panel

ARTH 253Asian Architecture: Sacred and Urban Spaces (topic: Asian Cities) 2020 Winter Term 2 (Wednesdays, 2:005:00) Professor Ignacio Adriasola... Through a series of case studies focusing on current urban form, this course will examine city and representation across Asia. Topics discussed will include geography, landscape, and the inscription of historical memory (The Past City); modernism and the rise of urban culture in the twentieth century (The Modernist City); urban forms in the age of European encroachment (The Colonial City); developmentalism and its critique in the postwar/post-independence periods (The City of the Future). We will conclude with a brief exploration of diasporic formations across the Pacific Rim, including VancouverThe Diasporic City. Image: Sugiura Hisui, Tokyo Metro Advertisement, 1925

Please read our statement regarding the department's support of #BlackLivesMatter and the first steps we are taking for structural change: https://ahva.ubc.ca/department-statement-on-black-lives-ma/

Repost from @ubcundergradshow2020 Welcome to the 2020 Online Graduating Show ERRANCE!!! We’ve been working hard to make this show still happen despite the tough situation, and TODAY is the DAY! Stay tuned, our first artist is coming soon!!! . #2020 #ubc #ahva #visualart #bfa #ba #graduatingshow #opening #graduation #celebration #wecome

Repost from @ubcundergradshow2020 With extreme excitement, let us introduce to you the first artist of the day James Albers @skyrimmmed and his video/sound installation RACIALLY AMBIGUOUS TWINK TERRIFIES WHITE DADDIES, 2019! I produce artworks that engage with the mediums of photography, video, interfaces, performance, sound, writing, and everything in between. Using this interdisciplinary and intermedial approach is the only way that I can begin to explore the complex a...nd highly contextualized nature of identity. My body of work is concerned with how contemporary identities are constructed and mediated through the use of the body in relation to cameras and interfaces. My artworks explore these ideas by performing my own identity for the camera. I take into careful consideration how viewership may change the interpretation of my work, because everyone has their own unique subject position. My artworks point towards this topic of the subject position; I see the interaction with my artwork as more of a confrontation. Instead of engaging in performances for the camera, I invite viewers to see these as performances with the camera. James Albers #ubc #ahva #graduating #visualartist #visualart #artist #artistsoninstagram

AHVA Gallery is closed until further notice in order to ensure appropriate social distancing for all in our community. We hope to share some of this Decadence: Flows of Decay and Abundance with you soon on digital platforms! Stay tuned. #ahvagallery @ubcartsculture #stayhome @ Audain Art Centre