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Kristina Zanotto, Painting with Kristina, 2005, slideshow.
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Jennifer Hui, Self Portrait, 2005, photograph.
Echolalia: Second and Third Year Visual Arts Student Exhibiton
February 28 – March 11, 2006
SFU Gallery, Burnaby
School for the Contemporary Arts, Bartlett Exhibition and Performance Space
Alexander Centre, Room 330, 611 Alexander St. Vancouver
Participating artists: Adriana Contreras, Kaye Frost-Hunt, Carrie Hodge, Jennifer Hui, Cole Johnston, Shilo Jones, Vanessa Kelly, Katie McLellan, Nariman Mousavi, Sudabeh Mousavi, Cameron Kenneth Neil, Dan Newbrook, Janine Prevost, Ian Robert, Madeline Smith, Christina Suto, Chris Turner, Sherry Walchuk, Jin-Young Yoon, Kristina Zanotto, Kate Zisman.
In 1969, the SFU Gallery hosted an exhibition of conceptual art curated by Seth Siegelaub. That show was initiated for SFU by Iain Baxter, who was, at that time, a guiding force at the SFU Gallery. Siegelaub's exhibition featured work by Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. and Lawrence Weiner. This was one of the first conceptual art exhibitions in Vancouver and can be seen as having played a role in the “theory and praxis” idea that continues as the basis of pedagogy in the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU.
The global excitement surrounding the current, largely ironic reconsideration of conceptual art's impact can be heard echoing within university art departments and art schools on every continent. This exhibition re-examines the “conceptual” premises of the visual art area of the School for the Contemporary Arts by exploring and echoing aspects of conceptual practice from the late 1960s. Echolalia is a human condition in which the subject immediately repeats what they have just heard. While autism researchers have wrestled with the question of whether echoed repetition can ever be meaningful, this condition has been meaningfully codified in art as ‘quotation’. Echolalia serves as a quotational platform from which recent work produced in the shadow of conceptualism can be articulated, displayed and assessed.
Echolalia is a collaborative project between the students and faculty of the School for the Contemporary Arts and the SFU Gallery.
Special thanks to Vanessa Kelly and Christina Suto for their work on this project.
Events
Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 2006, 7pm