SCA | Quick News | February 26, 2021
Radul in the Gwangju Biennial
The SCA's Judy Radul is in Korea to be part of the Gwangju Biennial, which runs April 1 to May 9, 2021. One of only four artists able to make the trip, read about the Biennial and Radul's time there HERE.
SCA dancers for MascallDance
SCA dancers are involved in two ongoing projects with MascallDance: The Impossible has Already Happened, which features SCA PhD candidate Daisy Thompson and alumni Marissa Gold, and PRIVILEGE, which features alumni Erica Mitsuhashi, Eowynn Enquist, and Gold. Find out more about these projects and watch some trailers HERE.
Ekmeles plays Bruton
The Ekmeles vocal ensemble will be premiering a new work, i n s t i t u, by SCA alumni Rebecca Bruton at a FREE concert on Saturday, February 27, at 8:00 PM, and will stay online for a week. More HERE.
Cheung in Colonial Imports
SCA alumni Joni Cheung aka "Snack Witch" contributed to the inaugural issue of Colonial Imports, a new arts publication from Yolkless Press that "unravels and interweaves food, culture, identity, and placemaking, with original contributions by artists and writers based in Mohkínstsis as well as farther afield." Follow Yolkless Press on Instagram.
Weekend Chime panel
SCA alumni (and your dutiful SCA Communicator) Brady Cranfield and Casey Wei and Betty Mulat and Russell Wallace participated in a listening event and discussion on February 25, 2021, about pop music, politics, and everyday life, presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery in support of Cranfield's new public art work, Weekend Chime, which was supported by City of Vancouver's Cultural Services. Watch the replay HERE.
K BODY AND MIND trailer
Watch the trailer for K BODY AND MIND, a new a sci-fi miniseries by SCA alumni Conor Wylie and A Wake of Vultures, Wylie's ongoing collaboration with fellow SCA alumni Nancy Tam + Daniel O’Shea. Watch it HERE.
Bicentenario showing
SCA alumni Pablo Alvarez Mesa is presenting his documentary Bicentenario at the MoMA, as part of "Doc Fortnight 2021," MoMA’s Festival of International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media. More HERE. Also, Bicentenario is screening as part of the Berlinale: Berlin International Film Festival. More HERE. Double congratulations, Pablo!
Kong interviewed
Read an interview with the SCA's Yani Kong by the SFU Sustainability Office about her new, ongoing research on the carbon footprint of streaming media in online teaching and learning. Read it HERE.
SCA dancers for Co.ERASGA's Digital Studio Salon
SCA MFA student Tin Gamboa with Salome Nieto (Digital Studio Salon: Spring Series #1 on April 17, 2021, at 5:00 PM) and SCA alumni Sammy Chien & Jeanette Kotowich (Digital Studio Salon: Spring Series #2 on April 18, 2021, 5:00 PM) will be presenting works-in-progress as part of Co.ERASGA's Digital Studio Salon: Spring Series. Follow Co.ERASGA on Facebook for more info.
New Societies at Crow's Theatre
Crow's Theatre, Toronto, is presenting Re:Current Theatre's New Societies from March 18 – March 28, 2021, which is chock-full of ace SCA folks: "Concept by Brian Postalian, created with the company: Sena Cagla, Howard Dai, Alexa Fraser, Evan Medd, Hannah Meyers, Pascal Reiners, Amanda Sum, Meagan Woods, Montserrat Videla, and Laura Coons." More HERE.
Lavery's new gig
SCA alumni Lauren Lavery is the new Communications & Development Assistant at the Unit/Pitt Society for Art & Critical Awareness! Congrats, Lauren. While you're here, read what Lauren has to say about Jill Ho-You's exhibition Inversion for the Martha Street Studio HERE.
Laiwan reads Le Guin
Read Ursula K. Le Guin with SCA alumni Laiwan on Sunday, February 28, 2021, from 4:00 – 5:30 PM (PST) as part of at CAG Reads, presented by the Contemporary Art Gallery. More HERE.
Dai directs a UBC MedPlay
SCA alumni Howard Dai posted about working with UBC medical students on a UBC MedPlay. Read what he had to say HERE.
Tacata and the Goat Island Archive
The SCA's Ryan Tacata participated in a facilitated discussion about the Goat Island Archive on Thursday, February 25, 2021, for the Yale School of Drama and Theater Magazine, which dedicated an issue to Goat Island. Read it HERE.
Woyno R on Pier: Asserting Breath in Projection Content Creation and Playback Systems
Watch the SCA's Wladimiro A. Woyno R. talk about his work "Pier: Asserting Breath in Projection Content Creation and Playback Systems," which was presented as part of Associated Designers of Canada's Level Up events, which ran 18 January – 15 February, 2021. Watch it HERE.
Bitter & Urban Subjects' If Time Is Still Alive
The SCA's Sabine Bitter and Urban Subjects, the cultural research collective of Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber, have curated the exhibition If Time Is Still Alive, featuring the Black Quantum Futurism Collective (Camae Ayewa & Rasheedah Phillips), Eva Egermann, School of Temporalities (Maja Bekan, Annette Krauss, and Julia Wieger), Amanda Strong & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and
Ultra-red, which will run from March 3 – May 23, 2021, as part of Camera Austria's The City & The Good Life. More HERE.
Marks' A World Where Flowers Reign
As part of Vancouver Independent Archives Week's 2019-2021 Recollective programming, the SCA's Laura Marks is presenting A World Where Flowers Reign, a new text in response to The Upper Side of the Sky (October 12, 2020-April 30, 2021), an online VR exhibition by Jawa El Khash, curated by Dana Qaddah, and Posterity & Expatriation, a conversation between by Jawa El Khash and Dana Qaddah that took place on Saturday, November 28, 2020. Read it HERE.
asses.masses goes to Buenos Aires
SCA alumni Milton Lim and Patrick Blenkarn are presenting their asses.masses project as part of the 2021 Festivales de Buenos Aires. Read about asses.masses HERE.
Del Fierro and Goodman walk for PuSh
Listen to a PuSh Walk – a kind of audio tour of a particular place, presented by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival – by SCA alumni Jesse Del Fierro and one by SCA alumni Vanessa Goodman and collaborator Caroline Shaw done in a Massachusetts graveyard in support of their work Graveyards and Gardens. Listen HERE.
Sum does White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
SCA super-busy alumni Amanda Sum is performing Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, presented by The Cultch, on March 13, 2021 at 7:30 PM (PST), for free! More HERE.
Debby Friday's Runnin
SCA MFA student Debby Friday (Deborah Micho) received a good preview of her new track Runnin on Pitchfork. Watch and listen HERE.
Chien's Ritual-Spective 迴融
SCA alumni Sammy Chien is launching a new project, Ritual-Spective 迴融. More HERE.