SCA | Quick News | June 10, 2022
Silverfox is a finalist
SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox is one of the five finalists for the 2022 Sobey Art Award! The Sobey awards "$100,000 to the overall winner, $25,000 to each of the shortlisted artists, and $10,000 to the remaining long-listed artists. In addition, the five shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, on view from October 28, 2022 until February 2023, with the winner announced at a gala ceremony this fall." Good luck, Krystle! More HERE.
Dickinson's Insight
Freed from its info embargo, we can now happily announce that the SCA's Peter Dickinson was awarded funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)'s Insight Program for his project "The Discourse of Dance in British Columbia." Congratulations, Peter!
Eigenfeldt at SMC-22
The SCA's Arne Eigenfeldt is chaperoning his Musebots at Sound and Music Computing 2022 (SMC-22), "a multifaceted event around acoustics, music, and audio technology," running June 4 – 12, 2022, in Saint-Étienne, France. More HERE.
Boisjoly in Basel
If you're over in Basel, Switzerland, go check out the Catriona Jeffries booth at Art Basel, which runs June 16 – 19, 2022, featuring work by the SCA's Raymond Boisjoly. More HERE.
Morag – trailer two
Watch trailer number two for Claire Love Wilson & Peter Lorenz's Morag, You're a Long Time Deid, featuring the SCA's Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez on Set & Lighting Design. Catch the show June 10 – 19, 2022, at The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver), presented in association with Touchstone Theatre. Watch it HERE.
Anderson talks synths
The SCA's Chris Anderson will be giving a talk at this re-booked FREE Kitsilano Synthesizer Meet-up on Sunday, June 12. 2022. Go nerd out with the community! More HERE.
Obuwoma introduced
Read an introduction to soon-to-be SCA alumnus Fegor Obuwoma, who's the Undergraduate speaker for the FCAT portion of SFU's Convocation on June 6, 2022. Read it HERE.
Beau's back
SCA alumnus Beau Han Bridge is back at the SCA to work on his MFA in Film Production thesis project at York University. While here, he's been working with the SCA's Rob Kitsos on a few things, including Habitus Fragments (2022) a looped two-screen installation in the lobby here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Beau was kind enough to share some notes about this installation and his thesis project, too. Read on ~
Habitus Fragments is a multifaceted three-part exploration on the architectural auras and embodiment of Vancouver's Historic Chinatown through cinematic gesture and film-theatre aesthetics. Through a combined application of open documentation, empty shots, and hybrid synthesis of gesture, movement, projection, and interior-exterior space: the expanded cinema work aims to touch upon transience and fluidity of economic change, gentrification, decay, and dislocated tensions that encompass Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown (and it’s interconnected borders of Victory Square) today.
As part of my MFA in Film production thesis work on Chinese-Canadian identity construction through film, I have arranged a research co-partnership between Toronto’s York University and SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts this summer in order to study the neighbourhood I was raised in during my early childhood (and late undergraduate years) and how it can be captured through interdisciplinary film practices. Being a fellow second-generation Chinese Canadian that has always associated this site-specific area as my “home”, the research experience has not only been a reflective homecoming in re-discovering who I am, but also an excitingly new experience of finding new forms (as Chekhov encouraged). Throughout this experience of working with Rob Kitsos (SFU Associate Director) and fellow SFU students Jullianna Oke (BFA in Dance) and Shervin Zarkalam (MFA), the learning and activities conducted in this short-term residency in the SCA's corridors has once again given me new ways of looking, and new artistic approaches that has helped me delve into the complexities and nuances of reconstructing myself and my identity within these contemporary filmed spaces.
I would like to sincerely thank the wonderful help of SCA dance professor Rob Kitsos, SFU dance student Julianna Oke, and SFU MFA graduate candidate Shervin Zarkalam, whom have all given me (and continue to give) their exceptional guidance, wisdom, time, and support to my collaborative research activities. I would also like to thank the SCA for the generous support in permitting me to engage this inspiring fieldwork residency throughout the summer 2022 intersession semester.
Digital Interventions Part II with Cleave, Monteiro, Phạm, and Smith
Upcoming! Massy Arts Society is hosting an opening reception on June 14, 2022, at 6:00 PM for the exhibitions Plastopia by Yeonmi Kim and Digital Interventions Part II, which is a group show featuring SCA alumni artists Sena Cleave, Vitória Monteiro, Hân Phạm, and Paige Smith. At the event, featured artists will address their creative process and work, answering questions from the audience, and engaging in one-on-one conversations about the themes + concepts behind both shows. RSVP HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi at SMC-22
Get a look at this intense venue that SCA alumnus Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi performed in as part of Sound and Music Computing 2022 (SMC-22) in Saint-Étienne, France, which runs June 4 – 12, 2022. More HERE.
Fredriksson and McMann in Body Extended
SCA alumni Emmalena Fredriksson and Jessica McMann will be presenting Ecdysis and iihksiisiinatsiistostiimao nipaitapiitsiin, respectively, as part of Body Extended on Sunday, June19, 2022, at 8:00 PM at Kelowna's Mary Irwin Theatre in the Rotary Centre for the Arts (421 Cawston Ave.). More HERE.
SCA in Dancing on the Edge
The 34th annual Dancing on the Edge Festival, which runs July 7 to 16, 2022, at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova), The Dance Centre (677 Davie Street), and various off-site locations in Vancouver, features SCA alumni Vanessa Goodman / Action at a Distance, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Starrwind Muranko, and Erika Mitsuhashi. More HERE.
Fraser's Gestural Symphony No.1
Upcoming! SCA alumnus Alexa Fraser's Gestural Symphony No.1, commissioned by What Lab as part of Fraser's / THEATRE CORPS.' “The Deep End” residency, including other SCA alumni – Matthew Winter, Paula Viitanen, Linnea Antos, and Dominique Samuels – as part of the project. Gestural Symphony No.1 runs June 23 – 26, 2022, at What Lab. More HERE.
Wallgrin at Red Gate
SCA alumnus Wallgrin is performing a show with Ora Cogan and C.Diab on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at 8:00 PM at the Red Gate Arts Society. More HERE.
After School – E1
The first episode of After School, the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology's new podcast which the SCA is part of, is live, featuring SFU School of Communication student Jake Friedrich and Communication alum Prem Gill. Listen HERE.
Stimuloso reviewed
SCA alumnus Casey Wei's rock group, Kamikaze Nurse's Stimuloso, out now on Mint Records, gets reviewed in Exclaim! Spoiler: 8/10. Read it HERE. Also, why not watch their latest video, Boom Josie.
Sum on the CBC
SCA alumnus Amanda Sum was on CBC Radio's On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko with director Mayumi Yoshida to talk about Sum's new music video, Different Than Before, which Yoshida directed. Listen HERE.
Sarah U in All Over the Map
SCA alumnus Sarah U will be performing on September 24, 2022, at Granville Island's Public Market Courtyard along with Dance Theatre Uganda and Her Tribal Roots, as part of New Works' All Over the Map summer programming. More HERE.
Hou's Panpsychic Sound Floor
SCA alumnus Julian Yi-Zhong Hou will be presenting Panpsychic Sound Floor from June 7 – 9, 2022, from 12:00 – 8:00 PM at Toronto's Music Gallery (918 Bathurst St.) as part of Strange Relief, "a multi-part, week-long exploration of sound and spirituality, curated by Second Spring. More HERE.
Sound in St. Albert
SCA alumnus Michelle Sound is the Art Gallery of St. Albert's "artist of the month" and was featured in the St. Albert Gazette, too. Sound's exhibition kanawêyimêw (She takes care of them) runs May 10 – August 6, 2022, with a virtual tour with the curator, Emily Baker, on June 21 at 12:00 PM (Alberta time). More HERE.
Saleken's The Dummy Factor at Cineworks
The SCA's Corbin Saleken's The Dummy Factor is screening for FREE at Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society on Friday, June 17, 2022, at 7:00 PM. Email education@cineworks.ca for more info.
Kuebler's Summer Intensive
Radical System Art's Shay Kuebler is running a Summer Intensive here at our place (SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver) from July 22 – 25, 2022, from 10:00 – 5:00 PM. More HERE.
Ahnahktsipiitaa on No Proscenium
SCA alumnus Colin Van Loon / Ahnahktsipiitaa was a guest on the No Proscenium podcast, talking about his work This Is Not A Ceremony, which is running as part of Tribeca Immersive. Listen HERE.
FCAT Indigenous Peer Mentorship program
Here's one small practical thing to help mark National Indigenous History Month, organized via the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, our institutional home here at SFU: Become the SCA's Indigenous Peer Mentor. The deadline to apply is June 19, 2022. Here's the main info:
The FCAT Indigenous Peer Mentorship program aims to support new Indigenous students in their transition to SFU. The FCAT Indigenous Peer Mentors will provide a safe, fun, and welcoming introduction to university life by sharing their knowledge about university life and resources. Mentors will be matched with new students and connect with them regularly virtually and through in-person activities. Mentors will each coordinate one social event for Indigenous students. They will also participate in select recruitment activities and attend events such as Welcome Day and campus tours.
More HERE.
Helten's Live Wires
SCA alumnus Rachel Helten will be presenting Live Wires, a new work-in-progress, as part of Live Wires: Performing Arts Collaborative Residency Performance on June 9 & 10, 2022, at 7:30 PM at the Eighth & Eighth Creative Spaces (735 Eighth St, New Westminster, BC). More HERE.