SCA | Quick News | May 20, 2022
Yoon wins!
The SCA's Jin-me Yoon has won the 2022 Scotiabank Photography Award! For winning, she receives a "$50,000 cash prize, a solo Primary Exhibition during the 2023 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, and a published book of her work distributed worldwide by renowned art book publisher, Steidl." Congratulations, Jin-me! More HERE.
Boisjoly's From age to age, as its shape slowly unravelled
The SCA's Raymond Boisjoly is presenting the exhibition From age to age, as its shape slowly unravelled at the Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas St W) from May 14 – November 6, 2022, as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. More HERE.
Stream Community Making and Black Flourishing Through the Scarborough Charter
Watch the entire proceedings of Community Making and Black Flourishing Through the Scarborough Charter, co-presented by SFU and UBC, which took place May 14, 2022, and included the panel, "Negotiating for Black Flourishing within Academic Institutions," moderated by the SCA's Dr. Henry Daniel. Watch HERE.
Pavsek in Utah
The SCA's Christopher Pavsek will be doing a residency this summer at the Taft-Nicholson Center for the Humanities of the University of Utah, located in the Centennial Valley of southwestern Montana, where he'll be working on a short experimental documentary about the Valley and taking photographs.
Woyno Rodriguez does Morag, You're A Long Time Deid
The World Premiere of Claire Love Wilson & Peter Lorenz's Morag, You're A Long Time Deid, running June 10 – 19, 2022, at The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave), presented in association With Touchstone Theatre, features the SCA's Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez on Set & Lighting Design. More HERE.
Marks on the radio and in The Walrus
The SCA's Laura Marks was on Edmonton's 630 CHED and Calgary's 770 CHQR on May 17, 2022, to talk to with host Shaye Ganam about the carbon footprint of the Internet. Marks also discussed the carbon footprint of the Internet in The Walrus' "ask an expert" column. Read it HERE.
SCA in Listening to Pictures
SCA folks – Lucien Durey, Allyson Clay, Brady Cranfield, Kathy Slade, Ken Lum, Laiwan, and Jin-me Yoon – are included in SFU Galleries's Listening to Pictures: Artists on the SFU Art Collection podcast / radio / mail art project, running June 16 – August 18, 2022. More HERE.
Adler in Gem-like
The SCA's Barbara Adler is one of the collaborators, along with Stéphanie Cyr and Kiera Hill, in Lesley Telford and Inverso Productions' Gem-like, which is having its premiere from May 25 – 28, 2022, at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The show also includes a screening of a "short film version" of Inverso Productions' Spooky Action, filmed by David Cooper and featuring Stéphanie Cyr, Eden Solomon, text by Adler, and music by James Meger. More HERE.
Clark talks World Making and Extraction
The SCA's Joe Clark gave a work-in-progress talk, World Making and Extraction: Eco-Materialist Histories of Forestry and Film in Canada, on Friday, May 20, 2022, as part of the NorthWest Media Commons.
Davachi, Rahi, and Maier
Upcoming! A solo and augmented pipe organ show with Sarah Davachi, SCA alumnus George Rahi, and the SCA's Stefan Maier on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at 8:00 PM, plus an artist chat at 7:15 PM, all at the Pacific Spirit United Church (2195 W 45th Avenue). Presented by the good folks at Vancouver New Music. More HERE.
Apply to The Couch
SCA alumnus 2022 CAG Prize winners Debbie C and Sena Cleave's project The Couch is seeking submissions of small-scale art objects under the theme of Just Out of Reach, to be presented "in a living room" from July 15 – 22 as part of Unit/Pitt Society for Art & Critical Awareness' Wrong Wave Festival 2022. Submissions are due July 1! More HERE.
Durey sings
SCA alumnus Lucien Durey is performing as part of Veda Hille's Beach Practice in Concert on June 4, 2022, at 8:00 PM at The Cultch's Historic Theatre (1895 Venables St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Sum's Different Than Before
Watch the video for SCA alumnus Amanda Sum's Different Than Before, directed by Mayumi Yoshida. Watch it HERE.
Ariaratnam's Sonic Divination
SCA alumnus Matthew Ariaratnam's Sonic Divination is out now. Listen HERE.
Enquist inThroe
SCA alumnus Eowynn Enquist is performing in this artist-in-residence showing of Corporeal Imago's Throe on Wednesday June 1, 2022, at 5:00 PM at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, presented by The Dance Centre. More HERE.
SCA in rEvolver
Upintheair Theatre's 2022 rEvolver Festival has good SCA alumni representation, both on and off stage: including Torien Cafferata in Controller; Arthi Chandra, Howard Dai, Hannah Meyers, and Montserrat Videla Samper in Passenger Seat; sound design support for Holy Moly by Stefan Nazarevich; Sena Cagla, Howard Dai, Alexa Fraser, Evan Medd, Hannah Meyers, Brian Postalian, Pascal Reiners, Amanda Sum, Meagan Woods, Montserrat Videla Samper, Christian Ching, and Stefan Nazarevich in Rumble Theatre's New Societies; and Pedro Chamale and Derek Chan as participants in Real Talks. Check out the full schedule HERE.
The Biting School in Here For Now vol. 3
Performing with SCA alumnus Pegah Tabassinejad, The Biting School, which is SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour and his brother Arash Khakpour, are part of Here For Now vol. 3 on May 20 & 21, 2022, with shows at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM and 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM (plus a "Social Hour" from 11:00 PM – 12:00 AM) at Slice Next Door (1636 Venables St., Vancouver). Presented by Here For Now. Tickets HERE.
Kotowich and Maddock in Dance Central
SCA alumnus Jeanette Kotowich is interviewed by Shanny Rann and SCA alumnus Rachel Maddock talks with Rianne Švelnis about Dumb Instrument Dance's Symbiotic Forms in the Spring issue of The Dance Centre's Dance Central magazine. Read it online HERE.
Kanagawa in Yellow Fever
SCA alumnus Hiro Kanagawa is the lead in the Firehall Arts Centre's upcoming presentation of Rick Shiomi's Yellow Fever, running May 28 – June 12, 2022. More HERE.
TANZ online
Programing from the TANZ Bremen Dance Festival, which ran May 4 – 15, 2022, including SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman's Container, featuring dance artist Andrea Peña, and Goodman and Caroline Shaw's Graveyards and Gardens, goes live online on June 1. More HERE.
Nieto's Impermanent Flower
New Works is presenting SCA MFA student Salome Nieto's Impermanent Flower from May 27 – 28, 2022, at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. More HERE.
Sound on the cover
Artwork by SCA alumnus Michelle Sound is going to be the cover for Billy-Ray Belcourt's upcoming book A Minor Chorus. More HERE.
Yassine and D'Anunciação in interplay_2022
SCA alumnus Deanna Peters has announced the artists for interplay_2022, including SCA alumni Ghinwa Yassine and Luciana Freire D'Anunciação. More HERE.
Yassine and Evans talk at Deer Lake
SCA alumni Ghinwa Yassine and Tasha Faye Evans are part of a public conversation on Sunday, May 29, 2022, with Anna Pidgorna as part of their Deer Lake Residency. RSVP to air@burnaby.ca.
Kamikaze Nurse reviewed and playing
Stimuloso, the new record by SCA alumnus Casey Wei's rock group Kamikaze Nurse, out now on Mint Records, gets reviewed in the The Georgia Straight, Post-Trash, and Stereogun. Also, Kamikaze Nurse are having an "album release and tour kick off" show at Red Gate Arts Society on June 9, 2022, at 8:00 PM. More HERE.
Congratulations, Dai, Fukumura, and Postalian!
Congratulations to SCA alumni Howard Dai, June Fukumura, and Brian Postalian, who are among the 21 recipients of the 2022 Bill Millerd Artist Fund, which "was named for and established by the Arts Club’s Artistic Director Emeritus." More HERE.
Chan and Calderon talk
The Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop is presenting a public conversation with Carolyn Nakagawa and SCA alumni Derek Chan and Davey Samuel Calderon on May 28, 2022, at 1:00 PM via Zoom. RSVP HERE.
Silverfox's RRR progress
Head over to the page dedicated to SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox's Remote Research Residency on the Arts Assembly site to check in on her ongoing work. More HERE.
Bhullar, Debbie C, and Cleave talk the materiality of the digital
Read a quick conversation between SCA alumni Kaila Bhullar, Debbie C, and Sena Cleave about "the materiality of the digital," presented in support of Digital Interventions – Part I: Heterotopias, running May 10 – July 07, 2022, at Massy Arts Society, which includes Bhullar, Debbie C, and Cleave, as well as SCA alumni kathy feng, Vitória Monteiro, Hân Phạm, and Paige Smith. Read it HERE.
Selfie in FOLDA
SCA alumni Anthony Lee (Director), Jamie Sweeney (Production Manager), Hans Hsieh (Assistant Stage Manager), and Colin Willscroft (Assistant Sound Designer), and current SCA students Claudia Chan (Stage Manager), Megan Lane (Production Designer), and June Hsu (Sound Designer) are all involved in the production of Christine Quintana's Selfie, running June 9 – 11, 2022, presented as part of Spiderwebshow's Festival of Live Digital Art. More HERE.
withintensions' Technology
withintensions, the monthly art mag by SCA alumni, is calling for submissions for their next issue on the theme of Technology. Deadline is May 27, 2022. Follow them on Instagram for more.