July 5, 2011
4:00 p.m. | UBC Liu Institute Gallery, 6476 North West Marine Drive
Panelists:
- STUART POYNTZ, Assistant Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University.
- CAMYAR CHAICHIAN, Arts Coordinator, City of Richmond.
- KYLA MALLETT, Assistant Professor/Artist, Faculty of Culture + Community, Emily Carr University.
In these ‘New Times’, marked by spectacle, surveillance, and the intense commodification of everyday life, visual culture acts as interlocutor in the changing city. The “Ab/Objection” panel is a companion event to the opening of a critical, counter-conventional documentary photo exhibit of urban working class ‘girl’ culture. Panelists in this event, including academics and artists, will introduce the audience to existing critical conversations on the place of the visual in the urban landscape – particularly as it is shaped and transformed by youth cultural practices.
- How do youth consciously symbolize the social spaces in which they find themselves?
- How do youth challenge those constraints that reproduce class, gender, and racialized forms of oppression in the city?
- What is the role of art as transformative political praxis?
All ages and levels of familiarity with the subject are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Presented by CCIE and the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education.