This series of talks invites cultural and critical producers to present thoughts and ideas rooted in their own interests and practices, and invites audiences to join in the conversations that will explore relevant contemporary issues, theories, ideas and culture. Speakers to date include artists; Liz Magor, Ian Wallace, Jin-me Yoon, Peter Gazendam, Amber Frid-Jimenez and Neil Campbell; writers, historians and professors Colin Browne, Gareth James, Nicky Levell, Catherine Soussloff, Todd Falkowsky, Carla Nappi, Keith Wallace, Chris Lee, Am Johal, Bill Pechet, Dominic McIver Lopes and Iglika Ivanova.

Feedback Series Talks

This series of talks are by contemporary international artists who have participated in exhibitions or programming at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Talks took place either at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design or SFU Woodward's, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver. 



Artist Talks

Curator Talks

Recordings of artist talks, music, performances, discussions and workshops held at the Burrard Marina Field House in Vancouver. The Field House is an off-site artist residency space and community hub organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery. Running parallel to the residency program is an ongoing series of public events for all ages. The Field House Studio Residency Program is generously supported by the Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver. http://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/exhibitions/burrard-marina-field-house/

Burrard Marina Field House Recordings

Dhrupad vocalist Harkeerat Mangat and Tabla drummer Sunny Matharu perform at the Burrard Marina Field House, Vancouver, Wednesday August 14. The event was a launch for the 2013 Summer issue of FUSE magazine.

Performance | Harkeerat Mangat and Sunny Matharu

English Audio Guide | Diane Severin Nguyen

English Audio Guide | Maureen Gruben

English Audio Guide | Rochelle Goldberg

English Audio Guide | Zoe Leonard

English Audio Guide | Kablusiak

English Audio Guide | Divya Mehra

Friday, April 10, 2015

In conjunction with the Canadian Art Foundation Vancouver Gallery Hop, the CAG hosted a talk by Canadian Art associate editor David Balzer based on his latest book 'Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else'.

David Balzer is a Toronto-based critic, editor and teacher. He has written for The Globe and Mail, Modern Painters, Camera Austria, artforum.com, The Believer and others, and is the author of two books, the short-fiction collection Contrivances (Joyland/ECW Press) and the non-fiction study 'Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else' (Coach House Press/Pluto Press).

Talk | David Balzer | Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else

Meriç Algün Ringborg
Wednesday, November 20, 2014, 7pm

Ringborg discusses her practice exploring the critical underpinning and key themes of her recent work and exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery.

Artist Talk | Meriç Algün Ringborg

English Audio Guide | Lindsay McIntyre

English Audio Guide | CFGNY

Sojourner Truth Parsons: Louise at the Contemporary Art Gallery

English Audio Guide | Sojourner Truth Parsons

Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan at the Contemporary Art Gallery

English Audio Guide | Charles Atlas

Andi Icaza-Largaespada discusses her exhibition '(untitled) a mountain bought but not yet named' at the Contemporary Art Gallery, July 13 – September 16, 2018.

Artist Talk | Andi Icaza-Largaespada

Artist Matthew Monahan gives an artist talk on his practice and on his exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. 

April 25, 2012 at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Presented in collaboration with Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Artist Talk | Matthew Monahan

Dominic McIver Lopes: Acquired Taste: What’s the Point?
Tuesday, March 12, 7pm - Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Dominic McIver Lopes is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at UBC, President of the American Society for Aesthetics, a member of the British Society of Aesthetics, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He is also co-editor (with Berys Gaut) of Wiley-Blackwell’s 'New Directions in Aesthetics'. His work focuses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic and epistemic value of pictures, and the ontology of art. He is working on two books entitled 'Beyond Art' and 'Four Arts of Photography'. Tonight he explores taste and suggests new ways of thinking about contemporary art practices.

This series invites cultural and critical producers to present thoughts and ideas rooted in their own interests and practices, and invites audiences to join in the conversations that will explore relevant contemporary issues, theories, ideas and culture.

Feedback Series | Dominic McIver Lopes: Acquired Taste - What's the point?

Bill Pechet: The Manners of Social Practises
Tuesday, January 15, 7 pm

Bill Pechet is a Lecturer in Practice in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UBC, with a special concern for the emerging manners of contemporary urban social practice. He also works independently an array of projects from strategic urban planning studies through to residential and retail design, cemeteries, set design, and art-in-public-places installations. Along with Stephanie Robb, Bill represented Canada in the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture with a witty critique of leisure culture called 'SweaterLodge'.

This series invites cultural and critical producers to present thoughts and ideas rooted in their own interests and practices, and invites audiences to join in the conversations that will explore relevant contemporary issues, theories, ideas and culture.

Feedback Series | Bill Pechet: The Manners of Social Practices

Liz Magor: Desire of the Individual
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Artist Liz Magor explores her current interests focusing on her experience with re-enactors, who perform a cycle of repetition in their quest to be affiliated with a larger group. Magor is an Associate Professor in Visual Arts at Emily Carr University, her sculptural work involves ordinary or familiar objects often refashioned. She has shown internationally at Documenta and at the Venice Biennale.

Feedback Series | Liz Magor: Desire of the Individual

Jin-me Yoon: The Void and Temporality
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Prompted by the exhibition of work by Nathan Coley, artist Jin-me Yoon will examine questions concerning identity, place and subjectivity in an accelerated globalized era in relation to her practice. These include the consequences for reconsidering power and ideas of progress, and the means for slowing down signification and extending temporality. What are the aesthetic, social and political implications of absence and the void as a paradoxical space ‘full’ with presence and necessary doubt?
Jin-me Yoon is a Professor of Visual Studies at Simon Fraser University and represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.


Feedback Series | Jin-me Yoon: The Void and Temporality

Catherine Soussloff: Death, Benjamin and Melancholy
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Renowned art historian and writer, former chair at UC Santa Cruz and the University of California, Catherine Soussloff is the former Head of the department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC, ignites a conversation drawing from the disciplines of historiography, theory and philosophy.


Feedback Series | Catherine Soussloff: Death, Benjamin and Melancholy

Romanian artist Ciprian Muresan discusses his work. Presented in collaboration with Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Artist Talk | Ciprian Muresan

Artist talk by German artist Josephine Meckseper, on the occasion of her exhibition, 'American Leg' at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Artist Talk | Josephine Meckseper

Artist Sarah Browne discusses her work with CAG Director Nigel Prince, at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Artist Talk | Sarah Browne

An in-conversation event with artists Ruti Sela + Maayan Amir & Sharon Hayes held at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Artist Talk | Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir with Sharon Hayes

Tuesday, June 18, 7 pm
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

Lisa Schmidt is a curator at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. She worked previously at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and with Ute Eskildsen at Museum Folkwang, Essen.

Her talk focused on her most recent exhibition, Das Kind, die Stadt und die Kunst (The Child, the City, and the Art), on view at the Schmela Haus of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen until 15 September, which examines the social and aesthetic implications of playgrounds by the Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck, with contemporary responses by artists Yto Barrada, Nils Norman and Gareth Moore.


Curator Talk | Lisa Schmidt

The Contemporary Art Gallery is a non-profit public art gallery dedicated to the research, exhibition, education and documentation of contemporary visual art as it is practiced locally through to internationally. It aspires to generate significant audiences for its innovative and diverse programmes through free access and a profile that is international in scope.

This audio stream features talks, soundworks, panel discussions and interviews with international contemporary artists that relate to the program of the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Contemporary Art Gallery, 555 Nelson Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 6R5. Tel# 1 604 681 2700. cagvancouver.org

Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

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