Part 1: SFU Gallery, Burnaby, JAN 15 \u2013 FEB 28, 2015
\nPart 2: Audain Gallery, Vancouver, JAN 15 \u2013 FEB 28, 2015
\nPart 3: SFU Gallery, Burnaby, MAR 21 \u2013 MAY 15, 2015
\nPart 4: Audain Gallery, Vancouver, MAR 19 \u2013 MAR 28, 2015<\/p>\n
Geometry of Knowing<\/i> is a group exhibition that investigates approaches to the acquisition of knowledge in the full mind-body-spirit sense of intelligence. Organized in four parts and presented across two galleries located in a post-secondary pedagogical institution, the objective of the project is to investigate the way in which artists engage tactics of fieldwork, embodiment and materiality in a manner that reveals or instigates a process of knowing<\/i>. In this moment of increasing standardization and specialization regarding how people learn, art is a space for innovative thinking and experimentation outside given frameworks.<\/p>\n
Many works in the exhibition engage hybrid forms of fieldwork, borrowing methodologies and tools from anthropology, hunting, marine navigation, chemistry, herbology and horticulture. For example, Kika Thorne\u2019s new sculptural work, The Question of a Hunch<\/i>, extends her ongoing interests in geometry, the visible spectrum and magnetism as a field upon which to project questions regarding chemical composition and its political ramifications.<\/p>\n
Knowing through embodiment calls into play the geometry of sense perception, <\/i>communication and collaboration between artists and physical enactments. For example, Carole Itter\u2019s 1979 photographic series, Euclid<\/i>, documents musician Al Neil tracing Euclidean geometric theorems in the sand at Cates Park in North Vancouver. These images were projected as part of a collaborative live performance with Al Neil on piano, used on Neil\u2019s Fog and Boot<\/i> album cover, as well as existing as photographic works in their own right.<\/p>\n
Manipulating materials, forms and images is a fundamental aspect of artistic production and transfigures how we experience, interpret and know the world. Camille Henrot\u2019s 2011 video, The Strife of Love in a Dream<\/i>, for example, composes a visual atlas of strategies to conquer anxiety and fear through mythology, medicine, religion, art, ritual and tourism.<\/p>\n
At SFU Galleries, we understand the university as a site of knowledge production, dissemination and acquisition. Its architecture is spatial and social, formalizing communal inquiry, contemplation, critique and invention. Situated in this architecture, the exhibition imagines the open geometry of the gallery as a context to re-examine how the visual and material languages of contemporary art generate experiential, emotional, physical, environmental and intuitive intelligence. The exhibition Geometry of Knowing<\/i> explores emerging and reclaimed forms of knowledge as tools to frame how artists consider ways of witnessing, being with, querying and generating.<\/p>\n
The exhibition includes work by over thirty Canadian and international artists across the first three parts, including works from the SFU Art Collection. The fourth component is constituted as an SFU School for Contemporary Arts visual arts course in which students respond to the exhibition\u2019s theme through archival research.<\/p>\n
Part 1:<\/b> Derya Akay, Eli Bornowsky, Neil Campbell, Julia Feyrer, Lawren Harris, Roy Kiyooka, Michael Morris, Gordon Smith, Frank Stella, Takao Tanabe. Part 2:<\/b> Abraham Cruzvillegas, Michael Drebert, Jimmie Durham, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Sandra Hanson, Camille Henrot, Dawn Johnston, Brian Jungen, David MacWilliam, N.E. Thing Co., Kara Uzelman, Brent Wadden. Part 3:<\/b> Josef Albers, BC Binning, Lee Bontecou, Brian Fisher, Carole Itter, Devon Knowles, Evan Lee, Bruce Nauman, Hannah Rickards, Kika Thorne, Brent Wadden. Part 4:<\/b> Students from the SCA<\/p>\n
Curated by Amy Kazymerchyk and Melanie O\u2019Brian. Supported by a Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>\n
Opening Reception and event with Jeneen Frei Njootli and Kara Uzelman<\/b>
\nWednesday, JAN 14, 2015, 7pm
\nAudain Gallery<\/p>\n
Jeneen Frei Njootli will perform with handmade instruments crafted from female vadzaih (caribou) that embrace and disrupt the hybridity of the Athabascan fiddle in Vuntut Gwitchin culture. Kara Uzelman will provide hospitality with brews that she grew and wildcrafted in Saskatchewan following research into traditions of medicinal fermentation and psychotropic experimentation at the University of Regina.<\/p>\n
Event with Derya Akay and Julia Feyrer<\/b>
\nSunday, FEB 15, 2015, 12pm
\nSFU Gallery<\/p>\n
A walk, talk, soil to plow, sow, drink and wait…<\/i> will explore cycles of harvest and hospitality with Derya Akay and Julia Feyrer in relationship to their works in the exhibition.<\/p>\n
Opening Reception: SFU Visual Art 3rd Year Student Exhibition<\/b>
\nWednesday, MAR 18, 2015, 7pm
\nAudain Gallery<\/p>\n
Exhibition presented by 3rd Year SFU Visual Arts students. Details to come.<\/p>\n
Event with Kika Thorne<\/b>
\nSaturday MAR 21, 2015, 12pm
\nSFU Gallery\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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Extending from her work in the exhibition, Kika Thorne will facilitate a conversation with a scientist and a climate activist on the process of creating a carbon dioxide filter.\u00a0Whether the process is one of reality or fantasy, the conversation considers engineering and activism in a long line of artistic gestures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Geometry of Knowing Part 1: SFU Gallery, Burnaby, JAN 15 \u2013 FEB 28, 2015 Part 2: Audain Gallery, Vancouver, JAN 15 \u2013 FEB 28, 2015 Part 3: SFU Gallery, Burnaby, MAR 21 \u2013 MAY 15, 2015 Part 4: Audain Gallery, Vancouver, MAR 19 \u2013 MAR 28, 2015 Geometry of Knowing is a group exhibition that … Continue reading Exhibition: Geometry of Knowing, SFU Galleries<\/span>