Coming Soon, Kathy Slade
Is Everything Going to be Alright?
June 9– September 21, 2010
In the Hastings Street window of the Audain Gallery, Vancouver artist and SFU alumna Kathy Slade asks the question, Is Everything Going to Be Alright?. Slade's window project concludes the initial public art project entitled Coming Soon for the new Audain Gallery, located in the Woodward's development in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Four visual artists who are SFU Alumni have been commissioned to create new site-specific public art works. The works in this provocative series address the qualities of Vancouver's Downtown East Side, the neighbourhood and context of the new location of Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts. In January, the first work by Ken Lum, I said No was shown in the Hastings Street windows of the Audain Gallery before the official opening of SFU Woodward's. As an extension of the window project into another medium, and as a public interface for the Audain Gallery, Lorna Brown and Jamie Hilder have created projects specifically designed for the internet on the Audain Gallery’s website. Coming Soon highlights the Audain Gallery's commitment to art in the public sphere that addresses the present and history of Vancouver.
Recent Events
Public Symposium
Coming Soon: The Expectations of Art in the Public Sphere
As part of the Coming Soon project, a public symposium was held at the Audain Gallery on Saturday, January 23, 2010.The symposium's aim was to address questions regarding the different, and often competing, public and artistic expectations of art in the public sphere and art as a public discourse. Two panel discussions with artists, curators, and cultural critics opened these issues: Lorna Brown (CA), Jamie Hilder (CA), Am Johal (CA, moderator), Makiko Hara (CA), Ken Lum (CA), Bik Van Der Pol (NL), Jeff Derksen (CA, moderator) and others.
