46th Annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium at University of British Columbia

its being is in it alone is presented as a recording for this gallery exhibition. Gallery hours 12-4pm Monday-Friday.

The 46th Annual UBC AHVA Symposium and Exhibition Committee presents MakeShift: handmade, homemade, and remade productions, a processing of collectively shared anxieties about the rise of visualizations generated with artificial intelligence technology and various automated messaging systems. Co-chaired by graduate students Morgan Sears-Williams, Maya Rodrigo-Abdi, Laney Agodon, and Gulmehar Dhillon, this year’s event proposes a material-focused and making-oriented shift in the ways in which we engage with art. MakeShift will make space for further dialogue concerning artistic practices that work to resist commodification, gendered divisions of labour, and other/ed objects found in our materialist dialectic.

Following graduate student paper presentations, an endnote presentation led by poet, memoirist, and interdisciplinary artist Jane Wong (Western Washington University) will commence at 4:00 pm. This talk will feature a collaborative workshop, Seaweed Song: Making and Remaking Poetry, where participants will weave a community book out of seaweed, thread, and poetry. Wong will also share work from her 2019 exhibition at Frye Art Museum, After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly, and speak to the poetics of nourishment, re-envisioning form across mediums, process-based play, and honouring the labour of her family.

Full schedule of events here.