Date: November 11, 2011
Location: Helen Pitt Gallery (new location TBA)
Website: www.helenpittgallery.org

Ill Repute is a critical reflection upon the checkered history of one of Vancouver’s oldest artist-run centres, the Helen Pitt Gallery. The goal of the project is to unearth and explore the stories behind the schisms, outrages and conflicts during the institution’s 35-year contribution to Vancouver culture. Emerging artists and writers will create works and publications that respond to the gallery’s pivotal moments that helped foster its “bad reputation,” including its role as a site for punk concerts, exhibitions that attracted police attention and/or public outrage, and other occurrences which may have been tactfully omitted from conventional histories.

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.