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New Video Animation by Vancouver Artist Diyan Achjadi

Girl in the City, a public art project by Diyan Achjadi, premiers on the screens at Robson and Granville

The City of Vancouver Public Art Program announces a new video animation by Vancouver artist Diyan Achjadi, currently screening on the double outdoor screens, operated by CoreVision, at the NE corner of Robson and Granville Streets. The four segments of the video narrative are interspersed with advertising content on the screens.

In these animations, Achjadi’s avatar “Girl” encounters the landmarks of Vancouver and interacts with them. As she picks them up, they become a miniature collection of objects. After landing in Vancouver, Girl visits the Harbour Centre Tower, the Gastown Steam Clock, Gassy Jack’s statue and Science World.

“I am interested in how certain human-made structures can function as stand-ins for a city. As icons, they become emblematic of a place. They appear and reappear in personal photographs, are reproduced as small plastic objects sold in tourist gift-shops and are pictured in mass-produced postcards. These items become souvenirs, tokens of remembrance – in this case of an experience of a place — that are meant to be removed from the original location and moment of experience, in order to be collected, shared, or circulated.”

Diyan Achjadi is an associate professor in the Faculty of Visual art + Material Practices at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (1993) and an MFA in Print Media from Concordia University (2002). Recent exhibitions include Sugar Bombs with Brendan Tang at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, traveling to Kamloops Art Gallery and Centre MAI, Montreal, and solo exhibitions at Oboro Gallery, Montreal, Richmond Art Gallery and The Window Project Victoria. Achjadi has a forthcoming public art project at Aberdeen Station in Richmond.

Girl in the City (2011) is commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program with support of Vancouver 125 and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Three other 2-dimensional public artworks currently in the downtown core are:

  • Contingent Matters, six banners by Raymond Boisjoly at the Central Branch of Vancouver Public Library
  • Lines in architecture and art, a photomural by Arabella Campbell at the Canada Line Vancouver City Centre Station.
  • News of the Whole World by Holly Ward on THE WALL at the CBC plaza, Hamilton Street.

These projects are part a growing number of platforms for public art supported by Vancouver’s Public Art Program. Details about the program can be found at vancouver.ca/publicart. The Public Art Program has facilitated over a hundred projects in the past ten years, spanning large-scale permanent installations, design-team collaborations and artist-initiated artworks.

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Vancouver Sun (Culture Seen): Public Art: New Diyan Achjadi VIdeo at Robson and Granville

Posted on: March 16th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Marking 125 historic sites that matter to Vancouverites

Places That Matter

Marking 125 historic sites that matter to Vancouverites

Can you think of people, places and events that have shaped Vancouver? The Vancouver Heritage Foundation is asking Vancouverites to get involved in nominating 125 sites - Places That Matter - where plaques will be mounted commemorating people, places and events that helped to shape our city.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation (VHF) is asking the public to identify and mark 125 sites commemorating historic people, places and events that have shaped the city as a way to celebrate Vancouver’s 125th anniversary this year. The nominations are open until April 6 and a special event will be held at the downtown branch of the Vancouver Public Library on Saturday, February 26, 2011 to spur on the public nomination process:

Vancouver Heritage Foundation
Places That Matter - Public Nomination Day
Saturday. February 26, 2011
10 am – 4 pm
Vancouver Public Library (VPL) entrance concourse, 350 West Georgia Street (downtown)

This event will be a great opportunity to ask questions, view the sites nominated so far and add your own suggestions to the Vancouver map. VHF staff and volunteers will be on-site and there will be maps of the city where people can mark their places, computers with wifi, nomination forms, and if you have an image of your site you will have the opportunity to upload your nomination on the spot.

Around the world plaques are used to animate public spaces, create points of interaction for pedestrians, and provide education to locals and tourists. Today these plaques make use of smart phone technology to link to more information.

PROJECT TIMELINE
• Nominations for Places That Matter can be made online at www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org from February 1st to March 15th.
• From March 16th, until April 6th (The City’s 125th birthday) the public will be able to vote, on the same website, for their favourite nominated sites.
• A Site Selection Committee, comprised of a diverse group of local historians, artists, students, heritage consultants, writers and educators, will select the final 125 plaque sites to be marked.
• Over the summer the sites will be researched, and the plaque text will be written.
• In the fall the plaques will be manufactured locally and installed. Along with the plaques the VHF will launch a website mapping the locations and text of the plaques.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation is an award-winning not-for-profit organization dedicated to education, public awareness and granting programs that develop a culture in the city that is supportive of the repair, rehabilitation and reuse of older buildings. For more information visit www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org.

For information call Diane Switzer at the VHF at 604.264.9642 [email protected]

Posted on: February 24th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference


Date: October 19-22, 2011
Location: Segal Building (500 Granville Street); SFU Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street); and SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings Street)
Website: v125pc.com

The Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference is a four-day poetry conference that will take place from October 19-22, 2011. It is presented in partnership with the Office of the Poet Laureate of the City of Vancouver, The City of Vancouver, Simon Fraser University’s Writing and Publishing Program, The Vancouver International Writers Festival, The Vancouver Public Library and the Listel Hotel. Join over 95 poets for a landmark exchange of poetry and poetics as Vancouver celebrates its 125th birthday with the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference. Whether you are an academic, an established poet, an aspiring poet or simply a lover of poetry, this conference is your chance to hear and interact with some of the finest poets writing in Canada today.

Listen to a podcast about the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference featuring Brad Cran, Vancouver’s Poet Laureate, in conversation with Joseph Planta.

Browse the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference schedule, the poets, the reading list and register here.

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News Release: “Vancouver’s anniversary celebrations continue with the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference”

The Globe and Mail: “Vancouver to hold major poetry conference”

National Post: “Vancouver to host huge Canadian poetry conference”

Georgia Straight: Poet laureate Brad Cran announces the ambitious Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference

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Posted on: January 16th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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