[spectre] Rearranging Desires: Curating the ‘Other' Within

[ayesha hameed]

Rearranging Desires: Curating the 'Other' Within

Exhibition: October 6 – 31, 2008

Vernissage : October 17, 6-8pm

Fashion show of artist Mary Sui Yee Wong's Yellow Apparel, modelled
and performed by Choeur Maha directed by Kathy Kennedy will take place
during the opening

Rearranging Desires focuses on the presentation, reading and
interpretation of culturally-specific work in a postcolonial context
through the exhibition of art installations by four Montreal-based
Asian-Canadian artists – Ayesha Hameed, Karen Tam, Chih-Chien Wang and
Mary Sui Yee Wong. Organized by guest curator, Alice Ming Wai Jim,
with art history graduate students, the Rearranging Desires project is
accompanied by a symposium, a special music event, catalogue
publication, and website with artist interviews and critical essays.



Symposium: Rearranging Desires: About Culturally-Specific Work

Date: October 18, 2008, 9:45am-6:00pm
Keynote: Jamelie Hassan, award-winning visual artist and curator based
in London, Ontario
Location: York Auditorium, EV-1.605, Concordia University, 1515
Ste-Catherine St., W.

Bringing together over twenty scholars, educators, activists, writers
and artists from different disciplines, the one-day symposium seeks to
address the broad range of concerns about culturally-specific work in
North America and the specific issues affecting the context of this
particular project being presented in Québec.

The program opens with the 2008 Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture by
award-winning visual artist and independent curator, Jamelie Hassan,
as the keynote address for the symposium. This will be followed by
panel discussions on questioning cultural authenticity and difference
in the classroom, and an artist roundtable.

For symposium program, please click here.


Special Music Event: SPEAK OUT!
Performances by: hip hop artist Tu Three (23) and his DJ and punk band
Without Will Date: October 26, 8pm, United Nations Day Weekend
Location: Le Caigibi, 5490 boul. St-Laurent (corner St-Viateur, Bus 55)

For more info, please contact: amberberson at yahoo.ca

Initiated and presented by art history graduate students, this fun and
provocative night of socially-engaged music performances by hip hop
artist Tu Three (23) and his DJ and punk band Without Will has been
organized to promote community discussion about issues of cultural
tolerance in Quebec in acknowledgment of the one-year anniversary of
the beginnings of the Reasonable Accommodation hearings.


All events are free and open to the public.





The Rearranging Desires project is made possible by the generous
support of The Power Corporation of Canada; Diane and Salvatore
Guerrera and family; The Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for
Studies in Canadian Art, the Department of Art History and the Faculty
of Fine Arts, Concordia University; the Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter
Memorial Fund; QPIRG; Canada Council for the Arts; and other partners.

Rearranging Desires is presented concurrently with the exhibition in
the FOFA Gallery vitrine, Crossing Cultures: Images of Norman Bethune
in China, curated by Dr. Catherine Mackenzie, and the symposium Norman
Bethune and Visual Culture(s), as part of the City of Montreal's
Hommage à Norman Bethune.


For more information, please email Alice Ming Wai Jim, ajim at alcor.concordia.ca.