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Institutions by Artists: The Convention
October 12 – 14, 2012
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Institutions by Artists is a three day, international event that evaluates and activates the performance and promise of contemporary artist-run centres and initiatives.

Convening a world congress of artists, curators, critics, and academics, Institutions by Artists will deliberate, explore, and advance the common interests of artist-run centres, collectives, and cultures, creating a catalyst for new as well as divergent assessments and perspectives on such phenomena today. Using experimental formats, performative frameworks, and participatory vehicles, the three day series of events is designed to challenge and generate new thinking about artist-run initiatives globally, examining many dimensions whether urban or rural, fixed or mobile, and local or regional, among others. Inspired by the many artists wrestling creatively with building, using, shaping, and deploying institutions by artists,we will explore economies of exchange and knowledge; institutional time and space; as well as intimate and professional networks, among other critical interrogations.

Throughout the Institutions by Artists week, artist-run centres will present special projects that link to the themes of the Convention. From internet art pioneers, to grassroots cinema collectives, to media pirates and institutional revisionists, this series of presentations will invite and engage the public to meet visiting artists, and to examine the many phenomena impacting and defining artist-run institutions globally.

Among the Convention’s experimental tactics are re-enactments of key histories from the annals of artist-run culture, radical distributions of printed matter, the re-purposing of data and systems, as well as DIY models of education, which ultimately support an in-depth examination of the innovative, critical, and irreverent spirit of artist-run cultures and initiatives.

Institutions by Artists is organized by the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres (PAARC), Fillip, and the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference / La Conférence des collectifs et des centres d’artistes autogérés (ARCA).

Oct. 12 Morning: Intitutional Times: Facts & Fictions
Oct. 12 Afternoon: Intimate Institutions
Oct. 12 Evening: Keynote Debates

Oct. 13 Morning: States & Markets
Oct. 13 Afternoon: Promises & Practices

Oct. 14 Afternoon: Erehwon / Nowhere

Pamphlet(pdf.)

Presenting Partners:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts
Goethe Institut
Consulat général de France à Vancouver
Consulado-Geral do Brasil em Vancouver
Audain Gallery, SFU Woodward’s
Contemporary Art Gallery
Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

Funding Partners:
Canada Council for the Arts
Heritage Canada Languages Support Program
British Columbia Arts Council
City of Vancouver
Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University Library

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Speakers

Mounira al Solh (Lebanon)
Chumpon & Chantawipa Apisuk (Thailand)
Matei Bejenaru (Romania)
Anne Bertrand (Canada)
Vincent Bonin (Canada)
AA Bronson (Canada/USA)
Tania Bruguera (Cuba/USA)
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza (United Kingdom)
Jennifer Cane and Al Razutis (Canada)
Fulvia Carnevale & James Thornhill (France)
Biljana Ciric (China)
Christopher Cozier (Trinidad)
Tim Dallett and Adam Kelly (Canada)
Jeff Derksen (Canada)
Sean Dockray (USA)
Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar (United Kingdom)
Dirk Fleischmann (Germany)
Andrea Francke (United Kingdom)
Corinn Gerber (Canada)
Bastien Gilbert (Canada)
Sam Gould (USA)
Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet (France)
Candice Hopkins (Canada)
Jakob Jakobsen (Denmark)
Marie-Josée Jean and “Walter Benjamin” (Canada and Former Yugoslavia)
Ola Khalidi and Diala Khasawinh (Jordan)
Urs Lehni (Switzerand)
Olia Lialina (Russia)
Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell (Canada)
Jaleh Mansoor (Canada/USA)
Gabriel Menotti (Brazil)
Jonathan Middleton (Canada)
Gabi Ngcobo (South Africa)
John O'Brian (Canada)
Isabelle Pauwels (Canada)
Peta Rake (Australia)
Patricia Reed (Canada/Germany)
Scott Rogers and Justin Patterson (Canada)
Gregory Sholette (USA)
Hito Steyerl (Germany)
Pelin Tan (USA)
Claire Tancons (USA)
Anton Vidokle (USA)
Eva Weinmayr (Germany)
Pauline J. Yao (China)

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