[Bcma-l] Archive City: Portraits of Lulu Island, Opening at RAG July 17 at 7pm.

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:00:17 -0700

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*Archive City: Portraits of Lulu Island*
*Lois Klassen, Cindy Mochizuki, Jaimie Robson*
*July 17 -- August 31, 2008*

Opening Reception: Thursday July 17, 7:00pm
Participating artists will be in attendance. Everyone is welcome.
Exhibition runs until August 31, 2008

Richmond Art Gallery will host a new project by Archive City, entitled 
Portraits of Lulu Island.  Archive City, a fictional memory company is 
composed of three Vancouver based artists, Cindy Mochizuki, Lois 
Klassen, and Jaimie Robson. Portraits of Lulu Island is a memory archive 
comprised of stories, images, ephemera, tracings , and other research 
materials related to Lulu Island. The project will engage the Archive 
City members in research and collection of various facts and myths about 
Lulu Island, where the City of Richmond is situated.

Archive City is interested in exploring how memories of a place are 
preserved and archived. By mimicking bureaucratic procedures and 
presentation methods, such as creating official-looking documents and an 
office setting in the gallery, the group members seek to expose the 
processes involved in translating traces of memory into concrete 
documents preserved in an archival system.

The memory collection agency  Archive City explores how cultural memory 
becomes materialized in collections and archives by creating archival 
boxes which contain the memories of Richmond residents they have 
interviewed in the form of dioramas. They invite the public to 
contribute facts/truths, fictions/speculations, and histories about the 
Richmond area by setting up a fictional office at Richmond Art 
Gallery where they will hold memory seminars and present materials 
accumulated during the memory collection process.

To book an appointment in advance contact Nan Capogna at RAG by phone at 
247.8311, or at ncapogna@richmond.ca <mailto:ncapogna@richmond.ca>. 
 Archive City Memory Seminar Dates: Every Thursday in July & August from 
11am - 1pm and on Saturday, July 26 and Saturday August 23, from 11am - 
1pm.

Archive City website at www.archivecity.net <http://www.archivecity.net/>

Gallery hours are 10:00am to 6:00pm from Monday to Friday and 10:00am to 
5:00pm on Saturday & Sunday. For updated information on events and 
programming, visit the website at www.richmondartgallery.org 
<http://www.richmondartgallery.org/>

The RAG is operated by the Richmond Art Gallery Association and is the 
City of Richmond's Public Contemporary Art Gallery under the auspices of 
the Office of Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services. The RAG receives 
generous and ongoing financial support from the City of Richmond, the BC 
Arts Council, the BC Gaming Commission and the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Contact the RAG for digital images or other requests at:

*Paula Hickey*
*Gallery Assistant*

*Richmond Art Gallery*
180-7700 Minoru Gate

Richmond V6Y 1R9

t. 604.247.8312

gallery@richmond.ca

www.richmondartgallery.org <http://www.richmondartgallery.org/>
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Archive
City: Portraits of Lulu Island<u1:p></u1:p> <o:p></o:p>
 
Lois
Klassen, Cindy Mochizuki, Jaimie Robson<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
July 17
&#8211; August 31, 2008<o:p></o:p>
 
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Opening
Reception: Thursday July 17, 7:00pm<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
Participating
artists will be in attendance. Everyone is welcome.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
Exhibition
runs until August 31, 2008<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
&nbsp;<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
Richmond
Art Gallery will host a new project by Archive City, entitled Portraits
of Lulu
Island. &nbsp;Archive City, a fictional
memory company is composed of three Vancouver based artists, Cindy
Mochizuki,
Lois Klassen, and Jaimie Robson. Portraits of Lulu Island is a memory
archive
comprised of stories, images, ephemera, tracings&nbsp;,
and other research
materials related to Lulu Island. The project will engage the Archive
City
members in research and collection of various facts and myths about
Lulu
Island, where the City of Richmond is situated. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
 
Archive
City is interested in exploring how memories of a place are preserved
and
archived. By mimicking bureaucratic procedures and presentation
methods, such
as creating official-looking documents and an office setting in the
gallery,
the group members seek to expose the processes involved in translating
traces
of memory into concrete documents preserved in an archival system.<o:p></o:p>
 
&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
 
The
memory collection agency&nbsp;
Archive City&nbsp;explores how cultural memory becomes materialized in
collections and archives by creating&nbsp;archival boxes which contain the
memories
of Richmond residents&nbsp;they have interviewed in the form of dioramas.
They&nbsp;invite&nbsp;the public&nbsp;to contribute facts/truths,
fictions/speculations, and histories about the Richmond area by setting
up a
fictional office at Richmond Art Gallery&nbsp;where they will hold memory
seminars and present materials accumulated during the memory collection
process.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
 
To
book an appointment in advance contact Nan Capogna at RAG by phone at
247.8311,
or at <a href="mailto:ncapogna@richmond.ca"
 title="mailto:ncapogna@richmond.ca" moz-do-not-send="true">ncapogna@richmond.ca</a>.
&nbsp;Archive City Memory Seminar Dates:
Every Thursday in July &amp; August from 11am - 1pm and on Saturday,
July 26
and Saturday August 23, from 11am - 1pm.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
 
Archive
City website at <a href="http://www.archivecity.net/"
 title="http://www.archivecity.net/" moz-do-not-send="true">www.archivecity.net</a><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
 
Gallery
hours are 10:00am to 6:00pm from Monday to Friday and 10:00am to 5:00pm
on
Saturday &amp; Sunday. For updated information on events and
programming, visit
the website at <a href="http://www.richmondartgallery.org/"
 moz-do-not-send="true">www.richmondartgallery.org</a><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
 
The RAG
is operated by the Richmond Art Gallery
Association and is the City of Richmond's Public Contemporary Art
Gallery under
the auspices of the Office of Parks, Recreation &amp; Cultural
Services. The
RAG receives generous and ongoing financial support from the City of
Richmond,
the BC Arts Council, the BC Gaming Commission and the Canada Council
for the
Arts.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p>
 
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Paula
Hickey 
Gallery
Assistant 
Richmond Art
Gallery 
180-7700 Minoru Gate<o:p></o:p>

Richmond
V6Y 1R9<o:p></o:p>
t.
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