[BCMA] to show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver: 1954-1969

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to show, to give, to make it be there 
Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver: 1954-1969 



January 9 to March 13, 2010 - Simon Fraser University Gallery 



In an era when almost everyone is worried about the future, Vancouver’s 
cultural amnesia is being stretched to its limits. The exhibition to 
show, to give, to make it be there revisits a moment in our recent 
history when the notions of hybridity and interdisciplinarity were the 
norm. The fifteen years from 1954 to 1969 were special for many reasons, 
but they also paved the way for, and catalyzed subsequent cultural 
production that uses collage and ‘mixed media’ as its basis. During the 
1954 to 1969 period visual artists, musicians, writers, dancers and 
filmmakers crossed the boundaries set by their disciplines to engage in 
both new forms of composition and new modes of production, especially 
the newly-emergent collaborations that blurred the lines of authorship. 
What happened naturally between 1954 and 1969 is now being repeated, 
perhaps also ‘naturally’, but with differences that do not, however, 
sever the ties to the earlier modes of practice.

While some of this information will be new to BC art history, it is not 
news to the visual artists, musicians, writers, dancers and filmmakers 
who have long known that Vancouver’s golden age has been largely 
ignored, until now. That we are in the midst of a yet another 
technological shift, one that has altered our conception of the letter, 
the photograph and most recently, the book, makes this exhibition not 
only relevant but necessary to our understanding of the present.


*Artists:* bill bissett, Tom Burrows, Judith Copithorne, Stan Douglas, 
Maxine Gadd, Gerry Gilbert, Ray Johnson, Roy Kiyooka, Gary Lee-Nova, 
Glenn Lewis, Malcolm Lowry, Michael Morris, Al Neil and Ian Wallace.

*Opening Reception:* Saturday January 9, 2 to 5pm - Walking Tour with 
curator Michael Turner, 3pm.

*Where: *Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby – the Gallery is in 
the south side of the AQ in room AQ 3004 – one level below the pond, one 
above the main mall outside the Library.


*Parking is free:* on Saturday the 9th only just place this e mail on 
your dash in any outside visitor lot, OR hand it in to the parkade 
person in lieu of money if you park in the parkade. Directions and maps 
are on the SFU Gallery website. The show’s announcement card works 
equally well for free parking.

SFU Burnaby, Academic Quadrangle 3004 | 778-782-4266 | sfu.ca/gallery
Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10am to 5pm, Saturday: 12pm to 5pm
The Gallery will be closed from February 12 to 27, 2010


This exhibition was curated by 2009-10 SFU Ellen and Warren Tallman 
Writer-in-Residence Michael Turner.



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