[BCMA] Border Zones: New MOA Exhibit Opening Jan 23

Mon Jan 11 10:51:03 PST 2010

MOA Press Release	

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BORDER ZONES: NEW ART ACROSS CULTURES
Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

Opening Saturday, January 23, 10:00 am; Exhibition Reception Tuesday,
January 26, 7:00 pm

Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures is an exhibition of international
contemporary art that will inaugurate MOA’s Audain Gallery on January 23,
2010. It brings together the work of twelve artists engaged in a dialogue
about cultural boundaries –within and between communities, art practices,
audiences, or institutions – and the possibility of translation across them.

Through a surprising diversity of media and approaches, the artists selected
for this show use the idea of a border space to raise questions about
migration and identity, knowledge protection and access, and the
permeability and construction of boundaries cross-culturally. Borders are
considered not only as lines or markers that divide cultures, but also as
uncertain spaces that are sites of encounter and transformation.

Participating artists include Hayati Mokhtar, Dain-Iskandar Said, John
Wynne, Edward Poitras, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, Tania Mouraud,
Marianne Nicolson, Gu Xiong, Prabakar Visvanath, Rosanna Raymond, Ron
Yunkaporta, and Laura Wee Láy Láq.

Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures, which will be on exhibit through
September 12, 2010, is part of MOA’s commitment to exploring, developing,
and inviting new ways of representing understandings about culture in the
21st century. Join us for a special Exhibition Reception at 7:00 pm on
January 26, at which two of the exhibiting artists, Tania Mouraud and
Rosanna Raymond, will present performance pieces. Other artists will also be
in attendance.

To give you inside access to the ideas behind the exhibit, an interactive
online magazine, www.BorderZones.ca, is being created. You can visit the
site now, while it’s under construction, but when it officially launches on
January 26, 2010, you’ll discover personal and thought-provoking articles on
each of the artists by distinguished contributors such as award-winning
journalist Jan Wong, educator and activist Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, and
filmmaker and artist Loretta Todd, among others. 

You’ll be able to email your comments and questions to the site, some of
which will be addressed by the contributors. You’ll also find video
interviews with the artists, regular updates on artist files, artwork
exclusive to the webzine, provocative reviews of the exhibition, and a blog
devoted to the idea of borders.

Over the course of the exhibition, BorderZones.ca will become an archive
about the idea of borders, particularly how new spaces of thought and
meaning are created and contested at the boundaries of knowledge, language,
art, culture, and politics.

Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures is presented with Vancouver 2010
Cultural Olympiad. Additional sponsors: The Vancouver Foundation, The Canada
Council, Consulat Général de France à Vancouver, Audrey Hawthorn Fund for
Publications in Museum Anthropology, and Alican Mould & Plastics.

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604.822.5950 or jenwebb at interchange.ubc.ca
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 <http://www.moa.ubc.ca> Images: Video still from "Near Intervisible Lines,"
Hayati Mokhtar and Dain-Iskandar Said; Detail from "Imag(in)ing 'Home',"
Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan; Video still from "Face to Face," Tania
Mouraud; “Bob Wilson,” detail from Anspayaxw, 2009. Sound installation by
John Wynne; Photo: Denise Hawrysio

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