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FIRST FRIDAYS
Candice Hopkins
Protest Architecture
Friday June 4, 2010, noon-1 pm at MAWA
With examples ranging from the history of squats in Canada, Métis Road Allowance Houses, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, Australia, and the Fake Estates of Gordon Matta-Clark, this presentation will create tenuous links between architecture and protest.
Candice Hopkins is the Sobey Curatorial Resident, Indigenous Art, at the National Gallery of Canada, and is the former director and curator of exhibitions at The Western Front, Vancouver. Her recent curatorial projects include exhibitions on architecture and disaster, feminism and video, and the revolutionary potential of slowness in relation to new technologies.
Diana Thorneycroft and Pauline Greenhill
Copyright for artists: a discussion
Friday July 2, 2010, noon-1 pm at MAWA
Copyright and intellectual property have become increasingly complex as cultural production has changed to include mash ups, cut ups, and sampled music. Do artists own their ideas? Or has appropriation, collage art and culture jamming blown that notion apart? How do we balance our cultural priorities for free expression while maintaining an artist’s right to make a living? What is our cultural ideal? Is it a vast, shared database of ideas and images, freely shared and constantly made new by remixing? Or respect for artistic production through notions like authenticity and authorship? How do we balance artists’ rights with those of corporations, who relentlessly strive to control how their intellectual property–images and texts–gets used? Finally, what are the legal ramifications of appropriation/borrowing/stealing? Pauline Greenhill will talk about the law as she knows it, and Diana Thorneycroft will reflect on her experience of breaking it.
Law school dropout Pauline Greenhill is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg. She has published feminist perspectives on intellectual property issues and art in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law and Herizons.
Diana Thorneycroft has exhibited across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. Her latest series of photographic works called Group of Seven Awkward Moments will be featured at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from June 12 - August 22, 2010 . Reproductions of paintings by Tom Thomson, Emily Carr and the Group of Seven are used as backdrops to dioramas that are constructed, then photographed. By combining well-known Canadian landscape paintings with scenes of accidents, disasters and instances of poor judgment, the series satirizes the mythology and icons of Canadian culture.
