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Christopher Gallagher, Terminal City, 1982, 16 mm film transferred to DVD, 8 min. sound

Kate Craig, Straight Jacket, 1980, video transferred to DVD, 7 min. sound

 

C.1983: An Evening of Film and Video

At Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, Downtown Vancouver, free of charge

Friday, May 4, 2012

 

7:30pm

Christopher Gallagher, Terminal City, 1982, 16 mm film transferred to DVD, 8 min. sound

Kate Craig, Ma, 1986, ¾ inch video transferred to DVD, 17 min. sound

Kate Craig, Straight Jacket, 1980, video transferred to DVD, 7 min. sound

David Rimmer, Bricolage, 1984, video transferred to DVD, 11 min. sound

Hank Bull/Eric Metcalfe, Sax Island, 1984, video transferred to DVD, 12 min. sound

David Rimmer, Narrows Inlet, 1980s, 16 mm, 10 min. silent

Ellie Epp, Notes in Origin, 1987, 16 mm, 15 min.

Christopher Gallagher, Seeing in the Rain, 1981, 16 mm, 10 min. sound

 

9:00 –10:30

A continuous screening of Rodney Graham’s extraordinary first film Two Generators of 1984, a four-minute long night shot of a rushing river illuminated by industrial lights to the throbbing sound of diesel generators.

 

Please join us for this rare opportunity to view important media works produced in Vancouver during a critical period in experimental film and video here. These artists explore new approaches to narrative structures and temporality, and consider how the camera apparatus impacts perception.  Presented in conjunction with the Presentation House Gallery exhibition C.1983 about camera art in Vancouver during the 1980s. Last day of the exhibition is Sunday, May 6, 2012.

THURSDAY, MAY 3, 7:00 pm

A CONVERSATION IN AND AROUND C. 1983

Arni Haraldsson 
Helga Pakasaar
Ian Wallace
William Wood

In conjunction with the exhibition C.1983, please join us for a conversation about camera art in Vancouver during the 1980s. Art historian William Wood, artists Arni Haraldsson and Ian Wallace, and curator Helga Pakasaar will focus the discussion on local and international photographic practices in the 1980s. They will consider issues that Vancouver artists were concerned with at the time, including the emergence of new aesthetic strategies and the role of critical writing. The event promises to reveal new insights into this critical period in Vancouver art history.

Arni Haraldsson has been active as a photo-based artist in Vancouver since the early 1980s. He is currently an Associate Professor in Photography at Emily Carr University. In the mid 1980s he was director of the Or Gallery and was the westcoast editor for C Magazine.

Helga Pakasaar is curator at Presentation House Gallery. She has produced exhibitions and publications of contemporary art and photography since the mid 1980s. One of her longstanding interests has been the research of photographic practices of this region. She is the curator of C.1983.

Ian Wallace has played a critical role in the development of contemporary art in Vancouver since the late 1960s, and has exhibited widely. He was an influential teacher at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design from 1972 to 1998. In addition to his art practice, Wallace has published critical writing for art journals and exhibition catalogues. He published the essay Photo Conceptualism in Vancouver in 1991.

William Wood is an art historian and critic, having taught at universities in England and Canada. Since 1984, he has published on recent art in journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues, as well as holding editorial positions with C Magazine, Public, Vanguard and Parachute magazines. He has a longstanding interest in Vancouver art since the 1960s and is working on a book about contemporary art in Vancouver in the 21st century.

Job Title: Gallery Administrator

Reports to: Director

Subordinates: PT Development Associate, PT Bookkeeper, PT Outreach Educator

Summary of Functions:

Reporting to the Director and with support from the Treasurer, the Administrator is responsible for Financial and Administrative Management of the Gallery. Duties include Financial and Budgetary management, Marketing and Communications Development, Granting Coordination and Exhibition Support, Oversight and Management of Gallery volunteers and weekend staff, Planning of Education and Outreach programs and Oversight of personnel. Interim Duties include fundraising plan development and execution (including fundraising events), development and cultivation of Gallery membership, as well as overseeing the gallery’s membership, contacts, sponsor and donor database. Contingent on the Gallery’s imminent plans the position could also involve Capital campaign support and management.

Duties:

Financial Management

• Working with Director, prepares Annual Gallery and Project Budgets
• With the support of PT Bookkeeper, tracks budgets related to all financial aspects of the gallery and prepares timely reports for the Treasurer and Board of Directors, as well as budget updates to staff
• Works with Director, Curator and staff to ensure budget projections are met.
• Working with the Director, prepares and oversees Gallery Policy Manual
• Working with the Director and Curator, oversees and coordinates Grant Applications

• Prepares budget reports for granting agencies, partners and sponsors. Works with curator and advises on special project accounting
• Responsible for managing, preparation and disbursement of tax receipts.
• Responsible for statutory reporting related to gallery finances, including HST, Annual Report prep and Grant reporting as required.

Administrative

• Oversees and Manages the Gallery Office including incoming and outgoing communication and correspondence, office equipment maintenance and inter-office communication, and coordination of special events including gallery receptions and rentals
• Working with the Director will advise on required support staff.
• With the Exhibition Manager recruits and oversees all support staff including gallery sitters and volunteers, writes grants for temporary staff, interns etc.
• Working with the Director, oversees the Gallery’s PT Educational Outreach staff and Chesterfields youth photo project

Marketing and Communications

• Develops Annual Communications Plan, including website, print and online advertising, newsletter and invitations etc.
• Oversees execution of communications plan, including website design and development, newsletter production and other promotional vehicles
• Maintaining and cultivation of press contacts and relations
• Maintain files of press coverage

Interim Duties

Fundraising and Development

• With Director, and with support of PT Development Associate, develops annual fundraising plan (Sponsorships, Foundations, Editions Sales and Promotion, Events, etc.)
• Overseeing annual Fundraising Plan execution
• Annual Fundraising events development and planning
• Overseeing Fundraising event execution

Membership

• Develop annual membership growth and cultivation plans
• Oversees the execution of Annual membership growth and cultivation plans
• Membership maintenance and retention plan development and execution
• Oversees Membership and Donor database

Skills required:

Candidate will have excellent communication and organizational skills, and good working knowledge of budget and accounting processes. Proficiency with office software and financial management software including MS Office, QuickBooks, Filemaker Pro, Campaign Monitor, WordPress and Acrobat will be highly beneficial. Experience with and knowledge of arts management, art institutions and the visual arts will be a significant asset.

Salary range will be based on experience. Benefit Package including RRSP plan is available.

Please send a resume and cover letter using subject line “Job Posting” before April 23rd, 2012 at 5:00 pm to:

info@presentationhousegallery.org

or a hard copy to:

Job posting
c/o Presentation House Gallery
333 Chesterfield Avenue
North Vancouver, BC, V7M 2G9
Canada

Ian Wallace, The Imperial City, 1986

Thursday, March 29, 7:30 pm at Presentation House Gallery

C. 1983 Panel Discussion

Kati Campbell
Don Gill
Cate Rimmer
Cheryl Sourkes

A discussion that looks at the different contexts that generated camera art in Vancouver during the 1980s. The participants will discuss their involvements in various artist initiatives and cultural activities in the city at that time. Kati Campbell, Don Gill, Cate Rimmer and Cheryl Sourkes bring a breadth of perspectives on the histories that informed this key cultural moment. The event will be moderated by Helga Pakasaar, curator of C. 1983.

Kati Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist, art historian and writer who has exhibited widely since the early 1980s. She co-founded (N)on Commercial Gallery in 1984, taught studio and cultural studies at several universities, and has been director of Independent Communication Association since 1997. In the 1980s she exhibited at Or Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, Perel Gallery, Western Front, among others.

Don Gill’s multimedia art practice encompasses writing, performance and documentary studies. He has exhibited widely since 1976 and has taught extensively, currently in photo arts at the University of Lethbridge. In the 1980s, he was involved with the (Non)Commercial collective and exhibited at Gallery Too, Coburg, Or, Western Front, Xchanges(Victoria) and Open Space (Victoria).

Cate Rimmer is a curator at the Charles H. Scott Gallery where has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions and produced publications, and was previously Director of Truck Gallery in Calgary and Curator in Residence at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal. She was the founding Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver in 1987, affiliated with the Kootenay School of Writing, where she generated many significant projects.

Cheryl Sourkes is an artist, independent curator and writer living in Toronto, and is part of the collective Thinking out Loud. She has exhibited widely since the late 1970s and in recent years has focused on working with new technologies. In the 1980s, she exhibited in Vancouver at Blue Sky Gallery, Women in Focus, Western Front, Coburg Gallery, Presentation House Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Sunday, March 11 at 1 pm in the Gallery

Presentation House Gallery curator Helga Pakasaar who organized the exhibition will introduce C.1983 followed by a discussion about the artworks with Claudia Beck, a photography collector who during the seventies and early eighties operated NOVA Gallery, an important Vancouver commercial gallery that specialized in photography.

EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY
1399 JOHNSTON STREET
VANCOUVER, BC

SOUTH BUILDING #301

Presentation House Gallery is pleased to present an artist talk by Paris-born, Berlin-based artist Cyprien Gaillard.

Between iconoclasm and minimal aesthetics, romanticism and Land Art, the work of Cyprien Gaillard questions man’s traces in nature with an archeological approach to recent history. Through sculpture, painting, etching, photography, video, performance and large-scale interventions in public space, Gaillard examines the relics of our built environment with an entropic view of destruction as the starting point of renewal

Gaillard’s most recent work Artefact is a film shot on the artist’s iPhone and later transferred to 35mm film. The film traces the ancient city of Babylon (near the current city of Al-Hillah in Iraq) cut with a snippet of David Grey’s song ‘Babylon’ as the score. The work won the 2011 Publikumspreis (people’s choice prize) in Germany’s Young Art Prize exhibition at Berlin’s Hamburgerbahnhof.

In The Recovery of Discovery, Gaillard notoriously built a pyramid out of 72,000 bottles of beer at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and invited visitors to contribute to the work by drinking it. As Gaillard states:. “The physical hangover is also an architectural one, from which one has to recover.”

Gaillard was recently awarded the 2010 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most prestigious award for contemporary visual arts.

Cyprien Gaillard’s talk is presented in collaboration with Emily Carr University and with the gracious support of the Consulat général de France à Vancouver. He is represented by Sprüth Magers Gallery, Berlin.