colourschool
Red Shoes Screening
“A glorious Technicolor epic that influenced generations of filmmakers, artists, and aspiring ballerinas, The Red Shoes intricately weaves backstage life with the thrill of performance.”—Criterion Collection
colourschool presents the second in a series of screenings dedicated to the work of British filmmaker Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger, who strategically employed colour as a vehicle for symbolism and expressionism. For this screening, the role of the colour red is discussed in relation to the film.
See Ian Christie’s review of the film.
colourschool is a school within a school dedicated to the speculative research and exploration of five colours: black, white, brown, yellow, and red.
Providing a free and open space for critical investigations of colour, identity, artmaking, and knowledge production, colourschool attempts to develop a collaborative colour consciousness through a variety of events including reading groups, film screenings, listening labs, interviews, roundtable discussions, brown bag lunches, performances, and installations among other activities.
Recent & Upcoming Events
All events are free and open to the public. Click event title for more information. browse all events
- 2008-03-11
- Colour Exchanges: Interview with Germaine Koh
- 2008-03-12
- Open Hours
- 2008-03-17
- Filling in a White Box
- 2008-03-18
- D & G Reading Group or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours?
- 2008-03-19
- Open Hours
- 2008-03-25
- Sipping "Tequilera" en Fuego: An Evening of Astrid Hadad
- 2008-03-26
- Open Hours
- 2008-03-31
- Filling in a White Box
- 2008-04-02
- Open Hours
- 2008-04-07
- Colour Exchanges: Interview with Kajsa Dahlberg
- 2008-04-09
- Open Hours
- 2008-04-15
- D&G Reading Group Or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours?
- 2008-04-16
- Open Hours
- 2008-04-21
- White Reading Group
- 2008-04-22
- Filling in a White Box Talk
- 2008-04-23
- Open Hours
- 2008-04-29
- colourschool Study Group
User Posts & News
This space is reserved for people within the arts community to post relevant information and links. browse all posts & enter your own
- 01. From colour-blindness to change-blindness... link Posted by Ian Wojtowicz, April 16th, 2008.
- 02. Color Chart at the MoMA link Posted by Jeff Khonsary, March 18th, 2008.
- 03. Jeongmee Yoon’s Pink and Blue Project. link Posted by Jeff Khonsary, March 12th, 2008.
- 04. Remixed London police anti-photography poster: “Millions of people take photos every day. Some of them are brown. Please do not shoot them.” link Posted by Alan McConchie, March 10th, 2008.
- 05. ColorFlip link Posted by Jeff Khonsary, March 9th, 2008.
- 06. Stuff white people like. link Posted by Ian Wojtowicz, March 9th, 2008.
- 07. Colour-blind artist learns to paint by hearing. link Posted by Jeff Khonsary, February 28th, 2008.
- 08. Bjork, colour, + independence link Posted by Karla Mummery, February 25th, 2008.
- 09. sound of color... link Posted by Ian Wojtowicz, February 25th, 2008.
- 10. Canadian is the new black. link Posted by Jessica Glesby, February 24th, 2008.
From the Archives
- Red Shoes Screening
“A glorious Technicolor epic that influenced generations of filmmakers, artists, and aspiring ballerinas, The Red Shoes intricately weaves backstage life with the thrill of performance.”—Criterion Collection
colourschool presents the second in a series of screenings dedicated to the work of British filmmaker Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger, who strategically employed colour as a vehicle for symbolism and expressionism. For this screening, the role of the colour red is discussed in relation to the film.
See Ian Christie’s review of the film.
61/events/red-shoes-screening - Brown Bag Lunch with Brendan Fernandes
colourschool’s Brown Bag events comprise a series of lunch time discussions focused on a given subject or range of subjects. Participants may bring their lunch or take a brown bag provided by colourschool.
For this session, New York and Toronto-based artist Brendan Fernandes speaks about his recent work, which deals with notions of identity through post colonial discourse.
The lunch will begin at 12:30 and end at around 2 pm.
87/events/brown-bag-lunch- - White Reading Group
In this session, the group discusses Chapter 2: Coloured white, not coloured.
54/events/white-reading-group-2 - D & G Reading Group or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours?
For this meeting, we continue our discussion of Chapter 1: Rhizome.
78/events/dg-reading-group-3 - Filling in a White Box Talk
For the months of February and March, Heidi Nagtegaal conducted a series of studies on how to fill a white box. For this session, Heidi reviews her most recent projects at colourschool and relates them to her overall practice.
83/events/filling-in-a-white-box-talk - colourschool Study Group
For this session, independent curator Michael Birchall conducts a discursive review of colourschool’s activities over the past two years through an examination of its projects, programs, and relationships to current and historical art practices. Situating colourschool within the context of Vancouver and beyond, this session locates the project among various trajectories and movements including, but not limited to Fluxus, The Western Front, Artist Run Centres and Cultures, Institutional Critique, Performance Art, Radical Pedagogy, Relational Aesthetics, Participatory Practices, and Open Space Technology. Proceedings from this session will develop into a printed project for C Magazine.
103/events/colourschool-study-group - Indians, Cavemen, and Ancient Civilizations: Pop Music's Mythic Past, A Listening Lab
A look at various ways artists have dealt with the past and primordial origins within popular music. The effect is both satirical and earnest in turn, from the Cramps silly fun to the anger of Eugene McDaniels. This listening lab spans notions of historic time in a short sweep starting up in the 20th century. Guests are invited to bring song and sound files, titles, and videos for collective aural enjoyment.
81/events/indians-cavemen-and-ancient-civilizations-pop-musics-mythic-past - Colour Exchanges: Interview with Germaine Koh
Johan Lundh interviews Germaine Koh during this session.
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