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Curatorial Q + A
Liz Park presents a curatorial q + a session on her Centre A exhibition, The Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy, the show’s last public event before closing.
In a country that has touted its multicultural policies, the resurgence of racist attitudes after 9/11 prompts critical assessment of race issues today. In an effort to review race politics in the context of Canada’s colonial and immigrant policies, Limits of Tolerance examines a period in recent history when cultural diversity became Canada’s state policy with the 1988 Multiculturalism Act. In the late 1980s, an increasing number of artists explored and questioned their own identity based on race, gender, and sexuality, as lobby efforts and activism of people of colour and aboriginal ancestry gained momentum. The exhibition re-presents a selection of artworks produced in Vancouver in the late 1980s and early 1990s when artists, writers, and academics engaged in intense debates about identity politics.On view are works by Dana Claxton, Stan Douglas, Laiwan, Paul Lang and Zachary Longboy, Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, Anne Ramsden, Ruby Truly, Henry Tsang, and Paul Wong.
- host:
- Liz Park
- date & time:
- June 21st, 2007 at 1 pm
- location:
- Centre A 2 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Born in Seoul and raised in Calgary, Liz Park currently studies and practices art and curating in Vancouver. She recently curated the Centre A exhibition Limits of Tolerance, for which she organized the symposium, “Challenging the Limits of Tolerance.” Her research interests include postcolonial theories and their applicability in real life and the relationship between the physical and conceptual space of exhibitions.