Fwd: Oct 15, Symposium - Arts of Conscience : From Hiroshima to Vancouver

[Melek Ortabasi]

Hi all, 

if you're in the Vancouver area, this might be of interest.

Best,
Melek

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Subject: Oct 15, Symposium - Arts of Conscience : From Hiroshima to Vancouver 

			
	Centre A Co- Presents 

Arts of Conscience: from Hiroshima to Vancouver 
One Day Symposium 

Saturday, October 15, 10am-5pm (Door opens at 9:30 am) 
Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 
2 West Hastings, Vancouver 

Registration & Tickets 
$20 regular | $10 student/senior 
Ticket includes the symposium, the screening of Linda Hoaglund’s film ANPO: Art X War (2010), bento lunch, and a cocktail reception. Space is limited. Please call 604-683-8326 to purchase tickets or reserve your tickets at www.centrea.org (under the “headlines”) before Wednesday, October 12 th . 

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Credit: Left; Ishiuchi Miyako ひろしま /hiroshima #9, Dress, 2007/2008, Type C Print, 108x74cm, T.Fujisawa 
Right: Linda Hoaglund, ANPO: ART x WAR Film Poster 

Arts of Conscience is a one-day symposium on art and aesthetics that explores peace and ways of transforming the damaging forces of war, military occupation and the resulting generations of trauma. The symposium is organized in conjunction with the visit to Vancouver by Miyako Ishiuchi, internationally renowned Japanese contemporary photographer, to celebrate her exhibition ひろしま hiroshima which opens on October 13 th at the Audain Gallery at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. 

For the morning session , Professor John O’Brian (UBC) will moderate a panel discussion with artists that focuses on their artistic practices in relation to war, trauma, peace and the arts of conscience. The artists will include Dana Claxton (interdisciplinary artist), Larry Nickel (musician), Colin Thomas (playwright), and Cindy Mochizuki (interdisciplinary artist). 

The afternoon session will feature Linda Hoaglund (film director) and Miyako Ishiuchi (contemporary photographer). A screening of Hoaglund’s documentary film (89 minutes), ANPO: ART X WAR (2010), provides the historical as well as political and artistic context for Ishiuchi’s exhibition, ひろしま hiroshima. The documentary presents the radical art and popular anti-war movements, including protest movements against the US-Japan Security Treaty. ANPO explores the legacy of these postwar movements in the work of contemporary artists and movements against the occupation of Okinawa by US military bases. 

For program detail, visit www.centrea.org under "headlines". 
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* Symposium participants are strongly encouraged to see the exhibition before October 15. This will benefit both the morning and afternoon sessions. The exhibition’s opening reception at MOA on October 13 from 7-9pm is open to the public. 
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/exhibits/ 

Symposium Patron: The Audain Foundation 

Arts of Conscience: from Hiroshima to Vancouver is co-organized by Tama Copithorne, Makiko Hara (Centre A), Kirsten E. McAllister (SFU), Christine Kim (SFU) and supported by The Audain Foundation, Centre A; Simon Fraser University’s Dean’s Office for the Faculty of Commu- nication, Art and Technology, School of Communication, School of Contemporary Art, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies, and the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities; Powell Street Festival Society; University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology. 

Centre A gratefully acknowledges the support of all its patrons, sponsors, members, partners, private foundations, and government funding agencies, including the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs. 


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Melek Ortabasi, Ph.D.
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World Literature Program
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"I do not accept that anyone is permanently fixed by his or her 'identity'; but neither can one shed specific structures of race and culture, class and caste, gender and sexuality, environment and history. I understand these, and other cross-cutting determinations, not as homelands, chosen or forced, but as sites of worldly travel: difficult encounters and occasions for dialogue.” James Clifford, _Routes_