Marjetica Potrc, Audain Artist-in-Residence
dal 5/10/2010 al 17/12/2010
Segnalato da
5/10/2010
Marjetica Potrc, Audain Artist-in-Residence
Audain Gallery SFU Woodward's, Vancouver
Over the last several decades the work of Slovenian architect and artist has focused on new forms of social practices. Potrc is best known for her on-site projects using participatory design, her drawing series, and her architectural case studies. Covering a range of places and scales, the exhibition 'The Making of New Territories and Communities' draws upon the global phenomena of urbanization, and the restructured relationship to the rural.
The Audain Artist-in-Residence Program will commence in the fall with an exhibition of works by Slovenian artist and architect, Marjetica Potrč.
Marjetica Potrč will be the first artist to be hosted by the Audain Artist in Residence Program and will begin her residency in October 2010. The Audain Artist-in-Residence will work closely with visual-art students within the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU Woodward’s and the community in Vancouver. A schedule for a series of workshops hosted by the artist, as well as a public artist's talk, will be released in September 2010.
Over the last several decades the work of Slovenian architect and artist Marjetica Potrč has focused on new forms of social practices within global changes in both urban and rural sites. Potrč is best known for her on-site projects using participatory design, her drawing series, and her architectural case studies. With her focus on community-based environmental projects and the tools and modes of self-organization, Potrč's practices give a vibrant account of how people and communities, in the words of geographer Cindi Katz, "produce and reproduce themselves as social, political, and economic subjects."1
In working with communities to build projects to improve everyday life, and then transferring these projects into an art context, whether by reconstructing buildings or by exhibiting particular utensils or existing tools, Potrĉ engages artistically with "...practices [that] work off of, and in response to one another, as much as in reaction to the changes imposed and engendered by "global economic structuring" and its local manifestations."2
Covering a range of places and scales, the exhibition The Making of New Territories and Communities draws upon these global phenomena of urbanization, as well as the restructured relationship to the rural. The exhibition—which draws on work done in the Amazon region of Brazil and Tirana in Albania, as well as Detroit, Amsterdam, and Prishtina—resonates with the specific context and situation in Vancouver and Canada where conceptions of territory and citizenship are highly contested.
1. Cindi Katz, Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004): 240
2. Katz, 241
Marjetica Potrč is best known for her on-site projects using participatory design, her drawing series, and her architectural case studies. Her work focuses on new forms of social practices within urban changes, citizenship as well as community-based environmental projects. Potrč's work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil (1996 and 2006) and the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, and 2009); and she has had solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001); the Max Protetch Gallery in New York (2002 and 2005); the Nordenhake Gallery in Berlin (2003 and 2007). Potrč has taught at numerous institutions in Europe and North America, including MIT (2005). In 2000 she received the prestigious Hugo Boss prize, and was awarded a fellowship at the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School in New York (2007).
Workshops
With Marjetica Potrč
October 08:
From the Streets
Urban textures and histories. A series of guided walks through Vancouver.
October 15:
New Territorialization; An interdisciplinary discussion.
October 21:
Methods and Practices; A workshop on artistic fieldwork and research as contemporary practice.
The Audain Gallery is a cornerstone of Simon Fraser University’s new SFU Woodward’s Contemporary Arts complex and an exciting new venue where artistic expression and social and political commentary will come together in the form of innovative, provocative exhibitions, events and collaborative programs.
Image: Florestania, 2006. How to Live Together, 27th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil acrylic paint on wall photo by Wolfgang Traeger. Courtesy the artist and Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Contact: Heather Kennedy, Media Relations - SFU Woodward’s, 604.723.2562, heatherkennedy.vcr@gmail.com
For Simon Fraser University information: Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, SFU PAMR, 778.782.5151, jamieson@sfu.ca
Opening Reception: Oct. 06 at 8pm
Artist Talk at 6pm
Audain Gallery at SFU Woodward’s
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC V6B 1H4
Hours: Tue. – Sat. 12pm- 6pm