Chasten My Fantasies

Chasten my Fantasies of Human Mastery (2018)

Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

The project takes an object-oriented perspective on the material agents that construct the gallery experience, complicating traditional relationships between the audience and the artworks. By shifting the experiential nature of the gallery, the exhibition will look at how the space operates on experience. The objects in the space are rendered non-utilitarian, familiar material processes become unrecognizable, and the viewer becomes an object among an assemblage of objects without hierarchy.

Artists:

Angela Gmeinweiser
Arden Boehm
Carmen Winther
Reta Stevenson

Curated by Mathew Glenn & Evan Berg

 

 

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The Sons and Daughters of Oddleifur


Shauna Oddleifson
The Sons and Daughters of Oddleifur

 

I spent a month in Iceland with a hope to gain an increased understanding of my own heritage, and of how the natural and cultural environments of Iceland have shaped my identity. I went with a project idea, to create a series of narrative drawings that will incorporate cultural and familial aspects of my Icelandic heritage. My plan for this residency was to connect with the culture and history of Iceland, about which I know only a little. I do recall, however, the Icelandic folklore stories that my paternal grandfather told me as a child. During the residency, I connected with a local genealogy organization, and came away with a very long list of relatives dating back to 800 AD. My time in the studio was spent creating a series of drawings, using my little girl character, this time as a Viking, in Icelandic settings.  While travelling around Iceland, I was intrigued by the ways the natural environment has such an impact on the Icelandic people. In my drawings and prints I have tried to capture this idea while tying it to my family lineage as descendants of infamous Viking, Eric the Red.

 

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Scary Instructor & Terrifying Students!

For 14 years the Caravan Farm Theatre, located outside of Armstrong, has created a Halloween-themed production, The Walk of Terror, that engages community in an event that Artistic Director Estelle Shook says “blurs the line between artist and audience”.

This highly interactive production incorporates the artistry of professional and non-professional performers who are part of the Caravan community. This year artists came from across Canada as well as from within the Okanagan region to perform in the show, including UBCO students from the Creative and Critical Studies Department directed by performance instructor Sonia Norris. Norris began performing with the Caravan Farm Theatre twenty years ago and teaching at UBCO this fall provided the opportunity to share this experience with her students.

Norris and seven students, Dora Chen, Sage Cannon, Peter Navratil, Hawk Mendoza, Joel Evans, Avril Wood, and Breanne Ruskowsky, performed in four different vignettes along the Walk of Terror and also spent the day working as part of the production team setting up the farm for the performance.

This “terrifying” experience was an amazing opportunity for the students to perform in a professional production, but also to work collaboratively with a theatre company that is deeply committed to, and supported by, community engagement. Hopefully this experience shall lead to future creative collaborations between the Caravan Farm Theatre and UBCO students!

Photo credit: Zev Tiefenbach

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Tradition

Patricia Leinemann is in her final year of her BFA degree.

Her art installation features drying walnuts, walnut wood bowls, zucchini walnut bread, pickled walnuts and walnut ink.

It all began with tradition… harvesting walnuts for zucchini walnut bread.

 

 

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