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Your Assumptions Amuse Me

March 9, 2001 to March 31, 2001
Exhibition
This exhibition is comprised of a series of hand-written letters by the artist's older brother, who is afflicted with schizophrenia, and his drawings of spaceships. The works are affixed to the walls in a manner meant to be immersive to the viewer.

February 9, 2001 to March 3, 2001
Exhibition
This exhibition features long patch paper murals combining mixed media techniques of papermaking, painting, staining, printmaking, and collage and explores animist imagery from folklore and mythologies. Ihaya's work is based in printmaking techniques of etching and chine colle. Her work evokes the natural world and uses archetypal images in a new and exciting way.

February 9, 2001
Exhibition, Performance
This performance by Alberto Friggo employs a format he has been exploring recently. In these demonstrations he videos an action and then interacts with the recording. In this performance Friggo will lead the spectator in the making of gnocchi, potato pasta. While this preparation is recorded, it is replayed while the audience consumes the pasta. The final work is the two videos; one of the preparation and another of the consumption that is played side by side on monitors.

November 17, 2000
Performance, Publication
High (bridi) Tea is a performative collaboration between artist Haruko Okano and writer Fred Wah that explores the visual and textual terrain of racial and cultural hybridity. The performance installation centres on table settings for 16 guests and, based on a material relationship on fungus and mould, plays with issues of contamination. Through a series of anecdotes and textual surprises, Okano and Wah interact with audience assumptions and expectations to create an unstable and questioning emulsion of language and memory. Haruko Okano is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. Fred Wah is a Calgary based writer and teaches at the University of Calgary.

November 3, 2000 to December 2, 2000
Exhibition
Margaret Glavina's sculptural installation MUSEum focuses on the natural history museum as a site for the display of the natural world. But Glavina's vitrines focus on death of and in the natural world and her constructed still lives read as momento mori. The work explores notions of the natural and the unnatural as related to the museum display of specimens. Margaret Glavina is a Vancouver based artist who has studied at ECIAD and Capilano College.