Curatorial

(2020 – ) 20 | 45 | 45 |45 | 90 | 20 | bread scores

20 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 90 | 20 (Bread Scores) (2020 – )

20 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 90 | 20  (Bread Scores) is both a performance and act of collective knowledge production, choreographing itself around the sourdough bread making process. Denoting the “fallow” moments in the process of making sourdough, the project’s title references the intervals of time between inputs of careful labour. The project fills these pauses with activities and workshops drawn from the bread-making process.

The project has been enacted a number of times, with each performance developing a score that serves as both documentation of the day’s activities and a recipe for baking bread. Creating an environment for exchange, each participant in turn leads the group through their chosen activity, developing a new body of shared knowledge between themselves, communicated to a broader public through the performance score and recipe – disseminated as a digital poster and printed zine.

From 2020 – 2021 the project was primarily performed digitally, and since 2022 it has been held both digitally and in person.

 

 

Listen to “Thoughts on Time and Monsters” an accompanying text work here

Photos:

Lexie Owen
Bui Quy Son

Performance Locations:

Kunsthøyskolen i Oslo, Oslo NO
Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo NO
NoGoods, Bergen NO
Online

Posted by Lexie in Curatorial, Participatory Research, Public Performance, Publication

Burrardview Fieldhouse Residency (2015 – 2018)

Burrardview Park Fieldhouse Residency (2015 – 2018)

Owen was artist-in-residence at Burrardview Park Fieldhouse through the City of Vancouver’s Parks Board Fieldhouse Activation Program for a period of 4 years, from 2015 – 2018. The program places artist and arts collectives in community spaces, providing studio space in exchange for 300 hours of community oriented artistic labour.

During her time at Burrardview she developed numerous projects in and with the residents of the neighbourhood directly surrounding her studio, and in neighbourhood spaces across Vancouver.

Projects developed during this residency include Corner Store (2018), ODD JOBS (2016 – 2018), WNDW Gallery (2015 – 2017), The Collaborative Embroidery Society (2015 – 2017), and in collaboration with the Burrardview Community Association, The Burrardview Art Salon (2018) and The Evelyn Exhibition (2018)

Photos:

Lexie Owen

 

Support:

City of Vancouver’s Parks Board

BC Arts Council

City of Vancouver Cultural Services

Vancouver Foundation

chART Projects

Posted by Lexie in Curatorial, Installation, Participatory Research, Public Performance, Sculpture

Burrardview Art Salon (2018)

Burrardview Art Salon (2018)

The Burrardview Art Salon (2018) was a curatorial project presented in collaboration with the Burrardview Community Association that invited artists who lived in the vicinity of the Burrardview Park to exhibit works in and around the Fieldhouse.

For the duration of the exhibition participating artists hosted gallery open hours, allowing their neighbours to visit the exhibition.

The exhibition included works from: Lorenzo DeFrancesco, Dan Fisher, Len Gardiner, Anne Gaze, Kyla Kinzel, Zshu-Zshu Mark, Fredi Rahn, George Rammell, Shari Whittaker, Joyce Woods, Jin-me Yoon and Roanna Zuker

Photos:

Lexie Owen

 

Support:

The City of Vancouver’s Parks Board

The City of Vancouver Cultural Services

Posted by Lexie in Curatorial

The Evelyn Exhibition (2018)

The Evelyn Exhibition (2018)

Presented in collaboration with the Burrardview Community Association and SiteFactory, The Evelyn Exhibition grew out of a singular ODD JOBS maintenance request: “Please make an art installation or project with the supplied surplus audio tape, along the lines of Evelyn Roth”.

In order to fulfill the job request, Owen invited Vancouver-based artists Liljana Mead MartinHolly Schmidt and Lois Klassen to create artworks or workshops in response to the diverse practice of performance art legend Evelyn Roth that were installed in and around the SiteFactory bus at Burrardview Park on July 28th 2019 for a one-day exhibition and celebration. The event also included live music from InFuse, sculptural works by Jani Carroll and improvised dance performances by Ray Fuse and Anna Materna using costumes made by Evelyn Roth from recycled fabrics.

Photos:

Patrick McNabb

 

Support:

The City of Vancouver’s Parks Board

The City of Vancouver Cultural Services

Posted by Lexie in Curatorial, Installation, Public Performance, Sculpture

WNDW Gallery (2015 – 2017)

WNDW Gallery (2015 – 2017)

WNDW was an itinerant artist-run space that inhabited residential windows in the City of Vancouver with a focus on supporting the work of emerging artists, writers and curators. The project aimed to bring contemporary art out of self-selecting “high-culture” areas and into the quotidian life of the residential street. The project partnered emerging contemporary artists with neighborhood residents who take on the role of gallerist for the duration of each exhibition.

Throughout the project’s three year duration it hosted 5 exhibitions featuring the work of: TJ McLachlan, Jasmine Baetz + Christian Vistan, Helena Hsieh, Stefan Sollenius + Ana Carolina von Hertwig and Emily Neufeld + Pegah Tabassinejad.

Click below for more information on each individual installation.

Photos:

Lexie Owen

 

Support:

BC Arts Council

City of Vancouver Cultural Services

City of Vancouver Park’s Board

chART

Vancouver Foundation

Posted by Lexie in Curatorial, Installation