Kate was in conversation with Argentinian artist Dina González Mascaró about her exhibition ‘Vessels are Never Empty’ at Franc Gallery in Vancouver on Saturday, March 23rd, 3 pm. They talked about the liveliness of objects and their place in marking the passage of life.
Congratulations to Dr. Aynur Kadir, who has been working in her new position as a MITACS Elevate Postdoctoral Scholar and Visiting Media Curator at the Bill Reid Gallery of North West Coast Art. Her MITACS fellowship is supported by the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Studies and the Making Culture Lab at SFU, where […]
We were honoured to be invited to contribute an article to the 50th Anniversary Issue of the journal BC Studies. Hannah Turner, Kate Hennessy, Meghann O’Brien and Conrad Sly co-authored “Wrapped in the Cloud: An Interview with Meghann O’Brien and Conrad Sly”. The article presents a contextual essay and conversation transcript exploring the ethical, creative, […]
In summer of 2018 Kate Hennessy and Hannah Turner collaborated with artist and weaver Meghann O’Brien and digital artist Conrad Sly to produce a new media work titled Wrapped in the Cloud. This media installation is a part of the traveling exhibition Boarder X, curated by Jaimie Issac. Boarder X has just opened at the […]
Please join our conversation in San Jose at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association on November 16 10:15 am-12 noon (4-0335.). Bad Habitus: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal Roundtable Session How is multimodal anthropology complicit in the reification of technocentric methodologies and power? Inspired by Elizabeth Chin’s provocation for the multimodal to […]
Kate Hennessy and Trudi Smith are preparing to open their exhibition ‘Fugitives in the Archive’ at the Royal British Columbia Museum. The exhibition runs from Nov. 2 2018 through January 2019. The exhibition is based on their work with the BC Archives in which they interviewed archivists and conservators about objects that acted in unexpected […]
We were excited to read Barbara Matthews’ thoughtful review of Review of $5 Handshake: Art on Treaty 8 Territory, the book that accompanied the exhibition Maps and Dreams, curated by Melanie O’Brian and Brian Jungen, at the Audain Gallery (June 1 – July 29, 2017). Reposted from SFU Galleries REVIEW: $5 Handshake: Art on Treaty […]
PUBLIC 57: Archive/Counter-Archives has just been published. It includes articles by Gabriela Aceves, Alejandra Bronfman, Maia Dawson, Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith. We are grateful to editors Susan Lord, Janine Marchessault, and May Chew for this opportunity to present our work among such incredible company! ************************** Editors: May Chew | Susan Lord | Janine […]
Congratulations to Jay Tseng, Brandon Hoare, Steven Li and Maureen Song, whose short film Haida Now: Corey Bulpitt is an official selection of the 2018 Society for Visual Anthropology’s Film and Media Festival. This short film features acclaimed artist Corey Bulpitt reflecting on his life as a carver, on Haida material culture, and on what […]
We are celebrating the launch of Meghann O’Brien’s beautiful catalogue Interface, which documents her exhibition of the same name at the Bill Reid Gallery (September 18, 2018 – January 9, 2019). The catalogue includes extensive writing by Meghann O’Brien, as well as contributions by curators Beth Carter and Salia Joseph, Kate Hennessy and Hannah Turner.