Have you checked out the Germinal exhibition at the New Media Gallery yet?
Here’s your chance to get an in-depth look.
The New Media Gallery is teaming up with the City of New Westminster’s cultural services department to offer a new series of talks in the gallery.
On Sunday, May 22, Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda will be on hand at the gallery for a talk, alongside a previously recorded Skype interview with artists Santiago Lara and Beatriz Coto. Lara and Coto, who work as the collective Laramascoto, speak (in Spanish) about their work and about their piece, Animalium, that’s part of the exhibition.
Sepulveda, who’s an assistant professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, will be chatting in English to discuss the key points from their interview and field questions.
That talk is set to run from 2 to 3 p.m.
On Wednesday, May 25, you can stop in to the gallery for a lunchtime talk from noon to 1 p.m.
Rosemary Oh-McGinnis, a biology instructor at Douglas College with a PhD in medical genetics from UBC, will link recent studies in genetics with contemporary art.
Then, on Sunday, May 29, from 1 to 2 p.m., Vancouver artist Marina Roy will be in the gallery to read from her upcoming book on the appearance of the mythological Sasquatch.
A press release notes that Roy’s cross-disciplinary work investigates the intersection between materials, history, language and ideology.
“The foundations of her research are in psychoanalysis, biopolitics, human-animal distinction, feminism, natural history and linguistics,” she said. “Roy is interested in grotesque art: how human, animal, plant, mineral and microbial life coalesce into new material formations.”
For more on the exhibition, see www.newmediagallery.ca, or just stop in to check it out for yourself. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, with late-night openings until 8 p.m. on Thursdays.
