Interviews which are not included on the dvds:
Henrique Oliveira
Oliveira, another of the Brazilian artists to be invited to participate in the 2014-15 Vancouver Biennale, interviewed when he came for a location scout. From an exhibition catalogue at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, 2011:
Oliveira’s use of weathered strips of tapumes to evoke the stroke of a paintbrush or the folds of human flesh has become a trademark. His installations, combined with his ongoing explorations of the expressive movement and cumulative effects of layers of paint, have rapidly earned Oliveira international recognition. His work has been exhibited on three continents and in 2010 he was included in both the São Paulo and Monterrey Biennials and received Brazil’s illustrious Marcantonio Vilaça prize for the arts.
Marcello Dantas
Marcello is an internationally known and respected curator who has worked with artists such as Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, Shirin Neshat, Tunga, Laura Vinci, Angelo Venosa and Arthur Omar, Peter Greenaway, Anish Kapoor and others. He will be curating a large segment of the 2014-15 Biennale in Vancouver, working with the latin American artists José Resende, Os Gemeos, and Henrique Oliveira among others.
José Resende
José is a Brazilian sculptor who works with ordinary, everyday materials, reconfiguring them in plastic shapes or into stable or dynamic installations. This interview took place at the offices of the Vancouver Biennale in late October, 2013.
Charles & Lily Jencks
Land artists and landscape architects, the father-daughter team of Charles and Lily Jencks is proposing a new land art park for Richmond, BC. In these two interviews each expounds on landscape and art’s place in the environment.
Jil Weaving
The Vancouver Parks Board’s Co-ordinator of Arts and Culture discusses issues of gender and appropriation in this interview.
Toni Latour
Toni Latour, artist and instructor, creates a text-based work for the Vancouver Biennale which is installed in an area of Vancouver where extreme poverty and homelessness bumps up against new condominium developments.
Marie Khouri
Vancouver and Paris-based sculptor discusses her work, the defacement of her work, and what attracts her to being an artist. Filmed in her studio at Capilano University, North Vancouver.
Max Wyman
An interview with one of Canada’s most respected cultural commentators, author, dance critic, former politician, playwright, former President of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Max Wyman, on the importance of employing the arts in all aspects of society, particularly education.
Judith Marcuse
Choreographer (Judith Marcuse Projects) Judith Marcuse is also the founder and co-director of the Vancouver-based International Centre of Art for Social Change. In an afternoon at her home she talks about the uses of art in social movements.
Eric Deis
A young artist on his first public art commission.
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