Upcoming Public Programs

Robert Snowden
Curator’s Talk

Thursday, 24 May, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, 204
Free

Robert Snowden is a curator at YU, a new contemporary art centre in Portland. He is faculty of the 2012 Visual Arts residency LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL… with Angie Keefer, Isla Leaver-Yap, and Will Holder.

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Exhibition Tours

Thursday, 24 May, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 31 May, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 7 June, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 14 June, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 21 June, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 28 June, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 5 July, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 12 July, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery
Free

Join Walter Phillips Gallery staff every Thursday night for an exhibition tour of BigBoxGreenScreenRefrigeratorActions, Mark Leckey’s first solo exhibition in Western Canada.

The UK-based artist and Turner Prize recipient presents two recent works: GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction (2010) and BigBoxNaturalAction (2012). Leckey’s multi-disciplinary practice includes sculpture, performance, print-making, sound, and moving image.

Will Holder
Artist’s Talk

Tuesday, 29 May, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, 204
Free

Will Holder is a London-based typographer, writer and editor, preoccupied with conversation as tool and model for a mutual and improvised set of publishing conditions.

Holder is faculty of the 2012 Visual Arts residency LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL… with Angie Keefer, Isla Leaver-Yap, and Robert Snowden.

Drawn to Nature

Friday, 8 June, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, 13 July, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, 10 August, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Banff Park Museum National Historic Site
Free

The Walter Phillips Gallery in collaboration with the Banff Park Museum National Historic Site presents Drawn to Nature: a series of monthly drawing sessions held in the museum. 

Participants of all ages and levels of experience will be welcomed into the museum afterhours, to explore various still-life sketching techniques in an informal drawing session inspired by the rich history of the museum’s collection.

Advanced registration is required. Please contact Walter Phillips Gallery at 403-762-6281. All materials will be provided.

Banff Park Museum National Historic Site, 91 Banff Ave.

Teen Zine Night

Saturday, 9 June, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Banff Public Library
Free

Zines are a fast do-it-yourself publishing format that can easily be used to communicate a broad range of personal topics and interests. Walter Phillips Gallery in collaboration with the Banff Public Library present Teen Zine Night, an evening workshop for teens led by educator Tonya Lowe. 

Participants will work collaboratively to produce zines which explore their obsessions, passions, and imaginations through text and photocopied images from the materials in the library and various online sources. 

Silke Otto-Knapp
Artist’s Talk

Tuesday, 19 June, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, 204
Free

Silke Otto-Knapp is a painter based in London who works in watercolour on canvas to create pictures of great translucency and delicacy.  

Otto-Knapp is lead faculty, with Jan Verwoert, of the 2012 Visual Arts residency A PAPER A DRAWING A MOUNTAIN, with guests Karl Holmqvist and Mark Leckey.

Jan Verwoert
Critic’s Talk

Tuesday, 26 June, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, 204
Free

Jan Verwoert is a Berlin-based internationally renowned art critic and sometime curator. He is lead faculty, with Silke Otto-Knapp, of the 2012 Visual Arts residency A PAPER A DRAWING A MOUNTAIN, with guests Karl Holmqvist and Mark Leckey.

Mark Leckey Artist’s Talk

Thursday, 12 July, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Max Bell 252
Free

Mark Leckey is an artist who lives and works in London. Leckey has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally and has recently had solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2011); Milton Keynes Gallery (2010); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2009); Le Consortium, Dijon (2007); Portikus, Frankfurt (2005); and Migros Museum, Zurich (2003). He’s been included in several important international exhibitions including 10,000 Lives: The Eighth Gwangju Biennale (2010); Moving Images: Artists & Video/Film, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2010); Playing Homage, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2009); Sympathy for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007); 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005); Manifesta 5, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (2004); Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London (1999), among others.

Leckey has presented his lecture/performances at the ICA; the Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. In 2008 Leckey received the Turner Prize. From 2005 to 2009 Leckey was professor of Film Studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. His work is included in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MoMA, New York; Tate Gallery, London; The Trussardi Foundation, Milan; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.  

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Mark Leckey Performance

Friday, 13 July, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery
Free

As part of the exhibition BigBoxGreenScreenRefrigeratorActions, artist Mark Leckey will perform BigBoxNaturalAction in the gallery. A live voice and sound composition will be performed and played out of the artist’s large sculptural speaker stack towards a monumental slab of Rundle rock, reactivating the layers of ancient sediment, atom by atom. 

Art Walk

Saturday, 14 July, 2012, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, 18 August, 2012, 2:00 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery
Free

Join Walter Phillips Gallery staff for an informative one-hour tour of public art work at The Banff Centre campus, including recent acquisitions and commissions such as Brian Jungen’s The ghosts on top of my head (2010-11) and Mark Clintberg’s Meet me in the woods (2010).

Karl Holmqvist Performance

Friday, 20 July, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Professional Development Centre Room 103
Free

Karl Holmqvist presents a reading of his recent work. Holmqvist lives and works in Stockholm and Berlin and has participated in numerous important international exhibitions, including Manifesta 7 (2008), Trento, and Manifesta 8 (2010), Murcia; PERFORMA05 and PERFORMA07, New York; as well as the ILLUMInations section of the 54th Venice Biennale (2011). Recent exhibitions include: The Visit no.5, Bergen Kunsthall (2012); The Sun Shines for Everyone, Kunsthalle Zurich (2011); Palace Party, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2011); and Je Ne Travaille Jamais, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010). In 2012 he will participate in the group exhibition Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and will have a solo exhibition at Alex Zachary Peter Currie, also in New York.

Geoffrey Farmer
Artist’s Talk

Tuesday, 31 July, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Kinnear Centre Ground Floor Husky Great Hall #101
Free

Vancouver artist Geoffrey Farmer’s research-based projects result in multi-media installations that combine video, film, performance, drawing, sculpture, found objects and texts.

Farmer is lead faculty of the 2012 Visual Arts residency Studio Time: Work of the Living Watch.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Thursday, 2 August, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Kinnear Centre 2nd Floor #205
Free

Time, Retreat, Earth and the Cooked Object as a Space for Aesthetics and Politics

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13), is a curator and writer based in Rome, Kassel, and New York.  

She is faculty of The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13), Banff Research in Culture creative residency, 2012.

Bruno Bosteels
In Praise of Discrepancy? Art and Ideology Revisited

Friday, 3 August, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Kinnear Centre 2nd Floor #205
Free

Cornell University professor Bruno Bosteels has written extensively on modern Latin American literature and culture, contemporary European philosophy and political theory, and art and aesthetic theory.  

Bosteels is faculty of The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13), Banff Research in Culture creative residency, 2012.

Bifo - Franco Berardi

Tuesday, 7 August, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Kinnear Centre 2nd Floor #205
Free

The Worldwide Conspiracy Called Movement: Collective Mantra as a Retournel for the Emancipation from the Abstract Rhythm of Financial Capitalism

Bifo - Franco Berardi, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He is Coordinator of the European School for Social Imagination (SCEPSI).  

Bifo is faculty of The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13), Banff Research in Culture creative residency, 2012.

Gáspár Miklós Tamás

Wednesday, 8 August, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Kinnear Centre 2nd Floor #205
Free

Aisthesis: How to Personalize Capitalism without Becoming a Fascist

Gáspár Miklós Tamás is a Hungarian philosopher, prolific essay-writer, and leading figure in East European dissident movements.  

He is faculty of The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13), Banff Research in Culture creative residency, 2012.

Catherine Malabou

Thursday, 9 August, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Kinnear Centre 2nd Floor #205
Free

Can “Retreat” be a Metaphor? A Reflection on Meaning after Heidegger’s Withdrawal

Catherine Malabou is a French philosopher whose work explores neuroscience, psychoanalysis and political philosophy, among other topics.  

Malabou is faculty of The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13), Banff Research in Culture creative residency, 2012.

Pierre Huyghe
The Association of Freed Time   

Friday, 10 August, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Kinnear Centre 2nd Floor #205
Free

Renowned French artist Pierre Huyghe has had numerous international solo exhibitions at such venues as Tate Modern, London, Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.  

Huyghe is faculty of The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13), Banff Research in Culture creative residency, 2012.

Shutterbugs and Butterflies

Saturday, 11 August, 2012, 1:00 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery, Butterfly Garden
Free

Calgary-based master gardener Katherine Ylitalo will present a talk about the traditional healing and spiritual properties of the native plant species found in Mike MacDonald’s Butterfly Garden.

Followed by a workshop with Calgary-based photographer Dianne Bos, who will teach a participants how to construct a simple pinhole camera to create lasting images of the garden and its plants.

Please contact Walter Phillips Gallery to register at 403-762-6281. Recommended for ages 12+

Art in the Library, Books in the Studio

Sunday, 19 August, 2012, 12:00 p.m.
Library & Archives
Free

The artist book collection at The Banff Centre’s Paul D. Fleck Library will be the starting point of this creative and informative community workshop. Art librarian Suzanne Rackover will provide an introduction to the collection and give participants an opportunity to view and handle various examples from the library’s extensive collection, including important Fluxus works and books by Yoko Ono and Lawrence Weiner.

Banff-based printmaker and book artist Wendy Tokaryk will then lead participants in a foundational bookmaking workshop, which will introduce traditional binding methods, including several different sewing stitches and layout designs. By the end of the session, participants will have constructed their own personal handmade book to take home.  

Please contact Walter Phillips Gallery to register at 403-762-6281. This free event runs from 12 noon to 4:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives.