Podcast
Pigeon, Seagull & Crow: Centre A Chronicles
Hosted by Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art · EN
Centre A's inaugural podcast explores different pivotal points in our 25-year history, featuring 8 artists/curators whom we have worked with since our inception in 1999.
Besides their wide range of practices, we also talk about Centre A’s role within the evolving contemporary art scene in Vancouver and Canada, touching on topics such as community organizing, intergenerational connection, migration experiences and the changing cultural landscape within the Asian-Canadian sphere.
Music by Sierra Lima, a Chinese-Canadian artist/organizer hailing from Shanghai, now based in so-called Vancouver.
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Lan "Florence" Yee
Sep 12, 202400:40:46Tap to summarizeIn our last episode, Lan "Florence" Yee provides insights into their prolific art practice, touching on a wide range of topics such as working with archives and heritage, community-building in Chinatowns, and navigating the systems within contemporary art in Canada.
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Patrick Cruz
Jul 20, 202400:28:12Tap to summarizeIn our second last episode, Patrick Cruz talks about his current interest in the topic of past life regression (PLR), working in the arts, and his experience as a professor.
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Diyan Achjadi
Jun 28, 202400:26:37Tap to summarizeIn this episode, artist and professor Diyan Achjadi discusses their practice of pattern-making through printmaking and animation as a tool to tell stories of Indonesian diaspora and histories.
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Paul de Guzman
May 23, 202400:32:46Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Paul de Guzman talks about his artistic experiments coming from a background in engineering, the changing landscapes that reshape the meaning of heritage and belonging for him, and vlogging as one of his many creative mediums.
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Gu Xiong
Apr 20, 202400:31:32Tap to summarizeMultimedia artist and professor Gu Xiong talks about his transnational experience as an artist and an immigrant as well as his project 'The Remains of a Journey', which investigates the history and memories of early Chinese labourers in British Columbia.
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David Khang
Mar 19, 202400:37:22Tap to summarizeArtist, dentist and lawyer David Khang talks about his career journeys, his 2008 show How to Feed a Piano, where he had Robbie the Horse in Centre A's gallery space for his performance, and his thoughts on art’s responsibility and legacy today.
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Makiko Hara
Feb 12, 202400:40:32Tap to summarizeCurator Makiko Hara talks about her first experience arriving in “Vancouver” in the 90s, how Centre A’s historical locations contextualized its programming and her recent curatorial work at Centre A and Vancouver Art Gallery: Offsite.
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Hank Bull
Jan 30, 202400:33:18Tap to summarizeOur first podcast guest and the founder of Centre A, Hank Bull talks about the start of his career, the early days of Centre A and Vancouver’s Asian-Canadian art scene in the 2000s.
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