December 3, 2015 – January 31, 2016
As part of the Nitobe Memorial Garden Concepts and Prospects symposium, the research curators of the Collective for the Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts (CAUSA) present a multi-site exhibition at UBC. Locations include:
- Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (Level 2, Main Foyer art gallery)
- Rare Books and Special Collections (IKBLC level 1)
- Asian Centre and Library
Developing from affiliations with the Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research (as initiated by Joseph Beuys and Heinrich Böll), CAUSA – Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts – aims to develop autonomous scholarly analysis and interpretation of visual culture (including problems of intelligibility) within specific historical contexts. CAUSA functions in association with a ‘global village’ network of independent and institutional scholars – in tandem with a pluralistic community of socially engaged contemporary artists.
In its affiliation with the University of Manitoba Asian Studies Centre, CAUSA sustains a continuative process of philosophical reflection by connecting its programme of research to an expansive glimmering that was first formulated by Marshall McLuhan. He advises us, assuredly: “We may be drowning. But if so, the flood of experience in which we are drowning is very much a part of the culture we have created. The flood is not something outside our culture. It is a self-invasion of privacy. And so it is not catastrophic. We can turn it off if we choose, if we wake up to the fact that the faucets of change are inside the ark of society, not outside.”
– CAUSA Curators
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CAUSA (Collective for the Advancement of Unified Studies in the Visual Arts) has functioned, since 2003, with the aim of opening channels of communication concerning aspects of cultural memory in relation to independent curatorial research. CAUSA strives to develop autonomous scholarly analysis and interpretation of visual culture (including problems of intelligibility) within specific historical contexts. Recent curatorial initiatives have been realized by CAUSA in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (University of British Columbia), Walter Phillips Art Gallery (The Banff Centre), Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), the West Vancouver Museum, Artspeak, Vancouver and North Vancouver City Library
Curatorial Component from the multi-site exhibition VAST OCEAN / VAST HEAVEN –a CAUSA research project.
” … ‘VAST’…”. [Image: M. Cynog Evans.]
IAIN BAXTER& / CAUSA … UNTIL THE AND OF TIME …. [Photo: M. Cynog Evans.]
