Chatter & Whirr Events: Vancouver

VIVO Media Arts Centre

1965 Main Street, Vancouver

February 18, 19, 20, 8pm

VIVO Media Arts Centre and Father Zosima Present: YOUR HIT PARADE

Featuring the newest, bravest, and most innovative sounds from the world’s most acclaimed artists. Three provocative nights of genre-shattering live performances. Tickets Available at the Door/ $10 per night-$25 for three nights.

Gallery Gachet

88 Cordova Street East, Vancouver

February 20, 6pm

Chatter and Whirr Meet and Greet

Pierre Allard and Annie Roy of ATSA – Action Terrortiste Socialement Acceptable will make presentation about the organization including a video feature of their project ”Etat d’urgence” (Stage of Emergency). More information at www.atsa.qc.ca.

 

Access Gallery

206 Carrall Street, Vancouver

February 20, 7pm

Opening Reception

Sean Coggins: F.W.T.B.T. (I Dream of Lars Ulrich Being Thrown Through the Bus Window Instead of My Master Mystikall Kliff Burton)

Sean Coggins and Jesse Garbe: Happy Belated Birthday Charles! Regards, Wallace

Both exhibits run until April 4.

 

Gallery Gachet

88 Cordova Street East, Vancouver

February 20, 7pm

Opening Reception

Fearless Muses: Making Your Own Media Exhibition

 

Artspeak

233 Carrall Street Vancouver

February 20, 8pm

Opening Reception

Artspeak and Fillip present: Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism: Reading Room

A complement to a two-day forum on the state of contemporary art criticism (February 27 and 28 ) in the form of a reading room of texts, publications and journals related to issues of judgment in contemporary art criticism allowing a space for study, conversation and information.

Exhibit runs until March 28.

 

Grunt Gallery

116 – 350 East 2nd Ave, Vancouver

February 20, 8pm

Opening Reception

Andrea Cooper: Fickle as Poison

An exploration of the limits of visual and oral language, female sexuality and its relationship to the psyche, the convergence of place and identity, and the “dream-logic beneath the surface of things” using non-conventional narrative combined with complementary photographs and text to retell a family story of desire and death.

University of British Columbia

February 20 9:30am-4pm

W2 Fearless City Mobile Camp

Moose Camp Mobile Track Sessions: A day of chatter and whirr on community-generated media presented in association with Northern Voice and Institute of Popular Education of Southern California.

W2 Launch Pad – 116 W Hastings, Vancouver

February 20, 9pm

Installation

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Artspeak 

233 Carrall Street, Vancouver

February 21, 12noon

Artist Talk

Christian Kliegel will speak about his ONSITE project at Artspeak which transforms Artspeak’s functionality and aesthetic to create a dynamic, multi-layered and multi-functional environment to be used as a bookstore, display space and event venue. Kliegel has interwoven the imagined uses of the space into a malleable series of grids and surfaces that will adapt to the rotating projects and events occupying the space over the next two years.

 

Access Gallery

206 Carrall Street, Vancouver

February 21, 4pm

Artist Talk

Sean Coggins and Jesse Garbe discuss their projects currently on exhibition which individually address the folklore and semiotics of Black Metal music and celebrate the 200th birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin.

 

Western Front

303 8th Avenue East, Vancouver

February 21, 7pm

Chatter & Whirr Panel Discussion

Current director/curators of ARCs, past and founding members of ARC’s, and individuals that are involved in younger organization that are operating within the scope of an artist-run centre will discuss and answer questions about the work produced within artist-run culture.