Everything This Changes: Recent Episodes
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
"Everything This Changes" is programming initiated by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut the doors of galleries and many businesses while keeping most of us working at home. "Everything This Changes" adds to the Belkin's online presence as a platform for works of art, research projects, podcasts, interviews, conversations and events. One of our tasks is to explore new relationships and possibilities between embodiment, especially in social space, and the disembodied lives we lead on screen. This relationship has been the subject of critique and speculation since the invention of the telephone and radio. In what ways have artists and thinkers prepared us for thinking about the present crisis? Or to put it another way, how does the present crisis change the way we see and read?
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’s collaborative practice has considered both the prevalence of statistical thinking evident in graphs and models and an examination of interspecies care through data-gathering. As we are immersed in a collective effort to alter statistical projections with our very behaviour, Ibghy and Lemmens bring a fascinating perspective on our present circumstances..
Lorna Brown, Associate Director and Curator at the Belkin, interviews Holly Schmidt, the Outdoor Art Program’s artist in residence at UBC. Schmidt’s residency at UBC that she has titled Vegetal Encounters began in the fall of 2018 and will extend into 2021, taking the framework of a slow, unfolding process of exploration and research with different departments.