MFA Low Residency Speaker Series: Gareth James
Announcing the MFA Low Residency Speaker Series of distinguished artists.
Room 245, North Building
The MFA Low Residency Speaker Series brings distinguished local and international artists to the ECU campus. This year, we are happy to announce that these sessions will be open to the public.
The first guest in our series is Gareth James. Gareth is an internationally exhibited artist, previously based in London and New York before joining the University of British Columbia in the summer of 2010. James’ work is constituted through his abiding interest in histories of iconoclasm in which the social divisions and inequities that mark and delimit artistic practice are registered most emphatically. In James’ practice as an artist and as a writer, conventional aesthetic discourse is lost and rediscovered in neighbouring fields such as topology or psychoanalysis; capitalist property relations are seen to exert as much determinative force on the visual field as phenomenological bodies; and theoretical materials are indistinct from physical ones in an incipient philosophy of materials.