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Yaazhin Pillay

Sessional Faculty

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Education:

BFA
MFA

Bio

Yaazhin Pillay is a visual artist and post-secondary instructor based in Vancouver. He aims to honor and explore Global Southern histories and perspectives to find new means for resistant action and decolonial methodologies. As a South African Indian, Yaazhin examines the experience of diasporic communities and attempts to highlight global networks of solidarity created through shared experience, tradition and resistance. His works promote an anti-apartheid, anti-imperial, anti-capitalist perspective, featuring imagery from Vedic philosophy and revolutionary movements. He regards the continued fight for freedom and prosperity within indigenous and liberated communities, globally, as the fundamental motivation of his production.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Illustration ILUS 410 27/SP

Description

This Senior Illustration Studio course provides students with the opportunity to propose and develop a self-directed body of work. Sections are taught by a single faculty member or offered in a team-taught model. Whether through assigned projects, artistic production, research, discussions, writing and critique, students are expected to increase their understanding of the content and context of their process and production as well as their knowledge of contemporary illustration. Students will consider different formats for their output relevant to a range of diverse professional, artistic outlets. Students meet regularly for group seminars as well as in one-to-one tutorials with their instructor(s). Critiques and discussions complement studio production where considerable independent time and maturity is expected.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Illustration ILUS 206 27/SP

Description

This course is designed to introduce students to the ways that ideas can be generated for the purpose of illustration, and how they can be expressed through sequencing processes. Using conceptual and logistic prompts, students will reference historical image making strategies and contemporary formats as they relate to both single and sequential works, underscoring the importance of iteration, critical thinking, and visual problem-solving as integral parts of the ideation process. Through workshops, lectures, and demonstrations, students will explore sequential narrative techniques using series, catalogue, and paneled pages at the individual and communal classroom level.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Illustration ILUS 206 26/FA

Description

This course is designed to introduce students to the ways that ideas can be generated for the purpose of illustration, and how they can be expressed through sequencing processes. Using conceptual and logistic prompts, students will reference historical image making strategies and contemporary formats as they relate to both single and sequential works, underscoring the importance of iteration, critical thinking, and visual problem-solving as integral parts of the ideation process. Through workshops, lectures, and demonstrations, students will explore sequential narrative techniques using series, catalogue, and paneled pages at the individual and communal classroom level.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Illustration ILUS 400 26/FA

Description

Offered to Illustration Majors, this senior course allows illustration students in their final year of study to work closely with peers and faculty to plan and execute a final project. Students can choose to initiate either individual or group projects. The emphasis is on students developing a body of work that is intellectually and artistically sophisticated as well as to undertake research to support their emerging practice. Students will participate in presentations, critiques, discussions of readings and of ongoing, self-directed projects as well as preparing their own bodies of work for exhibition and/or applied presentation.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.