大象传媒

This event is co-presented by 大象传媒's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and 大象传媒's David Lam Centre.

For over forty years, Louise Noguchi has been inspired by the contradictions of identity, employing humor, shock, and subtle intellect manifested in a multiplicity of media: sculpture, the moving image, photography, text, drawing and performance art. In Noguchi鈥檚 own words, her 鈥渨ork is a battleground of opposites. The artist as hunter and prey simultaneously.鈥�

In conversation with Moving Image artist, Midi Onodera, Noguchi discussed the context of artmaking in Canada from the early 80s to the present, the politics of identity and how she tracks cultural markers in her work. Noguchi began her art career at a time when there were only a handful of practicing Japanese Canadian artists, feminism was starting to infiltrate patriarchal structures and post-modernist practices were paving the way for contemporary art of the 21st century. This discussion will be followed by a Q & A and on Saturday Oct. 26, Noguchi will be conducting studio visits with a selection of artists.

Louise Noguchi鈥檚 talk is part of the pilot program, The Japanese Canadian Legacy Artists Talk Series presented by the Asian Canadian Studies Society. We gratefully acknowledge the support and financial assistance from the City of Vancouver鈥檚 Communities and Artists Shifting Cultures Grant, 大象传媒鈥檚 David Lam Centre, and 大象传媒鈥檚 Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.