大象传媒

PANELISTS

Larissa Fassler was born on the unceded territories of the xwm蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), the Sk瘫wx瘫w煤7mesh (Squamish) and s蓹lilw蓹ta涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples currently known as Vancouver, Canada. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 1999. Fassler holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal and a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Selected solo exhibitions include Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, New Hampshire), Br枚han Museum (Berlin), Esker Foundation (Calgary, Alberta), the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris), Hessen State Museum Darmstadt, and Galerie Poggi (Paris). Group exhibitions of note include the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario), a public art commission by KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and the 11th S茫o Paulo Architecture Biennial. Her work was nominated for the 2018 MAC International Contemporary Art Prize (Belfast) and the 2019 Berlin Art Prize.Fassler is represented by Galerie Poggi, Paris.

Diana Sherlock is a Canadian independent curator and writer. She is a settler of English/Scottish/Irish heritage who is thankful to have lived most of her life in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta) and to have worked with many artists who make their homes in the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut鈥檌na, 脦y芒xe Nakoda, and M茅tis Nation 3 in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. Sherlock has published over eighty texts in gallery catalogues and contemporary art journals internationally, including Border Crossings, Canadian Art, CMagazine, FUSE, BlackFlash, Ceramics: Art and Perception, .dpi Feminist Journal of Art and Digital Culture, Galleries West, and the Calgary Herald. Her essay, Capitalizing on community: The makerspace phenomenon, is included in the anthology The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design, edited by Nicole Burisch and Anthea Black (Bloomsbury, UK, 2021). She is the editor of Rita McKeough: Works, a monograph including a full-length album and an artist鈥檚 multiple representing this significant Canadian artist鈥檚 performances and installations (EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, M:ST Performative Art, and TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary, 2018). Larissa Fassler: Viewshed is her most recently edited monograph (DISTANZ, Berlin, 2022). Sherlock is a consultant with CMCK Public Art, with whom she has coauthored curatorial assessments of both the City of Calgary鈥檚 and the City of Edmonton鈥檚 public art collections. Mary Shannon Will: People, Places and Things (2020鈥�21, Nickle Galleries, Calgary) was her most recent curatorial project. She taught curatorial and professional practices at the Alberta College of Art and Design (now Alberta University of the Arts) for twenty years.

Annabel Vaughan, OAA MRAIC, is an architect and project manager at ERA Architects, she recently returned to work and live on the unceded traditional territories of the x史m蓹胃k史蓹j藔蓹m (Musqueam), S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh (Squamish), and s蓹l虛ilw蓹ta蓙涩 (Tsleil Waututh) First Nations (aka Vancouver), to manage projects in BC. She received her Master of Architecture from UBC, where her thesis examined the use of heritage buildings as mnemonic devices for the collective memory of cities and their public lives.