Speculation and Performance in Art and Finance

Nov 16, 2016
  • 2:00-5:00 pm
  • Location:
    Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
    1961 East Mall, UBC
    Vancouver, BC

Speculation in Art and Finance Symposium gathers artists Goldin+Senneby and Marianne Nicolson along with geographer Geoff Mann in preparation for our upcoming exhibitions To refuse/To wait/To sleep and M&A. Opening at the Belkin in January 2017, these projects will bring together artists investigating belief and prediction in economic models, precarious labour, illicit and marginalized markets and other concerns. In advance of the exhibitions, this symposium brings together artists and scholars to explore the exhibit themes through an interdisciplinary lens. Artists-in-residence Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby – whose work explores juridical, financial and spatial constructs through notions of the performative and the virtual – are visiting the Belkin in advance of the project. They will be joined by Geoff Mann, author of Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism and artist Marianne Nicolson, whose current research looks at an early experiment with capitalism on the part of the Kwakwaka’wakw people of the Northwest Coast in collaboration with “Boston men” (Americans) for markets in China. The symposium will be moderated by Jaleh Mansoor, UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.
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A Peter Wall Institute Arts-Based Initiative Award funded the residency of Goldin+Senneby.

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