![]() In 2004, Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen and Helmut Weber have formed the urban research collective Urban Subjects. Recently Urban Subjects curated the exhibition “The Militant Image - Picturing What Is Already Going On” with Camera Austria, Graz, participated in Western Front’s “Urgent Imagination” and in Jayce Salloum’s project ThirstDays. In 2015 Bitter/Weber were artists in residence from The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria at the Studio Grand Chelsea, New York City. Recent projects and exhibitions include 2016: “Fleeting Territories”, urbanize!-festival, Vienna “What’s Left?”, MuseumsQuartier Vienna “Trophäen ihrer Excellenz”, Schauraum der Angewandten, MQ21, Vienna "Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade", Gallery GPLcontemporary, Vienna ”How We Want to Live”, Façade art project for BUWOG headquarters, Vienna. Dealing with architecture as a frame for spatial meaning, their ongoing research includes projects like “Educational Modernism” and “Housing the Social”. Mainly working in the media of photography and spatial installations their research-oriented practice engages with specific moments and logics of the global-urban change as they take shape in neighborhoods, architecture, and everyday life. Vancouver-based artist Sabine Bitter collaborates with Vienna-based artist Helmut Weber on projects addressing cities, architecture, and the politics of representation and of space since 1993. and Ph.D., University of British Columbia Between 20 Peter regularly documented Vancouver performance practice at. Also a playwright, productions of Peter’s work include The Objecthood of Chairs (SFU Woodward’s, 2010), Positive ID (Berkeley Theatre, Toronto, 2012), Long Division (Pi Theatre, 2016/17), The Bathers (excerpt, Zee Zee Theatre, 2017), and At the Speed of Light (Pi Theatre, 2022). Peter’s essays have appeared in Dance Research Journal, Modern Drama, Screen, TDR: The Drama Review, Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Journal, Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Survey, CinéAction, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, as well as numerous other journals and edited collections. His most recent book is My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community (2020), a performance ethnography of his collaborations (as a writer, researcher, facilitator, outside eye, co-creator, and occasional mover) with several Vancouver-based dance artists and companies. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of thirteen books and special journal issues, including: World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place, and Politics (2010) Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice (2014) Mega-Event Cities: Art/Audiences/Aftermaths (2016) and Q2Q: Queer Theatre and Performance in Canada (2018). Peter Dickinson Professor & Associate Director Art, Performance & Cinema Studies E: Performance Studies.Ī performance studies scholar and the Director of SFU’s Institute for Performance Studies, Peter’s research investigates the time- and place-based relationships between audience and event across a range of aesthetic practices (including dance, theatre, film, and performance art) and social formations (from same-sex marriage to civic branding to urban mega-events). In 2011, a monograph was published that considers her work through the presentation of six scholarly essays and images. Recently, she has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, including a collaboration on a major commission for the Richmond Olympic Oval, and was invited by the Vancouver Art Gallery to be the fourth artist to participate in Offsite, their outdoor public art space. This line of questioning is considered in relation to the conceptualization of abstract space, a place where definition is nascent and possibility is inherent. It is in this tension, between definition and possibility that provides the core of her research. The sculptural practice of Elspeth Pratt interrogates the relation between how everyday space is constructed and how that same space is defined through architecture and lived space. Elspeth Pratt Associate Professor & Director Visual Art E: 77Īreas: Elspeth Pratt teaches visual art core courses, sculptural practices, drawing and undergraduate art theory seminars.
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