The Vancouver Art GalleryintroducesVancouver Special, a survey exhibition that will occur every three years. The triennial model offers a sustained engagement with the contemporary artists who make Vancouver a dynamic art community. Disorientations and Echois the second iteration of this series and provides an expansive look at contemporary art in thexmkym (Musqueam), Swxw7mesh (Squamish) and slilwta (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver and neighbouring territories.

Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echoisthe second in what is envisioned as a series of exhibitions intended to provide an expansive look at contemporary art in the Greater Vancouver region. For the 2021 version ofVancouver Special, primary emphasis is on recent works that hold a particular resonance for this time and place that have not been previously exhibited in Vancouver. The exhibition reflects the activity of both artists at an early point in their career and more established artists whose practices span several decades. Encompassing a variety of media, scale and modes of presentation, the artworks on display address themes that include cultural resilience, the articulation of suppressed histories, the imagining of emancipated futures, the performance of identity and embodied knowledge.

Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echois organized by five co-curators: artist, curator and cultural critic Phanuel Antwi; artist, University of British Columbia assistant professor and curator Jeneen Frei Njootli; independent curator and author Jenn Jackson; artist and independent curator Christian Vistan; and Audain Curator of British Columbia Art, Grant Arnold.Presented from May 29, 2021 to January 3, 2022.

Editors: Phanuel Antwi, Grant Arnold, Jenn Jackson and Christian Vistan

144pages
8 x 10.5 inches
ISBN 9781988860152
Softcover
Vancouver Art Gallery and Information Office
2022