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Vancouver art & economies

Author: Melanie O Brian
Category: Catalogue
Publisher: Artspeak/Arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551522144
Year: 2007
Subject: Vancouver, Canada, arts, économies, contemporary art
Description: Since the mid 1980s, the once marginal city of Vancouver has developed within a globalised economy and become an internationally recognised centre for contemporary visual art. Vancouver`s status is due not only to a thriving worldwide cultural community that has turned to examine the so-called periphery, but to the cities growth, its artists, expanding institutions, and a strong history of introspection and critical assessment. As a result, Vancouver art is visible and often understood as distinct and definable.

This anthology intends to complicate the notions of definability. It offers nine essays to address the organised systems that have affected contemporary art in Vancouver over the last two decades. The essays in Vancouver art and Economies collectively remark, both compatibly and contradictorily, on the economies at work in Vancouver art- its historical, critical, and political engagements; its sites of cultural productions; and its theoretical and practical intersection with technology or policy.
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