Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Pigeon, Seagull & Crow: Centre A Chronicles

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Centre A's inaugural podcast explores different pivotal points in our 25-year history, featuring 8 artists/curators whom we have worked with since our inception in 1999.Besides their wide range of practices, we also talk about Centre A’s role within the evolving contemporary art scene in Vancouver and Canada, touching on topics such as community organizing, intergenerational connection, migration experiences and the changing cultural landscape within the Asian-Canadian sphere. Music by Sierra Lima, a Chinese-Canadian artist/organizer hailing from Shanghai, now based in so-called Vancouver.

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Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Episodes

Lan "Florence" Yee 12.09.2024 40:46

In our last episode, Lan "Florence" Yee provides insights into their prolific art practice, touching on a wide range of topics such as working with archives and heritage, community-building in Chinatowns, and navigating the systems within contemporary art in Canada.

Patrick Cruz 20.07.2024 28:12

In our second last episode, Patrick Cruz talks about his current interest in the topic of past life regression (PLR), working in the arts, and his experience as a professor.

Diyan Achjadi 28.06.2024 26:37

In this episode, artist and professor Diyan Achjadi discusses their practice of pattern-making through printmaking and animation as a tool to tell stories of Indonesian diaspora and histories.

Paul de Guzman 23.05.2024 32:46

In this episode, Paul de Guzman talks about his artistic experiments coming from a background in engineering, the changing landscapes that reshape the meaning of heritage and belonging for him, and vlogging as one of his many creative mediums.

Gu Xiong 20.04.2024 31:32

Multimedia artist and professor Gu Xiong talks about his transnational experience as an artist and an immigrant as well as his project 'The Remains of a Journey', which investigates the history and memories of early Chinese labourers in British Columbia.

David Khang 19.03.2024 37:22

Artist, dentist and lawyer David Khang talks about his career journeys, his 2008 show How to Feed a Piano, where he had Robbie the Horse in Centre A's gallery space for his performance, and his thoughts on art’s responsibility and legacy today.

Makiko Hara 12.02.2024 40:32

Curator Makiko Hara talks about her first experience arriving in “Vancouver” in the 90s, how Centre A’s historical locations contextualized its programming and her recent curatorial work at Centre A and Vancouver Art Gallery: Offsite.

Hank Bull 30.01.2024 33:18

Our first podcast guest and the founder of Centre A, Hank Bull talks about the start of his career, the early days of Centre A and Vancouver’s Asian-Canadian art scene in the 2000s.