by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 24, 2015 | Appropriation, Architecture, Cultural Hub, Doilies, Doily, Graffiti, Green Space, Guerrilla Art, Mural, Political Art, Protest, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Wrap I, Wrap II
One of a handful of Vancouver’s ‘country lanes’ from a 2002 pilot projects. (Photo: Ben Nelms for National Post) And yet.And yet there is nothing like an untenable situation to spark a creative response. There is evidence of it in the spaces between,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 20, 2015 | Art Discourse, Art History, Critique, Guerrilla Art, Guerrilla Girls, Male Gaze
Rania El-Alloul says she a Quebec judge told her to remove her headscarf. (cbc.ca photo) When I see the debate raging around women wearing the hajib (head scarf) or niqab (cloth covering the face) in Canada, I think about the male gaze. The latest...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 7, 2014 | Art Discourse, Art School, Culture Jamming, Dude-chilling-park, Fabricating, Guerrilla Art, Industrial Design, Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Social History
It’s official: the Dude Chilling Park sign, a guerrilla-art installation by recent Emily Carr industrial design grad Viktor Briestensky, has been reinstated, with full approval by the city’s parks board.Something was gained, but something was lost in...
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