Take a closer look at renowned Vancouver artist Hank Bull
Date/Time: Apr 2 2017, 12:00 am to 5:00 pm
Burnaby, Burnaby Art GalleryCost: donation is $5
Hank Bull: Connexion transforms the Vancouver-based artist’s collection and archives into a sculptural installation, illuminating over four decades of Bull’s prolific collaborations with artists and artistic communities internationally.
Inspired by experimental music, mail art, Fluxus, Dada and pataphysics, much of Bull’s practice has been ephemeral and dialogic, produced for underground audiences in artist-run and improvised contexts. Yet material things have played an important role as documents, props, and aesthetic objects in their own right. Through the material traces of life lived as art, Connexion proposes an expanded idea of the artist as a connector of people, and of objects as active generators of meaning.
Developing global networks years before the Internet, Bull’s work parallels a wider shift towards the collaborative and pluralistic interactions of our networked present. In this context, Connexion offers insights into experimentations with collective ways of working together at a moment when new social forms are urgently needed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Interdisciplinary artist and arts organizer, Hank Bull has been an influential leader in Canada’s contemporary art community for over four decades. Born in Calgary, Bull has worked and lived much of his life in Vancouver. Associated in many ways with the artist-run centre Western Front, his own work has been widely shown and is held in the permanent collections of the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). He co-founded Centre A (the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art) in 1999 and was its Executive Director until 2010. In 2014 he received an honourary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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