Lectures and Talks
Art Connects | Stephanie Comilang: The Practices of Care
Mon Mar 8, 2021 | 12 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery
Stephanie Comilang, Photo: Leroy Schulz
Monday, March 8 | 12 PM
On International Women’s Day, join artist Stephanie Comilang, winner of the 2019 Sobey Art Award, in conversation with Director of Education and Public Programs Melissa Karmen Lee to discuss the art and labour of care.
What are the politics of feminine caregiving? How can we imagine and take advantage of new practices developed in response to our pandemic situations that no longer tether domesticity to feminized forms of care? How do we create new sight lines of knowledge, recognition and alliance in which art takes an ethical dimension, reordering the pain and pleasure of being in the world, of memorializing, of taking care?
This program will feature excerpts from Comilang’s work Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise) (2016), a science-fiction documentary made in collaboration with Filipina migrant workers Irish May Salinas, Lyra Ancheta Torbela and Romylyn Presto Sampaga. Comilang’s artistic practice explores the geopolitics of economic migration and citizenship labour and investigates questions around domesticity. The film also considers how technology is used as a pivotal method to care for and connect with each other and loved ones.
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ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
CART Services (Communication Access Realtime Translation) are available for Public Programs upon request. Please provide seven business days of advance notice prior to an event. We will make every effort to meet requests made outside of this window of time.
To place a request, please contact Public Programs Coordinator Stephanie Bokenfohr by email at sbokenfohr@vanartgallery.bc.ca or by phone at (604) 662-4700.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stephanie Comilang is an artist living and working between Toronto and Berlin. Her documentary-based works create narratives that look at how our understandings of mobility, capital and labour on a global scale are shaped through various cultural and social factors. Her work has been shown at Transmediale Berlin, Ghost: 2561 Bangkok Video & Performance Triennale, S.A.L.T.S Basel, Tai Kwun Hong Kong, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Asia Art Archive in America, New York. She was awarded the 2019 Sobey Art Award, one of Canada’s most prestigious art prizes.