Art NOW series presents Glenn Alteen

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Art NOW series presents Glenn Alteen
Whose Histories?
12 pm | March 15, 2021
uLethbridge Online Presentation

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Glenn Alteen's talk will focus on two ongoing projects he developed at grunt gallery for the final 5 years responding to the changing city and the rampant redevelopment that is eradicating the city’s history. The first,The Blue Cabin Floating Artists Residency program, started in 2014 with saving and completing a heritage remediation on a foreshore squatters cabin from the 1920’s and putting it on a small floating platform with a small deckhouse as an artist’s residency and heritage engagement site. The floating complex would move between various spots in the lower mainland promoting and educating on Vancouver’s other histories: Indigenous histories, marine industrial histories, squatters history, cultural histories. The project had its first resident in the fall of 2019. More about this project: https://thebluecabin.ca

The second project is a public art project, The Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, consisting of a 4 x 7 metre digital screen centrally located at Kingsway and Broadway in Vancouver programmed with community content on the site of a controversial redevelopment in the neighbourhood. The project used the screen to distribute content about the neighbourhood and who lived there and hosting regular video workshops for community members to create content for the screen. They also worked with a local historian to create a series of PSA’s highlighting the history of the neighbourhood. This content is changing through the five year contract for the screen. More about this project: https://www.mpcas.ca

Glenn Alteen is a Vancouver based curator and writer, and until recently founding Program Director of grunt gallery (1984- 2020). He has worked extensively with performance art and is cofounder of LIVE Performance Biennial (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005). His writing has been recently published in  Other Places - Reflections on Media Art in Canada (MANO 2019), Wordless Rebecca Belmore (grunt 2019), March 5, 1819 Rebecca Belmore  Unceded Territories Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (MOA 2016). Alteen has also been organizer in a number of conferences including Indian Acts Aboriginal Performance Art ECUAD 2002 , and Live In Public - The Art of Engagement in 2007. More recently Alteen has been involved in archival projects as a producer of websites including Beat Nation (2009) through grunt gallery, Ruins in Process -Vancouver Art in the 60’s (Belkin Gallery UBC 2009), Activating The Archive 2011, Taking Advantage – The Mainstreeters Redux (Presentation House 2014).  Alteen was awarded the 2018 Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Art for his outstanding contribution to contemporary practice.

Image: The Blue Cabin; Glenn Alteen photographer.


We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

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