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In Sidebar on September 9, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Exhibition
Tatau: Samoan Tattooing and Global Culture
until Sept. 30, 2009, at the UBC Museum of Anthropology.
Vancouver, BC
13/2/1982, Farringdon Crescent, Auckland, Faiga Mamea. Photograph by Mark Adams.
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David Wisdom: Vancouver 1970-1975
Teck Gallery May 17 – August 29, 2009
SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver
Wrestler Gene Kiniski, Seymour Street, 1971 By David Wisdom
Audiovisual
Call for Papers
CFP: Popular Culture and Politics: Perspectives from Canada
Eds. Tim Nieguth (Laurentian University) and Shauna Wilton (University
of Alberta)
We invite scholarly contributions for an edited volume on the relationship between popular culture and politics. Political culture and political traditions have long occupied a central place in Canadian political science. Read More
Film Festival
Dialogues Brazil-Canada at the 2nd Brazilian Film Festival of Vancouver with Brazilian director Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Last Stop 174) and producer Iain Smith (Children of Men, Cold Mountain) Thursday, July 9th and Saturday, July 11th, 4:00 p.m.- Vancity Theatre, Vancouver
Manga Ormolu – Hybrid cultures in a globalized world
In Exhibition, Global Art Database, Vancouver Art Gallery, Visual Art, anime, art on March 26, 2009 at 1:01 pmManga Ormolu is one of Brendan Lee Satish Tang’s ceramic series, which amalgamates Ming Dynasty style porcelain with figures from Japanese anime and manga. The set is inspired by French ormolu, where Chinese ceramics were gilded with gold or bronze. Here Ming-style vases are usurped by futuristic robotic prosthetics, representing the ongoing process of globalization (as known as colonialism, nationalism, and capitalism) and of cultural appropriation. Tang criticizes the rate and extent of which globalization is increasing as we pass through various technological revolutions from agricultural, industrial, to now digital. The boundaries which define one’s identity are subjected to constant change, but now at an even faster pace.
Manga Ormolu version 4.0-c by Brendan Tang
The message of traditions taken over by technology and globalization and of cultures hybridizing and merging together reflects his personal history. Tang is born in Ireland to Trinidadian parents – father of Chinese decent and mother of Indian decent and now lives in Canada. Being ethnically-mixed and culturally diverse, he claims that he is used to a hybridized identity. Through Manga Ormolu, he wishes to address the issue of transformations in culture and identity in an amusing and not so serious fashion, while motivating viewers to become aware of globalization and to reflect on the realities of their world.
By Athena Wong
Related Reviews: Global Art Database,Visual Art, Exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery
