We are looking forward to kicking off the fall with a visit to Dana Claxton's Studio. Join us on September 8th. For more information visit the
CASV Website.
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Tatanka Wanbli Checkpa Wincincala, Twins Transform 4 of 5, 2006
C-print on archival paper, edition of 6, 30 x 40 in
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Dana Claxton works in film, video, photography, single and multi
channel video installation and performance art. Her practice
investigates beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual.
Her work has been shown internationally at the Museum of Modern Art
(NYC), Walker Art Centre, Sundance Film Festival, Eiteljorg Museum and
the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU) and held in public
collections including the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of
Canada, Art Bank of Canada and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She has
received numerous awards including the VIVA Award and the Eiteljorg
Fellowship.
Her work was selected for the 17th Biennale of Sydney Biennale (10),
de Biennale Montréal (07), Biennale d’art contemporain du Havre, France
(06), Micro Wave, Hong Kong (05) Art Star Biennale, Ottawa (05) and Wro
03 Media Arts Biennale Wroclaw Poland (03). She has created commissioned
works for the University of Lethbridge Gallery, Alternator Gallery,
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Urban Shaman, Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery and
Tribe. She has presented talks at the Getty Institute (LA) and the Art
College Association (USA) and the Opening Week Forum of the Biennale of
Sydney.
Claxton was born in Yorkton Saskatchewan and her family reserve is
Lakota First Nations -Wood Mountain located in beautiful Southwest
Saskatchewan. Her paternal Euro-Canadian Grandmother taught her how to
harvest and preserve food and her maternal Lakota grandmother taught her
to seek justice. Dana is the youngest of four siblings, an auntie,
niece, cousin and daughter.
Claxton is represented by
Winsor Gallery in Vancouver.
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Hammad Nasar is a curator and writer, and recently moved to Hong Kong
as Head of Research and Programmes at the Asia Art Archive, where he
plays a strategic role in developing AAA’s collection and shaping
initiatives, partnerships and programmes that generate new thinking
around the material in the collection and about the art of the region.
Earlier, he co-founded and was Curatorial Director of the London-based
arts organization Green Cardamom. He was a Fellow of the Clore
Leadership Programme, Research Fellow at Goldsmith College, and Arts
Director for the UK’s Festival of Muslim Cultures (2006-07). His recent
projects include: Safavids Revisited at the British Museum (2009);
Where Three Dreams Cross at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010);
Beyond the Page: Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan
at the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA (2010) and Drawn from Life at
Abbot Hall Gallery & Museum, Kendal, UK (2011). His ongoing
curatorial projects include Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive
Space (2005-ongoing) and Mashq: Repetition, Meditation,
Mediation (2009-ongoing). Prior to entering the art world, Nasar worked
as a management consultant and banker. Nasar will speak on questions of
geography, region and nation with insights into developments
in contemporary art from West Asia or the “Middle East”, and with
relation to the current exhibition at Centre A, “Minutes from a Second
Story” by Hajra Waheed.
