Sooner or Later

The Comox Valley Art Gallery and the Comox Valley Community Arts Council invited community members to participate in an exhibition that celebrates our diverse creative community. We welcomed current, past and historical local Comox Valley artists, writers, performers, collaborators, creative collectives and cultural thinkers to submit work for Sooner or Later, a thematic show that examines diverse representations of contemporary self-portraiture in all media.

EXHIBITION THEME: CONTEMPORARY SELF-PORTRAITURE

Sooner or Later every artist makes a self-portrait. Self-portraits involve looking inward and/or looking out to the world around us, and this representation of self may change over time and in relation to shifting perspectives. Self-representation covers a wide range of territory and may reflect such things as historical, social, political or personal circumstances.

This exhibition included work in all media including, but not limited to: visual arts, time-based + media arts, print + written word, performance, site-specific, non-traditional formats, mobile and social media, experimental and interdisciplinary explorations. This may involve traditional or mixed processes, repurposing, upcycling or more hybrid creative approaches.

CONTEMPORARY SELF-PORTRAITURE – WHAT IS MY INSPIRATION?

– Representations of identity, awkwardness, vulnerability, desensitization, empowerment and risk-taking;
– Opportunities for community storytelling, collaboration, choreography and autobiography;
– Declarations of self-existence, authorship, consciousness and unconsciousness;
– Explorations of body as material, randomness, control, mortality and immortality, concealing, and exposure;
– Expressions of past/present/future selves, desires, fantasies, self as signifier (personal, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, culture);
– Positioning self as protagonist/ antagonist;
– Connections in relation to place and/or placelessness

Sooner or Later Submission Guidelines – SUBMISSON DEADLINE HAS PASSED

FOR MORE INFORMATION PHONE: 250.334.2983 (cvcac) or 250.338.6211 (cvag)

Exhibitions

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  Sooner or Later

  1. Community Exhibition

  CVAG and the Comox Valley Community Arts Council invite you to participate in a community exhibition that celebrates our diverse creative community.

  June 1 - 30 2016
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  Sooner or Later: Anyone and Everyone Make Art Project

  1. Anyone and Everyone

  Sooner or Later every artist makes a self portrait

  June 1 - 30 2016