In our last episode, Lan "Florence" Yee provides insights into their prolific art practice, touching on a wide range of topics such as working with archives and heritage, community-building in Chinatowns, and navigating the systems within contemporary art in Canada.
Sep 12, 2024
40 min
In our second last episode, Patrick Cruz talks about his current interest in the topic of past life regression (PLR), working in the arts, and his experience as a professor.
Jul 20, 2024
28 min
In this episode, artist and professor Diyan Achjadi discusses their practice of pattern-making through printmaking and animation as a tool to tell stories of Indonesian diaspora and histories.
Jun 28, 2024
26 min
In this episode, Paul de Guzman talks about his artistic experiments coming from a background in engineering, the changing landscapes that reshape the meaning of heritage and belonging for him, and vlogging as one of his many creative mediums.
May 23, 2024
32 min
Multimedia artist and professor Gu Xiong talks about his transnational experience as an artist and an immigrant as well as his project 'The Remains of a Journey', which investigates the history and memories of early Chinese labourers in British Columbia.
Apr 20, 2024
31 min
Artist, dentist and lawyer David Khang talks about his career journeys, his 2008 show How to Feed a Piano, where he had Robbie the Horse in Centre A's gallery space for his performance, and his thoughts on art’s responsibility and legacy today.
Mar 19, 2024
37 min
Curator Makiko Hara talks about her first experience arriving in “Vancouver” in the 90s, how Centre A’s historical locations contextualized its programming and her recent curatorial work at Centre A and Vancouver Art Gallery: Offsite.
Feb 12, 2024
40 min
Our first podcast guest and the founder of Centre A, Hank Bull talks about the start of his career, the early days of Centre A and Vancouver’s Asian-Canadian art scene in the 2000s.
Jan 30, 2024
33 min