FEBRUARY - MARCH 1996 / EMILY 25 Obsessions & Possessions: The Faculty Collects Charles H. Scott GalleryJanuary 1996 Each year ECIAD faculty members are asked to con- tribute to an exhibition of their work. This year the exhibition took a somewhat different turn. Faculty were asked to select personal collections of objects or art works. Presumably a collection gives some insight into the personality, process or inner workings of its owner. Thirty-five instructors participated in the show with collections ranging from the banal / ubiquitous found object obsession of Luke Blackstone to the self- obsessed pretentitious examples of work by Kiki Smith (Oooh!) in the collection of Ed Pien and the CD-ROM Roadkill story by Silvia Scott in the collection of Silvia Scott. Although this show had glaring faults, it also illumi- nated the identities and gave insights into the histories and per- sonalities of some of the people on whom ECIAD students rely for keen aesthetic awareness and the communication of harsh critical realities. Eric Metcalfe's E~~ — comprehensive collec- tion of original Blue Note Records is a prime example of a collection informing one's work (i.e. Dr.. Brute) and identity. So too is Rick Ross’ Boys Toys : an Automotive fascination / obses- sion, Greg Bellerby's Salt & Pepper Shakers , Robert McNealy's Ethnographic passion, and the 28 views of Photo by Jonathan Lander Michael Gardiner Speaks continued from page 4.. deficit reduction targets, because it was reducing their general revenue." "Through the 1980's people like Brian Mulroney had a vision of the Mexicanization of Canada. beirut 24 views of = : ; ee Gig wok Carel In Mexico there's a very distinct class structure. J lle Under that system corporations and the wealthy do very well. Photo by Jonathan Lander | And that was the vision that accompanied the North American Free Trade Agreement in which our government signed a docu- ment agreeing that our current level of subsidization of edu- cation was an unfair business subsidy. The dismantling of social programs is part of that agenda. "The heart of Canada's economy is still resources. An educated work force and populace can be a barrier to that because you then have them questioning the advisability of bulldozing the forests in northern Alberta to produce raw pulp It was also good to see instructors collecting students’ work (Rick Williams). Although an Obsession would connote more than one, and Collection would presumably suggest sev- eral, this seemed to elude David Rimmer. To sum up, | would like to thank contributors to the Obsessions & Possessions Faculty show for the minute glimpse into their personalities. No matter how small it was, it still was refreshing to see someone at ECIAD besides students opening up to personal criticism. . BY JOHN BOEHME Art Education in a Global Competition.. continued from page 4.. "That's a lie because what it's really about is eliminating these programs for the future And that's the message we have to get out to the people in Canada.” Gardiner says through meetings with the current provincial Minister of Education, Dan Miller, he believes the B.C. government “cer- tainly has an appreciation for the importance of (fine arts and humani- ties) programs in post-secondary institutions.” Although Gardiner doubts the provincial government will be cutting any arts programs, he says increased funding will be diverted into more easily justified areas. "They are trying to appease the sentiment being created by the Fraser Institute and others, that we have a society that needs more skills upgrading.” Gardiner says it's a differ- ent story with the B.C. Liberal party. "They have made no reference to the arts, (but) they have said that a liber- al arts education should be the responsibility of an individual over a lifetime as a mature part-time learn- er." Gardiner says in the case of an institution like Emily Carr that might mean government funding only for areas that would provide productive jobs, like computer-aided design, or computer programming. Students pay on average 21% of the cost of their education through tuition. As the federal gov- ernment reduces its funding for edu- cation students will inevitably pay a larger proportion of the cost. The tuition for an average full-time stu- dent for two semesters at Emily Carr in the 1980-81 school year was $460. In 1995-96 it has rose to $1,890, a 311% jump. This increase is comparable to other post-secondary institutions around B.C. “The procedure that's about to be eliminated was defined in 1977. based on a model that had been in place since the late 1960's,” says Gardiner. If changes to the transfer payments hadn't been made in 1981, an additional $1.9 billion would have been allotted to educa- tion in BC over the years from 1981 to 1995. Gardiner says the CFS is trying to wage a public relations campaign to stop the cuts to transfer payments. The February 7th rally was part of the campaign that includes producing a commercial that will be | =~ air 60 times over the next month and an ‘On to Ottawa’ trek in May. The trek is meant to allude to the massive trek of unemployed men more than 60 years ago who, beginning in Vancouver, were plan- ning to ride the rails en mass to Ottawa to express their frustration with the government's inaction in the face massive unemployment. At it turned out, the RCMP put a prema- ture end to the trek by pulling the men from the train in Regina. Many of the same men went overseas to fight and die in the Second World War a few years later. Chiu says the CFS rally may not be effective in stopping tuition fees from going up but it will help make the public aware of the funding crisis. “It's really important for every society to be able to express them- selves through demonstrations because they get news coverage. If we don't stand up and say, This is wrong’, then nobody's ever going to listen." One unnamed student says he disagrees with the language used by the CFS. "I don't necessarily think education is a right. | don't like the idea of going out there with a plac- to ship overseas." =@s -DAWN BuIE ard with statements already printed on it. Does everyone think education is a right? It's a privilege!" Fernando Ignacio a third year ECIAD Film and Video student says he thinks it may take a long time for Canadians as a whole to become actively concerned with the structural changes to the country that are occurring, of which cuts to transfer payments are but one part. "I don't think enough Canadians have been affected on a personal level by what's going on. Maybe it's going to take twenty years, maybe it's going to take fifty years before the class division really splits, and you realize you haven't had a steady job in the last five years" Ignacio says the cuts to education are widening class divi- sions within Canada, but that doesn't mean educational institutions will disappear. "There will probably be even more private institutions to train people to be lawyers and doc- tors. After they cut the transfer pay- ments the only ones going to school will be the people who have the money to begin with.” <@ -DAWN BUIE —— rae SY OS \ NZ = reamur manor 1996 | iar 25 Obsessions & Possessions: The Faculty Collects Charles H. Scott GalleryJanuary 1996 Each year ECIAD faculty members are asked to con- tribute to an exhibition oftheir work. This year the exhibition took 2 somewhat different turn. 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