Tomorrow's weather: SUNNY PERIODS Details page A3 Focus: INSIDE Is our student society D.O.A.? Tuning our dials to our student society we find it in swift pursuit of a number of pertinent issues. Spurred on with the added incentives of new blood, its membership is making slow but sure progress sorting out priorities, considering the backlog as well as the continual meetings, events and topics requiring immediate attention. The future status of the Helen Pitt Gallery is ‘a dominant feature on the present schedule. In terms of financial stability the gallery is standing on a thin ice budget. To arrest the problem the student society and gallery committee have drawn up a financial proposal with requests for funding and projected expenses for February 1979 to February 1980. This proposal was submitted to the Dean’s Committee where it has been tabled and awaits what we Hepe will be a decision as soon as possible. The proposal makes clear that without adequate funding the gallery will perhaps have to close. The basis for the proposal is that the gallery provides a necessary and valuable facility and function for students, in the sense of exhibi- tions and as a place of involvement with the public. Other immediate society issues concern the discussion of food facilities presently planned for . the new school. Are we going to be satisfied with process foods and vending machine diets? People should start saying something now because later . . it will be too late. Student society is meeting with VVI student council to discuss food prices in the cafeteria, as well as food quality and improvements along the lines of ‘‘student specials.”’ There will be two new teaching positions in design research and graphic design for next December, as reported by society members on the Dean’s Committee; there will be society involve- ment in the selection of those faculty. Interested students may take notice that summer school courses and schedules are soon to be available. The student society is getting back on its feet and gaining some ground and insight regarding priorities. In the process it desires to encourage student responses, especially as to the direction we want the society to take. About astonishment and sausages _ The fine arts department of U.B.C. and Emily Carr College have had the first exchange show in ages. The U.B.C. section of the show is at the Helen Pitt until February 3rd, and the ECCA ex- change is at the U.B.C. student union building ; eg February 12th. _ It probably is a good public relations move. It seems to be the point of most activity coming out of this school, and it is probably very neces- sary. A student only has to try and transfer his _ credits locally to U.B.C. or Simon Fraser to realize this. ~ gutsy statement. ~ Gr Varner ey 5, 1979 Volume 1 Number 10 I whe 1 Wh nt how worthless they actually are. How then do you change a situation like Public relations. You try to convince the local universities that the whorehouse has cleaned up its act. Coffeetable diplomacy is what it amounts to and it will work. Anyway, back to the exchange show. Ona public relations basis the show is a success. U.B.C. students become exposed to all the deep mysteries of Emily Carr College consciousness and we in turn get to see what they are up to. The U.B.C. end of ‘the exchange included sculpture, photo- graphy and conceptual work as well as painting, whereas the ECCA effort was a painting depart- ment monopoly. As for the work itself, both schools seem to have achieved a comfortable level of regurgitation and constipation. With perhaps a couple exceptions, the shows seemed full of manneristic paintings that gave the viewer the feeling that the painters of both schools put as much conceptual thought into their work as one would do when one brushes his teeth, or gargles mouthwash in the morning. School work is always manneristic though, and that is precisely why students are students. Perhaps some will get away from this sort of thing in the future, and realize the whole point to art is individual contribution not text book emulation. The Frank Stella show at the Vancouver Art Gallery showed indications of painting finally coming off the wall and truly becoming a sculp- tural concern. One hopes that perhaps the odd painting Bob Zingleballs student will see merit in this concern and give some indication in their work that the automobile and airplane have been invented, and we are out of the nineteenth century. Well, hope and pray. One of our faculty members has just opened a ‘show at the Bau-Xi Gallery and was gracious enough to supply us with an artistic statement. Bob Evermon refers to himself as practicing alchemy and black magic in his work. That is a pared to be knocked right off my feet -and have my middle class sensibilities shaken. What did | see when | walked into Bob’s VooDoo haven at the Bau-Xi? The same old waterwashes and cotton candy sensibility that Bob has shown in his past efforts. They remind me a lot of strings of technicolor sausages against a cotton candy background. In utter astonishment | decided to go back to Evermon’s statement again, thinking perhaps | had misread it. Sure enough, Alchemy and black magic were mentioned. Black magic? Black magic chocolates perhaps. By Seymour Clearly With such warning | was pre- It’s about these connections. ... _ Attention Alternative Studies students and staff. A budget has been provided to produce a book concerning our work and ideas. This will be a documentary and promotional catalogue that will attempt to show some of the activities of — individuals in our program. The catalogue will be public and available in mid-April. Each student in the program will be able to | have a limited number of pages in the catalogue, depending on the response. The catalogue will be a folder with loose, unbound pages inside. This format allows for personal flexibility. One can take pages out to use in portfolios, hang on walls, whatever. The pages will consist of BLACK and WHITE photographs of pasted-up or drawn images made on the blue-line paste-up sheets. The sheets will be provided, and each person is asked to do his/ her layout. A limited number of paste-up sheets will be available in the main school library after February 12th. The photographing of completed layouts, ready for printing, will begin soon after that. The deadline for the submission of com- pleted work jis March 12th; nothing will be ac- cepted after this date. Completed submissions can be handed in at the library. Anything can ee in this catalogue, however a general theme has been selected — CONNECTIONS — which you may or may not choose to adhere to. We hope that everyone will participate in this venture and we look.forward to puonans a spectrum of connections. Your editorial board: lan Baxter, Daniel Belanger, Kate Hemenway, Harry McIntyre, Gor- don Moore, Ronald Sandor. All of us in this program have work of one sort or another. Let’s use this opportunity. WHAT NOTE ™ When at odds with what you appear to see Reality is finding the parts which you can’t Complete and whole is the direct result Of what was void and hollow If you can’t hear to what was said Think and know what was not THINK So hollow, so devoid uncluttered, unclogged of useful material of where it belonged So still, so calm motionless and inert to exercise the space of feelings that hurt So devoured, so decayed _ obsolete and extinct to pressure a brain that once had thinked YES Know to Know but No.then No Can see what was to sea That could and would be and will sow and sew like X celling was But Know to see and see will no JABA published by student services emily carr college of art vancouver, b.c. v6b 1x2 249 dunsmuir street Tom S weather: SUNNY PERIODS Details page AS Focus: INSIDE Is our student society D.O.A.? Tuning our dials to our student society we find it in swift pursuit of a number of pertinent issues. SpUrred on with the added incentives of new blood, its membership is making slow but sure progress sorting out priorities, considering the backlog as well as the continual meetings, events and topics requiring immediate attentio The future status of the Helen Pitt Gallery ‘2 dominant feature on the present schedule. In terms of financial stability the gallery is standing ‘on a thin ice budget. To arrest the problem the student society and gallery committee have drawn Up a financial proposal with requests for funding and projected expenses for February 1979 to February 1980. This proposal was submitted to the Dean's Committee where it has been tabled and awaits what we hope will be a decision as soon as possible. The proposal makes clear that without adequate funding the gallery will perhaps have to close. The basis for the proposal is that the gallery provides a necessary and valuable facility and function for students, in the sense of exhibi- tions and as a place of involvement with the public. Other immediate society issues concern the discussion of food facilities presently planned for the new school. Are we going to be satisfied with process foods and vending machine diets? People should start saying something now because later ~_. it will be too late. i Student society is meeting with VVI student council to discuss food prices in the cafeteria, as ‘well as food quality and improvements along the lines of “student specials. There will be two new teaching positions in design research and graphic design for next December, as reported by society members on the Dean's Committee; there will be society involve- ment in the selection of those faculty. Interested students may take notice that summer school courses and schedules are soon to be available. The student society is getting back on its feet and gaining some ground and insight regarding priorities. In the process it desires to encourage student responses, especially as to the direction we want the society to take. About astonishment and sausages The fine arts department of U.B.C. and Emily Carr College have had the first exchange show in ages. The U.B.C. section of the show is at the Helen Pitt until February 3rd, and the ECCA ex- change is at the U.B.C. student union building until February 12th. It probably is a good public relations move. It seems to be the point of most activity coming ‘out of this school, and it is probably very nec: sary. A student only has to try and transfer his credits locally to U.B.C. or Simon Fraser to realize February 5, 1979 how worthless they actually are. How then do you change a situation lik this. Public relations. You try to convince the local universities that the whorehouse has cleaned up its act. Coffeetable diplomacy is what it amounts to and it will work. ‘Anyway, back to the exchange show. On a public relations basis the show is a success. U.B.C. students become exposed to all the deep mysteries of Emily Carr College consciousness and we in turn get to see what they are up to. The U.B.C. end of the exchange included sculpture, photo- graphy and conceptual work as well as painting, whereas the ECCA effort was a painting depart- ment monopoly. As for the work itself, both schools seem to have achieved a comfortable level of regurgitation and constipation. With perhaps a couple exceptions, the shows seemed full of manneristic paintings that gave the swer the feeling that the painters of both schools put as much conceptual thought into their work as one would do when one brushes his teeth, or gargles mouthwash in the morning. School work is always manneristic though, and that is precisely why students are students. Perhaps some will get away from this sort of thing in the future, and realize the whole point to art is individual contribution not text book emulation. The Frank Stella show at the Vancouver Art Gallery showed indications of painting finally coming off the wall and truly becoming a sculp- tural concern. ‘One hopes that perhaps the odd painting ee Bob Zingleballs merit in this concern and gi nin their work that the automobile wented, and we are out student will and airplane have been of the nineteenth century. Well, hope and pray. (One of our faculty members has just opened a show at the Bau-Xi Gallery and was gracious enough to supply us with an artistic statement. Bob Evermon refers to himself as practicing alchemy and black magic in his work. That is a gutsy statement. With such warning | was pre- pared to be knocked right off my feet-and have ‘my middle class sensibilities shaken. What did | see when | walked into Bob’s VooDoo haven at the Bau-Xi? The same old waterwashes and cotton candy sensibility that Bob has shown in his past efforts. They remind me a lot of strings of technicolor sausages against a cotton candy background. In utter astonishment | decided to go back to. Evermon’s statement again, thinking perhaps | had misread it. Sure enough, Alchemy and black magic were mentioned. Black magiq? Black magic chocolates perhaps. By Seymour Clearly Che Vancouver X Volume 1 Number 10 It’s about these connections. . . . Attention Alternative Studies students and staff, A budget has been provided to_produce a book concerning our work and ideas. This will be a documentary and promotional catalogue that will attempt to show some of the activities of individuals in our program. The catalogue will be public and available in mid-April Each student in the program will be able to have a limited number of pages in the catalogue, depending on the response. The catalogue will be a folder with loose, unbound pages inside. This format allows for personal flexibility. One can take pages out to use in portfolios, hang on walls, whatever. The pages will consist of BLACK and WHITE photographs of pasted-up or drawn images made on the blue-line paste-up sheets. The sheets will be provided, and each person is asked to do his/ her layout. ‘A limited number of paste-up sheets will be available in the main school library after February 12th. The photographing of completed. layouts, ready for printing, will begin soon after that. The deadline for the submission of com- pleted work is March 12th; nothing will be ac- cepted after this date. Completed submissions can be handed in at the library. ‘Anything can be in this catalogue, however a general theme has been selected — CONNECTIONS = which you may or may not choose to adhere to. We hope that everyone will participate in this venture and we look forward to publishing a spectrum of connections. Your editorial board: lan Baxter, Daniel Belanger, Kate Hemenway, Harry McIntyre, Gor- don Moore, Ronald Sandor. All of us in thi program have work of one sort or another. Lets use this opportunity. WHAT NOTE When at odds with what you appear to see Reality is finding the parts which you can't ‘Complete and whole is the direct result (Of what was void and hollow If you can’t hear to what was said Think and know what was not THINK ‘So hollow, so devoid uncluttered, unclogged of useful material of where it belonged So still, so calm ‘motionless and inert to exercise the space of feelings that hurt So devoured, so decayed ‘obsolete and extinct {to pressure a brain that once had thinked ves Know to Know but No then No Can see what was to sea That could and would be ‘and will sow and sew like X celling was But Know to see and see will no JABA ‘published by student servicer emily cat colloge of art vencourer, be, YOb 1x2 240 dunamatr street