Monique Mees Prosthesis February 5 to March 18 2000 Opening Friday February 4 8pm Alan Hoffman Boys and Girls Welcome! March 25 to May 6 2000 Opening Friday March 24 8pm anarchive A new initiative that investigates the relationship between visual art and writing presenting a selection of intriguing objects, catalogues, publi- cations and artists’ books from our archive. an artist run centre 233 Carrall Street Vancouver British Columbia Canada V6B 2J2 T (604) 688-0051 F (604) 685-1912 E artspeak@direct.ca W www.artspeak.be.ca H Tuesday to Saturday 12 to 5pm Artspeak is a member of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres (PAARC). Artspeak grate- fully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council, the Government of BC through the BC Arts Council, the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Foundation, The BC Gaming Commission, our volunteers and members. Soul for Sof They say | won't ne@eh The following 16104 wOrds contain e | ] l : U X February, 2000 Vol. 15, #4 Produced at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (ECIAD) Profile Sculptor and installation artist, Liz Magor, spent many years travelling between her personal life in Vancouver and her pro- fessional life in Toronto. Now that she has firmly established her career Magor has settled in Vancouver to teach. She speaks about her struggles to become an artist, and the mate- riality of her art. Feature : Living in the small village of El Paraiso is very different from the world of North America. An excerpt from the travel journal of an ECIAD student, the sights sounds smells and experiences of this community just outside of El Salvador are documented through text and photos. You're more likely to get some when you least expect it. Dogs and chicks mix in this short fiction thriller that will add joy to your day! Required reading for those in, and wishing to stay in, the loop. An independant artist takes the initiative to put on a show of her work without going through the traditional route of gal- leries and art dealers. With a litte help from her friends she manages to further her career and build her self-esteem while passing on some helpful tips. The ability to create images beyond imagination is brought on by the advent of digital imaging, but is a sense of a lost reality brought along with it? The hybrid creation of photography and digital codes questions wherin the real and the fictitious lies. Bowling is not just for smelly men with beer guts. We sent two ECIAD students to photograph the beauty and the fun to be found at the Grandview Lanes on Commercial Drive. In a talk at the Emily Carr Institute the night before the open- ing of Consolation Prize, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Art Superstar Mike Kelly spoke about sex...oh, and art too. Oh...and John Miller was in the show too. 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