Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

06/26/2023

Join us at 4pm on Jun. 27: Neocolonialism in the Green Transition: Carbon Trading in the Amazon and Lithium Wars in Peru. Space is limited

Join us at one of our upcoming events. Find all the information you need to connect with Peter Wall Institute Scholars here: Jun. 27: Neocolonialism in the Green Transition: Carbon Trading in the Amazon and Lithium Wars in Peru

06/15/2023

Jun. 30: Register today for a talk by Mateus Tremembé on Neocolonialism in the Green Transition | the Tremembé Indigenous Peoples’ Struggle Against Offshore Wind Farms. This event is free to attend, but space is limited.

Join us at one of our upcoming events. Find all the information you need to connect with Peter Wall Institute Scholars here: Jun. 30: Mateus Tremembé on Neocolonialism in the Green Transition

06/12/2023

Join us this Friday for the final session of the Artists within the Anthropocene series- in partnership with the Belkin Gallery. Jun. 23: Listening to Lhq’a:lets / Vancouver

Join us at one of our upcoming events. Find all the information you need to connect with Peter Wall Institute Scholars here: Jun. 23: Listening to Lhq’a:lets / Vancouver

05/18/2023

What might it take to un-numb to the pains and pleasures of our entanglement with non-human beings and the systems by which they are subjected to extraction and extinction? In what ways can artistic practices be an enzyme that supports our digestion of difficult and complex emotions which arise as we increasingly face Climate and Nature Emergency? What are practices that might help us tend to, metabolize and compost the affects of this wit(h)nessing?

In this session participants will be invited to engage with some of the embodied exercises developed by artists integrating the 2022/23 PWIAS artist digital residency who have been investigating practices to expand the limited sensorium of modernity and develop sources of stamina for the slow and challenging work of moving beyond common patterns of simplistic solutions, remaining grounded and attentive to what it means to be human within a wider web of relations.

The experiential session will include practices created by Alysha Seriani, Andréa Monteiro, Cadence Planthara, Carolina Duque, Clifford Berrien, Kimberly Skye Richards, Reed Jackson, Melanie Kloetzel, Naser Al Sughaiyer, Willow Cioppa and Sidi Chen, throughout a nine months online program, a series of 6 artistic practice immersion sessions and week-long in person residency curated by Dani d’Emilia.

05/18/2023

Join us on Friday, May 26 for Expanding Capacity (for pulsing lives and inevitable deaths) Participating artists from the 2022/23 PWIAS artist residency will share from collective learnings gathered in their attempt to face the climate and nature emergency from a place of intellectual, affective and relational rigour and response-ability.

Deploying artistic practices to confront our complicity with the extractive logics of coloniality, their inquiries address the challenges of decentering and disinvesting from human exceptionalism and the difficult ethical and practical complexities of staying with the trouble of repairing relations. This participatory lecture will include invitations to practices that open up possibilities for thinking, relating, and being beyond what is authorized within modern knowledge systems.

This event is part of the three-part Friday evening series, Artists Within the Anthropocene. Presented in partnership with the Belkin Art Gallery.

IMAGE: HOLLY SCHMIDT, FIREWEED FIELDS, 2021-ONGOING. PHOTO: RACHEL TOPHAM PHOTOGRAPHY

Join us at one of our upcoming events. Find all the information you need to connect with Peter Wall Institute Scholars here: May 26: Expanding Capacity (for pulsing lives and inevitable deaths)

05/18/2023

Join us for our final Artist Immersion session "Metabolizing Human Wrongs" on May 31! Space is limited.

In what ways can artistic practices be an enzyme that supports our digestion of difficult and complex emotions which arise as we increasingly face Climate and Nature Emergency? What are practices that might help us tend to, metabolize and compost the affects of this wit(h)nessing? Participants will be invited to engage with some of the embodied exercises developed by the PWIAS Catalyst Artists during their 2022/23 digital residency and is the culmination of their in-person residency at the Institute. Participating artists include: Alysha Seriani, Andréa Monteiro, Cadence Planthara, Carolina Duque, Clifford Berrien, Kimberly Skye Richards, Reed Jackson, Melanie Kloetzel, Naser Al Sughaiyer, Willow Cioppa and Sidi Chen

Join us at one of our upcoming events. Find all the information you need to connect with Peter Wall Institute Scholars here: May 31: Metabolizing Human Wrongs

04/24/2023

Spots are still available for our 6th Artistic Practice Session: Trans-corporeal Connections: Attunement, Synchronization, Imprint with Sidi Chen on April 26. Sign up now!

Join us at one of our upcoming events. Find all the information you need to connect with Peter Wall Institute Scholars here: Apr. 26: Artistic Practice Session #6. Trans-corporeal Connections: Attunement, Synchronization, Imprint

04/21/2023

Don't forget to drop by PWIAS at 5pm for this special event featuring artist/scholars Kayah George, Ayasha Guerin, Sandra Semchuk and Gudrun Lock: Artists Within the Anthropocene - Earth Day Celebration

Join us at one of our upcoming events. Find all the information you need to connect with Peter Wall Institute Scholars here: Apr. 21: Artists Within the Anthropocene - Earth Day Celebration

04/15/2023

Join us for a 3-part Friday evening series "Artists Within the Anthropocene" a partnership with the Belkin Art Gallery. The first event is April 21 in the PWIAS seminar room. Register today!

Artists Within the Anthropocene is a three-part Friday evening series (April 21, May 26, June 23, 5pm-7pm) presented in partnership with the Belkin

04/15/2023

April 20: Join us for the Catalyst Emeriti Lecture Series featuring 's Dr. Andrew Weaver on Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World. Register to attend in person or via Zoom

Join us at one of our upcoming events. Find all the information you need to connect with Peter Wall Institute Scholars here: Apr. 20: Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World

03/31/2023

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Established in 1999 in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), the UBC Learning Exchange connects people—local DTES residents, UBC students and faculty, and community organizations to learn from each other and work together toward positive change. It’s a unique, non-traditional, shared academic ...