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Colour Exchanges: Interview with Germaine Koh
“Colour marks exchange. It is border-work. Mixture is our calling.”—Lisa Robertson, How to Colour
In place of the artist talk, colourschool presents an ongoing series of artist interviews conducted by Johan Lundh, whose practice adopts the “art of conversation” as a starting point for more dynamic explorations. Since 2005, Lundh has made over thirty interviews with artists, curators, and writers about their views on contemporary art and culture in his Conversations on Contemporary Art project, which is dedicated to the definition, development, and examination of art and culture in the world today.
Colour Exchanges follow a traditional interview format, but allow for and encourage participation by visitors in the midst of the conversation.
Johan Lundh interviews Germaine Koh during this session.
- hosts:
- Germaine Koh and Johan Lundh
- date & time:
- March 11th, 2008 at 7 pm
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Germaine Koh is a Canadian visual artist active internationally. Her conceptually generated work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places. Her recent schedule has included shows at the BALTIC Centre (Newcastle), De Appel (Amsterdam), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Ottawa Art Gallery, and le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Bloomberg SPACE (London), the Seoul Museum of Art, Artspace (Sydney), The British Museum (London), The Power Plant (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She has participated in the Liverpool Biennial 2004, 1998 Biennale of Sydney, and La Biennale de Montréal 2000, and she was a finalist for the 2004 Sobey Art Award. Formerly Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, she is also an independent curator and partner in the independent record label weewerk. Koh is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.
URLs: www.germainekoh.com, www.catrionajeffries.com, www.weewerk.com
Johan Lundh is an artist, curator, and writer, living and working in Stockholm, Sweden and Vancouver, Canada. He fosters research-based projects that explore connections between social interaction and the mechanics of contemporary art. The cornerstone of his creative practice is experimental collaboration, manifesting itself through inter/ multidisciplinary actions. He is currently working on an extensive interview-project and a series of posters, co-produced by Toronto and Vancouver-based artists, together with Vancouver-based artist and curator Alissa Firth-Eagland. He is generally perceived as “young and restless,” but in reality is old and settled.
Event Images & Documentation
Overflow, site-specific process-based installation with recuperated glass bottles, at Centre A, Vancouver 2006. Image courtesy of Germaine Koh