co-curated by Makiko Hara, Debra Zhou and Hank Bull
Opening reception: Friday, July 30, 8:00 pm

This exhibition will search the past for clues to the future. Since Centre A opened its doors in the summer of 2000, it has acquired a considerable, if informal, collection. Stored in boxes and back rooms, these archives are packed with history. For the archaeologist, this is a gold mine. Digging through the midden, piecing together fragments, making connections and discovering treasures, a culture comes to life and its story can be told.

Over the summer of 2010, Centre A will conduct an excavation on itself, sorting through paintings, props, photographs, media works, sculpture, objects and documents. Once laid out, this history will be made visible from a new, all-of-a-sudden, perspective.

The gallery will be packed with an astonishing array of objects and information, including works by Hong Hao, Nobuo Kubota, Shen Yuan, Germaine Koh, Sharmila Samant, Yang Jiechang, Koki Tanaka, Khan Lee, Roy Caussy, Jinhan Koh, Santiago Bose, Mo S'alemy, Leung Chi-Wo, Babak Golkar and many others. The gallery will be divided into a number of discursive spaces: a cinema, a café, a library, a bookstore, a lounge and a radio station.

Publications and limited editions will be available for sale. Video in the gallery, and on the website, will feature highlights from past performances, lectures, symposia and interviews with key contributors.

Let's Twist Again will be both a celebration of past achievement and a platform for imagining the future.

LET'S TWIST AGAIN
The Archeology of the Future

Centre A, the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its gallery, Centre A, with a retrospective exhibition and a symposium that will connect the cultural development of Vancouver to global changes in contemporary art.

The project will have two major components, an exhibition, opening July 30, called "The Dig", and a symposium, called "The Twister", at Simon Fraser University's Wosk Centre for Dialogue, September 17 and 18, 2010.

An online component will enable networked discussion and exchange.

Funding for the project is provided by generous gifts from Lead Patron, Anndraya T. Luui, and Symposium Patrons, Mark Allison and Stephanie Holmquist.

Grant support comes from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and the City of Vancouver.

Use of the Asia-Pacific Hall at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue is made possible by the Bruce and Lis Welch Community Award and the office of the President of Simon Fraser University. The symposium celebrates the opening of SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts in the Woodwards Building.

The presentation of distinguished keynote speaker, David Elliott is co-sponsored by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia. Symposium registration: www.centrea.org

Curator Contact: Makiko Hara, Debra Zhou, Hank Bull - 604-683-8326