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About academia : case study, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC / Sabine Bitter and Antoni Muntadas, editors.

Bitter, Sabine, 1960- (editor.). Muntadas, 1942- (editor.). Audain Gallery (Vancouver, B.C.) (Added Author).

Summary:

"Addressing the unique social, political, and economic context for universities and academia in Vancouver, British Columbia, this publication is part of Muntada's residency through the Audain Visual Artist in Residence Program at the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and is realized in partnership with Line magazine and the Audain Gallery. About Academia adds to the work initiated by Muntadas' original project, About Academia, which was produced through the Art Forum program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University in 2011"--Page 3.

Record details

ISBN: 9780981390635
ISBN: 0981390633
Physical Description: 142 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: [Vancouver] : Audain Visual Artist in Residence Program at SFU, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Realized in partnership with Line magazine, and Audain Gallery"--Title page verso.

Formatted Contents Note:

Panel discussion : about academia, case study Vancouver / Ian Angus [and 5 others including Muntadas] -- Panel discussion : about academia, what kind of university do we want? / Andrea Creamer [and 5 others] -- SFU, neo-Bohemia, and the creative city machine / Catherine Murray -- "The university does not think" / Christopher Pavsek -- Sex, drugs, and research : a university/community collaboration cabaret / Dara Culhane -- Labouring to learn : lineaments of the creative-academic complex in Vancouver / Enda Brophy -- "Do you want me to grab glove an' meet you over there?" : a carpenter in the university / Geoff Mann -- Organizing on the friendly campus : reflections on failure / Myka Tucker-Abramson and Mark Willson -- In defence of the public university : instead of purity, is it time for "dirty hands"? / Am Johal -- On the poverty of the professoriate, or, sausage and politics / Carolyn Lesjak.