Derya Akay: Burrard Marina Field House artist-in-residence

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Derya Akay and women elders cook at the Burrard Marina Field House. Photograph Michelle Martin.

The Contemporary Art Gallery welcomes Vancouver-based artist Derya Akay as the Burrard Marina Field House artist-in-residence this spring.

Akay is collaborating with women elders from a range of cultural backgrounds to explore and share local and diasporic culinary traditions. This convivial preparing and partaking of food is a gateway to oral history, which Akay understands as both storytelling and the sensations and memories summoned through communal eating.

“For my residency, I have developed the project working with five elder women who will work with me to give workshops to ten to fifteen people, as a social exercise that revolves around food, time and the labour of kitchen” – Derya Akay

Over the course of March, April and May, Derya Akay will co-host a series of workshops and meals where the public is invited to gather for cooking and conversation with the women elders.

Image: Derya Akay and women elders cook at the Burrard Marina Field House. Photograph Michelle Martin.

Upcoming events:

Saturday, March 18, 12-3pm, free

Cooking with Maria Dyulgerova and her granddaughter Biliana Velkova

AT: Burrard Marina Field House, 1655 Whyte Avenue, Vancouver.

Tickets and information (currently a wait list)

Sunday, April 2, 5-8pm, $40 includes full meal and workshop.

Shabbat Dinner and Fresh Challah presented in partnership with The Jewish Museum and Archives of BC.

Dinner will be prepared by artist Derya Akay, Sara Ciacci, Leonor Etkin, Claire Hammer and Debbie Kafka.

AT: The Jewish Museum and Archives of BC, 6184 Ash Street (2nd floor), Vancouver.

Tickets and information

More events to be announced in April and May, please check www.contemporaryartgallery.ca for details.

Derya Akay (b, 1988, Turkey) is an artist living in Vancouver. He received the 2016 Portfolio Prize Emerging Artist Award in Vancouver. Recent solo exhibitions include with bread, Campbell River Art Gallery, 2017; Pumice, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, California, 2017; Painting with Light, Kunstverein Toronto, 2015; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Supper, Centre A, Vancouver, 2014. Group exhibitions include Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, 2017; Unit 17, Vancouver, 2017; Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2016; The Gardener Museum, Toronto, 2015; Geometry of Knowing Part I, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, 2015.

About the Burrard Marina Field House

Throughout 2017 CAG is hosting a series of artists-in-residence, each working toward participatory projects to be realized throughout 2017–2019. The Field House Studio is an off-site artist residency space and community hub organized by CAG. This program moves beyond conventional exhibition making, echoing the founding origins of the gallery where artists were offered support toward the production of new work while reaching out to communities and offering new ways for individuals to encounter, participate and connect with art and artists.

The Burrard Marina Field House Studio Residency Program is generously supported by Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver, along with many private and individual donors. Please visit our website for a full list of supporters. For further details about the program, all forthcoming residencies and associated events visit our website at www.contemporaryartgallery.ca

and the Field House blog at www.burrardmarinafieldhouse.blog