Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years | Uncanny Slippages: Entropy and Transformation

Event Date:
2025-10-22T12:00:00
2025-10-22T13:00:00
Event Location:
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z2)
Speaker:
Bronwen Tate (School of Creative Writing) and Adele Ruosi (Department of Physics & Astronomy)
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Intended Audience:
Everyone
Local Contact:

Jana Tyner, Communications & Publications

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

604.822.1389 

Event Information:

Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years

This fall, join UBC scholars who will discuss productive intersections of their own work and the current exhibition, followed by a discussion that includes the audience. Guests will address Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years, which, like much of the artist’s work, often stages minimal but charged spatial interventions that hold time in suspension. From his use of threshold spaces—gardens, ruins, makeshift barriers—to his invocation of hospitality and its withdrawal, his practice is deeply engaged with questions of memory, disappearance and the limits of narrative.

Uncanny Slippages: Entropy and Transformation with Bronwen Tate and Adele Ruosi 
This conversation brings physics and poetic form together, addressing themes of materiality, structure, rhythm and metaphor—inviting reflection on scale, pattern and the felt experience of space and matter as they resonate with Akhavan’s practice.

Add to Calendar 2025-10-22T12:00:00 2025-10-22T13:00:00 Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years | Uncanny Slippages: Entropy and Transformation Event Information: Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years This fall, join UBC scholars who will discuss productive intersections of their own work and the current exhibition, followed by a discussion that includes the audience. Guests will address Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years, which, like much of the artist’s work, often stages minimal but charged spatial interventions that hold time in suspension. From his use of threshold spaces—gardens, ruins, makeshift barriers—to his invocation of hospitality and its withdrawal, his practice is deeply engaged with questions of memory, disappearance and the limits of narrative. Uncanny Slippages: Entropy and Transformation with Bronwen Tate and Adele Ruosi This conversation brings physics and poetic form together, addressing themes of materiality, structure, rhythm and metaphor—inviting reflection on scale, pattern and the felt experience of space and matter as they resonate with Akhavan’s practice. Event Location: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z2)