Fifteen students from across ECU performed in the Canadian debut of Sculptural Rebirth at the province's premier public gallery.
A recent collaboration with celebrated artist Tadasu Takamine brought 15 students from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) to the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) for a public performance for an audience of more than 130 onlookers.
Titled Sculptural Rebirth, the performance was directed by Tadasu and included students in a range of roles, including plasterer, performer, reader and life model.
"It was an intensive project that put their skills to use in unexpected ways," says artist and ECU faculty member Emily Hermant. Emily leads the Sculpture + Expanded Practices program at ECU and facilitated student involvement in the VAG performance.
"It was a real-world extension of what we do in the Sculpture program," she continues. "It put their technical skills and training in contemporary art practice toward a meaningful, experiential purpose, and gave them access to understanding how they can apply what they learn in school in a professional context."
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