Artspeak

• Jessie Caryl

  Jessie Caryl is a writer and curator of contemporary art who has curated group exhibitions at Catriona Jeffries Gallery, the Belkin Satellite, and the Surrey Art Gallery, and a selection of historical catalogues at the Blackwood Gallery. During the past five years she has written about works of contemporary art on a monthly basis and her texts have been read and re-published widely. She is presently researching the historical development of photography as a means to document physiological time, in relation to altered states of consciousness, gendered experience, and social chronometry. Caryl has an MA in Art History (Critical Curatorial Studies) from the University of British Columbia.

• Crista Dahl

• Jennifer Fisher

• Elizabeth MacKenzie

  Elizabeth MacKenzie has exhibited her installations and videotapes nationally and internationally since the early eighties. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art with an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, her practice includes an ongoing commitment to collaboration, curating, writing and teaching.

• Marina Roy

  Marina Roy is Vancouver-based artist and writer whose work explores the intersection between language and visual art. She received her BA in French Literature at Université Laval, a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and her MFA from the University of British Columbia. She has shown nationally and internationally, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, the Or Gallery Berlin, Gallery Sumukha, Chennai & Bengaluru, India, and Chisenhale Gallery, London. Roy was recipient of the VIVA award in 2010. In 2001 she published sign after the x (Artspeak/Arsenal Pulp Press), a book that revolves around the letter X and its multiple meanings. She is currently working on the next book, titled Queuejumping. She is Associate Professor of Visual Art at the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.