Welcome to Joseph Banh Photography & Projects
I’m currently in the process of completing my master’s degree in the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at York & Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Canada. My current research is on the uses of culture in the context of the global cultural city. I am interested in how culture is increasing mobilized as a socio-economic expedient in processes of culture-led urban regeneration. Specifically, I am researching Toronto’s contemporary art festival Nuit Blanche (based on the original Parisian festival of the same name), as both an important public culture event, and as part of the city’s place-marketing strategy in its renaissance as a “creative city”. The intersections between contemporary art, curatorial practice, the urban festival as a public mode of address and the the possibilities of reinvigorating the public sphere are addressed.
Since academia has currently taken over my life this means that time to create art has been severely limited and replaced by much reading and theorizing. However, once the degree is over and done with, back to the studio! Also, stay tuned for some interesting curatorial projects that are in the works!
If you are in Toronto on May 5th, 2009, please come by for the opening of a group printmaking exhibit ‘A Sense of Place’, at the University of Toronto Art Centre (the show runs May 5 - August 1 and will be touring Ontario). Details found here: http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/content/view/155/33/
Please feel free to look around and contact me if you feel compelled. Thanks for visiting.
best,
Joe Banh
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