Swarm

Swarm is an annual festival of artist run culture organized by the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres . . .

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Thursday, September 8th, 2011

  1. ON MAIN
  2. VIVO Media Arts
  3. Gallery Map
  1. ON MAINThe Long Time: 21st Century Art of Steele + Tomczak. Curated by Paul Wong. 7-10pm - http://t.co/mAnNFsUz 1965 Main Street (map) (ics)
  2. VIVO Media ArtsThe Long Time: Steele+Tomczak-7PM. VIDEO BAR (afterparty) 10PM-2AM: IO Sound's SUBLIMINAL SLEEPLESS http://t.co/u3MxGGe6 1965 Main Street (map) (ics)

Friday, September 9th, 2011

  1. 221A
  2. Access Gallery
  3. Gallery Gachet
  4. Or Gallery
  5. UNIT/PITT Projects
  6. Gallery Map
  1. 221ASept 7 - Translation Services curated by Hyung-Min Yoon - Part 1: Description for Other Things by Ryu Hankil http://t.co/0NuSKylO 221 E Georgia Street (map) (ics)
  2. Access GalleryFAG Satellite / ChaseJoynt / RESISTERECTOMY / Reception 8pm http://t.co/F1xqDxNy 222 E. Georgia Street (map) (ics)
  3. Gallery GachetToday at 7pm, They say she is bipolar and he’s got OCD by Pierre Leichner, Gallery Gachet Opening for SWARM http://t.co/bjZmVc4s 88 East Cordova Street (map) (ics)
  4. Or GalleryScience Fiction 18:The Future from Memory // Allison Hrabluik, Emma Kay, and Elizabeth Zvonar // 8PM http://t.co/3p3O2e4n #Swarm13fr 555 Hamilton Street (map) (ics)
  5. UNIT/PITT ProjectsShannon Oksanen/Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time http://t.co/SB5GQJhB 15 E Pender Street (map) (ics)

What is Swarm?

Initiated by PAARC in 1999, Swarm began as an event to mark the launch of Vancouver’s artist-run centre programming season, bringing together events from some of the city’s most vital and innovative contemporary art spaces on a single frenetic evening. Swarm soon grew to a multi-night event, incorporating more and more of the city’s ephemeral artist-run initiatives: small DIY spaces, studios-turned-galleries, roaming public projects, artist collectives, and hybrid projects.

For detailed information on Swarm events or for press images, please contact each centre directly.

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Be Part of Swarm!

Embracing the festival’s viral nature, Swarm 13 makes innovative use of sites like Twitter and Google Maps to dynamically generate this year’s online festival guide. Venue participants are invited to “tag” their events in their Twitter feeds to identify them as part of the Swarm. This website then pulls these feeds into the list of events and generates venue maps. Similarly, gallery-goers are able to offer comments on the Swarm festival by marking their Twitter posts with a #SWARM13 tag.

For complete information on hosting a Swarm event, see the Read Me.

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