The Disfigured Identity: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru Symposium
Symposium Acknowledgments
The Symposium Organizing Committee of Jordan Strom and Ingrid Kolt (Surrey Art Gallery), Paul Wong (On Main Gallery), Kenneth Yuen (On Main Gallery), Kira Wu (Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Fine Arts Department), Summer Pervez (filmmaker), and Naveen Girn (convener) would like to thank the Katzie, Kwantlen and Semiahmoo peoples upon whose traditional and unceded territory this event takes place.
The Organizing Committee acknowledges the dedicated work of interns Angela Ko and Tommy Chain for their contributions to the website production and symposium transcriptions.
The Committee also recognizes the volunteers who came together to help make this event a success: Kwantlen Polytechnic University students Andres Salaz, Derek LeBeau, Robert Kovacic, and Steven Lee for their video & photo documentation assistance.
The weekend would not have been as engaging without the thoughtful sound contributions Hussein Alidina and Don Chow, along with Patrick Daggitt and Nahm Thai Bistro.
Special thank you to all the participating artists, filmmakers, organization directors, and curators for their presentations and to the guest panel moderators Summer Pervez and Steven Tong for keeping the discussion lively.
Surrey Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of City of Surrey, BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, and Vancouver Foundation.
On Main Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of Canada Council Equity Office, BC Gaming Multiculturalism, and BC Arts Council Co-op Placement. Symposium organizers thank Surrey Civic Theatres and Kwantlen Polytechnic University Faculty of Arts for their generous contributions.
Production Credits
Co-chairs Jordan Strom, Kira Wu and Paul Wong
Organizers Kwantlen Polytechnic University, On Main Gallery and Surrey Art Gallery
Organizing committee Ingrid Kolt, Summer Pervez, Kenneth Yuen, Jordan Strom, Kira Wu, Naveen Girn and Paul Wong
Video & photo documentation by Kwantlen Polytechnic University students Andres Salaz, Derek LeBeau, Robert Kovacic, Steven Lee
Video documentation Tommy Chain, Kenneth Yuen
Photographer Brian Giebelhaus
Website design and production On Main Gallery: Angela Ko and Tommy Chain
Additional video editing Derek LeBeau
Website editor Paul Wong
Book
Editors Lisa Marshall with Jordan Strom
Assistant editor Lisa Marshall,
Designer that blue
Publishers Kwantlen Polytechnic University Fine Arts, On Main Gallery and Surrey Art Gallery
Printed by East Van Graphics
The organizers gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of City of Surrey, BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, and Vancouver Foundation, Canada Council Equity Office, BC Gaming Multiculturalism, and BC Arts Council Co-op Placement, Surrey Civic Theatres and Kwantlen Polytechnic University Faculty of Arts.
Special thank you to all the artists, participants and volunteers.
