Season 5, Episode 7: Jump Over The Chasm With Ken Lum
In today’s episode of Glo Says Let's Talk Local Podcast - Season 5 - What ART thou? Where ART thou? (a weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Arts Podcast) host Gloria Chong and her co-host Kristin Lim talk to guest, Ken Lum (A Prolific Canadian Academic, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor and Writer) about what he does and his connection with Vancouver. He shares generously and genuinely about his background and also how he became an Artist Extraordinaire!
Key Points
He thought being a graphic illustrator, and that sort of stuff was basically the extent of being an artist. He didn't know anything beyond that. He didn't know anything about the world of Museums and Galleries but then he accidentally discovered this course at SFU.
Some artists have no problem with the market, but he always had a problem with it because it's always compromising of one's ideals of what art should do and how art should perform and that's one of the reasons he took the academic route.
Jump Over The Chasm With Ken Lum
Ken Lum Art
Website: www.kenlumart.com
Instagram: @ken__lum
Season Co-Host, Kristin Lim
LinkedIn: Kristin Lim
Instagram: @kristin.art.travel
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Episode Highlights
3:20 – Gloria says, Ken is a world famous artist with his roots are in Vancouver. He is currently the Chairperson of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania
4:35 – Ken states that he went to SFU as he just needed to get a new start.
7:33 – Ken didn’t know anything about Contemporary Art but then he discovered SFU, there was a Center for Contemporary Arts and they were just starting at that point.
11:29 – Art wasn't a dream for Ken; it was more of like an escape from lab life or escape from factory life.
19:21- Kristin asks Ken, when he started to pick-up his camera and go around photographing.
22:29 – Ken’s career started before he started doing a MFA at UBC.
24:50 – Ken speaks about Mariana Sziget whom he met in Vancouver Art Gallery Library. She was a nurse, but she loved art. He always went there to chitchat with her.
28:15 – Ken went the academic route because having a salary gives you some breathing space in the marketplace.
30:52 – Ken is working towards the show in New York and in January, and one of his screenplays is under discussion right now.