CCCP Lecture: Stan Douglas at Columbia
Acclaimed Canadian artist Stan Douglas delivers a lecture at Columbia exploring his conceptual photography and film installations.
Why we picked this
Douglas's photographs look like documentary evidence from events that never happened -- his Columbia lecture is a chance to understand how he builds those uncanny parallel histories.
Stan Douglas, one of the most significant artists working with photography and film today, delivers a lecture at Columbia University as part of the CCCP (Columbia Center for Contemporary Practice) series. Douglas is known for large-scale photographs and film installations that reconstruct historical moments with forensic precision — then reveal that what you’re seeing never actually happened.
His work has explored the 2011 Stanley Cup riots, disco-era New York, and mid-century television, always blurring the line between documentation and fiction. The result is art that makes you question how images construct historical memory.
Douglas represented Canada at the 2022 Venice Biennale and has exhibited at major institutions worldwide. This free lecture at Columbia offers a rare opportunity to hear him discuss his process directly.