Last’s year’s Quebec Triennial at Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain reminded its viewers of the energy and diversity of the regional art scene in the midst of wide-open globalist art production and markets. “How Soon Is Now: Contemporary Art from Here” at the Vancouver Art Gallery is framed in similar terms, presenting the work of 34 artists based in British Columbia. Curated by the gallery’s assistant curator Kathleen Ritter, the show concentrates on emerging work in what the museum is calling “an inquiry into alternative narratives of art production, recognizing important shifts in contemporary art practice that privileges the event over the object, the process over the product, interaction over contemplation.” (750 Hornby St, Vancouver BC)

Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky Hanging Plant (dead) and Hanging Plant (living) 2008 Courtesy of the artists and Pari Nadimi Gallery

Marina Roy Apartment 2008 Installation view