[acc-cca-l] JANUARY 23 THIS IS THE FEMINIST ARCHIVE SCREENING: THE GLORIA TAPES

[Emily Barton]

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Feminist Recycling Group presents….
Please join us for our fourth screening in This is the Feminist Archive: The Gloria Tapes (1980) followed by a conversation with Lisa Steele, moderated by Marusya Bociurkiw.

"The Gloria Tapes" will be January 23, 7-9PM, at Vtape (401 Richmond, suite 452). This 4-part series, drawing from the aesthetics of the soap opera, was inspired by Lisa Steele’s experience working at a women’s shelter for many years. Combining the self-reflexive strategies of video art at the time, with acute, documentary-like representations of female poverty and resilience, this uncanny work creates of the artist a double, revealing, to both artistic and feminist communities, that which is unfamiliar and strange. – Marusya Bociurkiw

This is the Feminist Archive: Canadian Film & Video 1970s-1990s
The four events in the series, screenings accompanied by conversations with the artists, recontextualize feminist film and video work as constitutive of archival futures; a future imperfect: what will be seen to have been. Too often, feminism is narrated and historicized as wholly outdated/transphobic/racist, invisibilizing BIPOC feminists who were leaders in the Canadian feminist movement and its art practice. Feminists themselves may attempt to disavow previous iterations of the movement. And yet, many examples of early feminist video engage, or invent avant-garde strategies, while also engaging in intersectional interrogations. The delimiting of the history of feminisms implicitly excludes much of the intersectional cultural work that was central to feminist projects. This is especially pertinent as American hegemony – the undoing of abortion rights, the war on trans bodies – continues to inform local and national contexts in Canada. The films and videos in the programs come from the last three decades of the 20th century when feminist political organizing was inextricable with women’s cultural production.

See you on the 23rd! Please look out for our upcoming screenings!






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