This is the Feminist Archive: Lisa Steele's The Gloria Tapes

Lisa Steele's The Gloria Tapes

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 unfamilar and strange. – Marusya Bociurkiw

Screening followed by conversation with Lisa Steele moderated by Marusya Bociurkiw

This is the Feminist Archive: Feminist Film and 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. 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. This screening series emerges from the SSHRC-funded project “The Personal is Digital: Remediating and Digitizing Canada’s Intergenerational Feminist & Queer Media Heritage", co-directed by Drs. Marusya Bociurkiw and Jonathon Petrychyn, with additional curation by Lexie Corbett and administration by Em Barton.

Special thanks to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Vtape, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Video Out/VIVO Media Arts Centre.

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