Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Doors 5:30pm PDT | Welcome 6pm PDT
VIVO Media Arts Centre
Unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territory, Vancouver, Canada
EVENT SCHEDULE
MEDIA LIBRARY & DISPLAY
Latin American Collections
SCHEDULE
In the Microcinema & Lobby
5:30
Library listening and viewing stations. Archival Displays.
Selections by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
In the Studio
6:00
Welcome with Mary Point and Condesa Strain, xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)
We ask that all attendees be present in the Studio for this welcome.
6:15
Introductions and Welcome
Karen Knights (VIVO, ACA Case Study Lead)
Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda (Simon Fraser University)
Susan Lord (Queen’s University, VIVO Case Study Co-Lead)
Jessica Gordon-Burroughs video intro (University of Edinburgh, LASA)
6:30
Homage to Sonia Andrade
Selected work, Untitled 1974-1978
Screening curated and introduced by Elena Shtromberg
These short vignettes are some of the earliest videos produced in Brazil. Created during the height of censorship in Brazil during the military dictatorship, the video experiments comprising Untitled posit the body as the site of tensions, probing its limit as subject and object of electronic display. Andrade organizes her body in a direct critique of the dictatorship, situating it in precarious situations recalling scenes of torture and violence.
7:00
Cross-Generational Gendered Expressions of Home and Becoming in Latin American Video Art
Screening curated and introduced by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
A program of short works that broadly address the intersections of gender violence, diasporic identities, and conceptions of home and becoming from a female perspective. The program includes established and emerging artists, including Venezuelan born–Barcelona based Valentina Alvarado Matos and Brazilian Cynthia Domenico. Also, Chilean artists Gloria Camiruaga, Tatiana Gaviola and Soledad Farina whose work is part of the Women, Art and Periphery collection. Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles for language-dominant work.
Break
8:00
In Conversation
Karen Knights
Contextualizing the collections at the CDMLA
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
La portapak en Latinoamérica
Elena Shtromberg
Encounters with Video Art in Latin America
Sarah Shamash
Archive as intermedial activation
9:00
Food and casual conversation.
Library Listening and Viewing Stations. Archival display.
Tours of the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive.
Thank you to all our partners and participants, Mary Point, Condesa Strain, and VIVO staff – Genki Ferguson (Operations), Clark Henderson (Digitization Technician), Emma Metcalfe Hurst (Archivist), Mandana Mansouri (Video Out Distribution), Arman Paxad (Technician), Kendra Place (General Manager), Manuel Axel Strain (Communities Manager).
Special thanks to SFU Research Assistant Gabriel Moura Juliano and translators Maryvon Delanoe, Beatriz Pamela Diaz Salcedo.
