Sara Diamond fonds
Women, Art & the Periphery | Mujeres, arte y periferia
Artists-in-Residence, screening, installation, worshops, performance
Women, Art & the Periphery was a series of multimedia events conceived and curated by Sara Diamond featuring contemporary art by Chilean women who played an active role in unofficial culture developed in Chile after the 1973 military takeover. In the fall of 1987, Video In hosted the residency of Chilean artists Diamela Eltit, Nelly Richard and Lotty Rosenfeld (1943-2020) that included workshops, community meeting, an installation, and art action by Rosenfeld. The Floating Curatorial Gallery at Women in Focus presented multimedia works by thirteen Chilean contemporary artists, co-curatored by Eltit, Richard and Rosenfeld. Other events included Rosenfeld in residence at Western Front, Eltit’s talk at La Quena Coffeehouse, and several lectures at local universities.
This page features all documentation of the series. Please note materials are derived from the Sara Diamond, SVES, and Women In Focus fonds.
Extended documentation can be found here.
Colectivo de Acciones de Arte / Centre for Cultural Investigation and Artistic Creation – CADA (1979-1983) was formed by Eltit, Richard and Rosenfeld under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Santiago, Chile. This multidisciplinary space for production, publication and critical discourse. Their concerns included an exploration of Indigenous cultural forms and current Chilean issues in relation to Western-influenced experimental art forms.
Funding
A Canada Council Foreign Visiting Artist grant was applied for by Sara Diamond to fund travel for Rosenfeld, Richard, and Eltit. Women In Focus and Video In supplied program funding.
Grant application
SDA_Periphery-application
Award Letter
SDA_Periphery-award-letter
Video In Newsletter
Newsletter No.5 November 1987.
Publisher: Video In. Design: Joe Sarahan
Related Recordings
Nelly Richards Talk & Slide Presentation
The Development of Chilean Art
Video In, 1988.
SVES_0852a
SVES_0852b
Catalogue
Issue #42: Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall 1987
Issue functions as Catalogue for “Women Art and the Periphery”, video by Chilean Women at Video Inn and other locations, in collaboration with Women In Focus. Pages 7-16. Introductory text by acting editor, Karen Knights.
Publisher: Satellite Video Exchange Society
Editor: Karen Knights
Artists: Aguilar, Paulina; Barrios, Gracia; Berenguer, Carmen; Bru, Roser; Donoso, Luz; Eltit, Diamela; Errazurriz, Virginia; Errazurriz, Paz; Gonzales, Nury; Hughes, Helen; Rosenfeld, Lotty; San Martin, Julia; Toro, Julia; Binning, Sadhu; Hundal, Sukhwant; Samuel, Julien; Trujillo, Catalina
Curator(s)Clark, Donna; Richard, Nelly; Eltit, Diamela
Author(s)Eltit, Diamela; Richard, Nelly; Rosenfeld, Lotty; Cook, Conal; Condy-Berggold, Craig; Todd, Loretta; Tomlins, Colin; Knights, Karen; Ronderos, Cecelia
Year Published: 1987
Month Published: November
ISBN / ISSN #02286726
Relevant fonds
Sara Diamond fonds
Unique materials in the Sara Diamond fonds.
File: SD-04-01-002 – Diamela Eltit and Nelly Richards – interview
Creator: Sara Diamond
VIVO Media Arts Centre Page 394
SD Sara Diamond fonds
Title: Diamela Eltit and Nelly Richards – interview
ID: SD-04-01-002
Date: Undated (date of creation)
Physical description: 1 folder
Item located in box 54, folder 05
SVES fonds
Diamond and Karen Knights managed the project out of Video In.