Saturday June 14 at noon
Tour of DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS II with Vincent Bonin (in French).
Tuesday June 3 at 6:00 pm
Screening of CONCEPTUAL PARADISE by Stefan Römer (110 minutes).
J.A. de Sève Cinema. Free Admission.
Thursday May 22 at 7:00 pm
Video screening at the Cinémathèque Québécoise.
THE END OF UTOPIA:
Joyce Wieland’s Pierre Vallières, shot in 16mm, is an “impure” object in the structuralist film repertory in that it is suggestive of the minimalism of video productions during the same period. The tapes by Martha Wilson, Eric Cameron and Lisa Steele demonstrate this connection. Prefiguring postmodernism, the works by Vincent Trasov and General Idea use irony to explore the troubled relations between artists and the media in the latter half of the 1970s.
- PIERRE VALLIÈRES (Joyce Wieland),
- PREMIERE, ROUTINE PERFORMANCE, ART SUCKS, APPEARANCE AS VALUE (Martha Wilson),
- INSERTION (Eric Cameron),
- OUTLAWS (Lisa Steele),
- MY FIVE YEARS IN A NUTSHELL (Vincent Trasov),
- PRESS CONFERENCE (General Idea).
Presented by Vincent Bonin, curator and guest programmer.
In collaboration with the Cinémathèque québecoise.
Cinémathèque québécoise admission.
Thursday May 15 at 7:00 pm
Video screening at the Cinémathèque québécoise.
SELF-MANAGEMENT AND VIDEO:
These tapes, made in the early 1970s, articulate the utopian discourse of artists’ collectives around the use of the Portapak while chronicling their alternative lifestyles. They also present the self-management of these collectives as a strategy for working outside existing institutions such as museums, galleries and private-sector audio-visual monopolies.
- THE RAYS (Raindance Corporation),
- PROCESS VIDEO REVOLUTION (Videofreex),
- ANT FARM’S DIRTY DISHES (Ant Farm),
- ENTRÉE EN SCÈNE/SÉLECTOVISION/ÉDITOMÈTRE (Vidéographe),
- INN COUNTER 1977 (Janet Miller).
Presented by Vincent Bonin, curator and guest programmer.
In collaboration with the Cinémathèque québecoise.
Cinémathèque québécoise admission.
Tuesday May 13 at 6:00 pm
Tour of CONCEPTUAL FILIATIONS with Michèle Thériault (in English), and tour of DOCUMENTARY PROTOCOLS II with Vincent Bonin (in French).