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Working Papers Series: Jonathan Petrychyn | An Archive of Fevers
Date
Location
Free Times Cafe
320 College St
Toronto ON M5T 1S3
Canada
Event Description
Join us for the inaugural iteration of the Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, which brings together PhD students from different Universities to hear about exciting doctoral research in the area of archival studies. Our first speaker is Dr. Jonathan Petrychyn (PhD, Communication & Culture, York and Ryerson University). Based on his dissertation research, “A Network of Feelings: Affective Economies of Queer & Feminist Film Festivals on the Canadian Prairies,” Jonathan’s talk will explore the affective dimensions of queer and feminist archives in the Prairies, and will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by our student organizers, Michael Marlatt and Axelle Demus.
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Gathering Across Moana: Reception
Date
Location
Trinity Square Video + CFMDC
401 Richmond St W #121 (TSV) + 32 Lisgar Street (CFMDC)
Toronto ON M5V 3A8
Canada
Event Description
Indigenous peoples have drawn connections across vast distances, continents, and bodies of water for thousands of years, revealing the space between us as a potential site for sharing knowledge, experience, and technology. Working from the Pacific view of water (moana and vai) as a mode of connection between islands, and by extension, Turtle Island (North America), these exhibitions will explore the transference of ideas through various media across geographic distances, timespans, and cultures. Together these artists delve into the sharing of knowledge and postulate locations of connection in the future, including imagined concepts of place. Presented with by imagineNATIVE, Trinity Square, A Space Gallery, and CFMDC, and curated by GLAM collective with Noor Bhangu.
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Archive/Counter-Archive and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) announce inaugural Artist Residencies
Archive/Counter-Archive and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) are delighted to announce the results of their inaugural artist residencies at LAC: Jennifer Dysart (fall 2019) and Nadine Valcin (winter 2020). The artists were selected from 53 outstanding submissions made during the one-month open call, which attracted applications from across Canada.
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A/CA Distinguished Speaker Series: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Date
Location
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
Canada
Event Description
A/CA's Distinguished Speaker Series kicks off in September with "Living Archive: Archive work as social and political practice," a talk by Berlin-based film and video curator Stefanie Schulte Strathaus.
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Margaret Perry Case Study: Y1 Update
An update from lead Jennifer VanderBurgh on the Margaret Perry and Nova Scotia Film Archives Case Study, including special photos of ephemera found this year, courtesy of Perry's granddaughter!
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Vulnerable Media Lab: Y1 Update
With construction and installation at Queen’s University completed this past year, the VML started up work with three A/CA Case Studies. Read more about Queen's University's state of the art Vulnerable Media Lab, constructed and installed this past year!
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Winnipeg Film Group Case Study: Y1 Update
An update from lead Andrew Burke on the first phase of the Winnipeg Film Group Case Study, including a shortlist of six works sent to the Vulnerable Media Lab.
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Urban Shaman Case Study: Y1 Update
An update of activities and upcoming plans from Case Study lead Jessica Jacobson-Konefall on Archive/Counter-Archive's Case Study on Urban Shaman and Shoal Lake 40.
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Don’t Believe the ’69 Hype! [screening + discussion]
Date
Location
2 Daly Avenue
Ottawa ON K1N 7B9
Canada
Event Description
A/CA Post-Doctoral fellow Ryan Conrad is sharing new work in Ottawa! Join us for an artist talk and panel on the mythologies and realities of the 1969 Criminal Code reform and its impact on the lives of queers, sex workers, and those seeking abortions. The event will begin with a brief talk and screening from artist/activist Ryan Conrad. Ryan’s talk will be followed by context-setting commentary from Tom Hooper, Ummni Khan and Darrah Teitel.
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69 Positions: Porter témoignage | Our Vanishing
Date
Location
3680 rue Jeanne-Mance, Bureau 103
Montreal QC H2X 2K5
Canada
Event Description
Examining queer life on the 50th anniversary of 1969, this lucid, critical, and playful exhibition features archival works from the collections of VIVO Media Arts, Vidéographe, les Archives gaies du Québec, the ArQuives, and ARTEXTE, alongside works by collectives such as the Front de Libération Homosexuelle and works that flutter out of the archive by contemporary artists Hazel Meyer, David Widgington and Projet Hybris.
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The Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
Date
Location
Various
Hanover - Durham - Saugeen First Nation ON N4N 3B8
Canada
Event Description
This year, the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film premieres three films made in the Saugeen Takes on Film (STOF) workshop, supported by Archive/Counter-Archive. STOF is a result of a collaboration of the Saugeen First Nation Employment and Training Centre, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, and the Film Farm.
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Book Launch & Reception - Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age
Date
Location
350 King St. West, 4th Floor
Toronto ON M5V 3X5
Canada
Event Description
Join us for the book launch and reception of Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age, co-edited by Scott MacKenzie and A/CA Project Director Janine Marchessault. The book contains essays by numerous A/CA collaborators and partners, and is the “first book to trace the development of handmade and hand-processed film in its historical and contemporary contexts, and from a global perspective” (2019, McGill-Queen’s University Press).