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We are excited to announce our collection of educational guides for the "Gendered Violence: Responses and Remediations in the VIVO Media Arts Centre" Case Study.
VIVO Media Arts Centre is located on the unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. Incorporated as Satellite Video Exchange Society in 1973, VIVO Media Arts Centre is a steward of critical history and an agent for emergent experimental media arts practices. Through its activities and extensive archival resources, VIVO plays a unique role in facilitating and fostering artistic practices in the region. VIVO's programmes—including workshops, production support, distribution, artist residencies, performances, and exhibitions as well as curatorial and archival research—foster formal and critical approaches to media arts, and reflect the diversity of contemporary technologies and communities that coalesce around new forms of knowledge and creativity. The Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive (CDMLA) at VIVO stewards a significant repository of videotapes by artists and independent producers. Spanning over 50 years of production, its nearly 8,000 media works reflect the complexity of video art history.
The case study activated three archival collections held at VIVO’s CDMLA that focus on the subject of gendered violence as it was discussed, debated, and exhibited in and around Vancouver in the 1980s. Although united by a common theme, these collections span a variety of topics: the 1989 In Visible Colours film and media festival which aimed to foreground discussions of settler colonialism, decolonization, indigeneity, and solidarity; feminist porn wars and resistance to censorship; and, activist video responses to the Pinochet dictatorship. Taken together, these three collections generate intersectional and multigenerational dialogue about gendered violence; as such, the films and videos in this archive are modes of creative resistance against several forms of subordination and oppression.
In partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre, the Archive/Counter-Archive project has developed three educational guides that engage with each collection as part of its Gendered Violence: Responses and Remediations Case Study. Each of the guides are outlined here, on our website. Please click on the links below to access each of these guides and their film programmes on VUCACU.com.
- Revisiting In Visible Colours: An International Women of Colour and Third World Women Film/Video Festival and Symposium (1989). Curated by Ana Valine and Roya Akbari. [$10]
- Vancouver’s 1980s Feminist Debates: Pornography and Censorship in the Archives. Curated by Ana Valine. [Free]
- Women, Art, and the Periphery & Latin American Video Art in the VIVO Media Arts Centre Archives. Curated by Roya Akbari. [$10]
For more of our educational guides focused on our A/CA Case Studies, see Nova Scotia Archives, Vtape, and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC). You can find PDF copies of these guides on the main VUCAVU Educational Guides information page and additional information on their pages on the A/CA website (linked above). Learn more about our Educational Guides series.