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Program 1: Seen on the Body

These intimate and complex works explore the frailties and conditions of the corporeal. Individual history and unexpected events imprint the body, gesture and activity make visible the realities of the physical, and imagined bodies provide a rich field for social critique and play. Here, experience and the passage of time are written on the skin, where desire, contradiction, repulsion, pleasure, incoherence, and irony all reside.

PROGRAM

  • What Food Did

    Directed by Toni-Lynn Frederick.
    British Columbia, 1996, video, color, 10 min.
  • The Better Me

    Directed by Cathy Sisler.
    Québec, 1995, video, color, 20 min.
  • 60 Unit; Bruise

    Directed by Kenneth Fletcher and Paul Wong.
    British Columbia, 1976, video, color, 5 min.
  • The Hundred Videos (excerpts)

    Directed by Steve Reinke.
    Ontario, 1990, video, color, 42 min.
  • Birthday Suit--With Scars and Defects

    Directed by Lisa Steele.
    Ontario, 1974, video, black & white, 12 min.

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