Latin American Video Art in the VIVO Media Arts Archive @ LASA 2023- Vancouver
Latin American Video Art in the VIVO Media Art Archive
On May 26 2023we were honoured to host a video screening and library showcase of Latin American Video Art in the VIVO Media Art Archive.
Organized in collaboration with Archive/Counter Archive (ACA) and the LASA Film Studies and Visual Culture section ( via Jessica Gordon-Burroghs), Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda curated a short screening selection of videos that broadly dealt with the theme of gender violence in response to VIVO’s ACA case study on Gendered Violence: Responses and Remediations.
Taking the documentation of the 1987 event series, Women, Art and the Periphery, as a point of departure, this screening and library showcase features a selection of Latin American video, audio, and archival documentation that addresses gendered violence through a multigenerational and intersectional lens
The event featured an homage to Brazilian video artist Sonia Andrade curated by Elena Shtromberg to honour Andrade's recent passing as well as a selection of Latina American videos that are part of the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archives at VIVO as well a discussion on Latin American video art with Elena Shtromberg, Jessica Gordon-Burroughs, Susan Lord, Karen Knights, Sarah Shamash and Gabriela Aceves on the occasion of the publication Encounters in Video Art in Latin America (Getty Publications, 2023) edited by Elena Shtromberg and Glenn Phillips.
Cross-Generational Gendered Expressions of Home & Becoming in Latin American Video Art
This video art program curated by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda features works that broadly address the intersections of gender violence, diasporic identities, and conceptions of home and becoming from a female perspective. The program includes established and emerging artists, including Venezuelan born–Barcelona based Valentina Alvarado Matos, Brazilian Cynthia Domenico and Chileans Gloria Camiruaga, Tatiana Gaviola and Soledad Farina, which are part of VIVOs Women Art and Periphery Collection.
Media Showcase: Latin American Producers in VIVO’s Library and Archive
The selection of media by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda consisted of video works from the library and the VIVO’s audio and video event documentation collection that broaden the scope to diverse perspectives on violence, touching on the legacies of colonialism on queer bodies, the experiences of political exile, the crossing of militarized borders, living under a dictatorship, queer science fiction, and identity politics and art-making in Canada.
Artists represented included María Magdalena Campos Pons, José Bedia, Ximena Cuevas, Emilio Rojas, Sarah Shamash, Mauricio Saenz, Diego Ramírez, Ruben Torres, Sakino Sepúlveda, and Carlos Yamil Neri Maldonado. It also includes selections from Women Art and the Periphery Collection (1987), Karen Ranucci’s Democracy in Communication (1986), and curators Dana Claxton, Melba Alfaro and Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet’s collaborative series (Video In and the First Nations Access Program) Videos that Unmask, Test & Invade the Colonial System (1992).
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English.
Program: Selections from the CDMLA by Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda
This list contains details on the videos and audio recordings made available online for a limited time.
Researchers interested in viewing these works should contact library (at)@vivomediaarts.com for remote access.
Image: Gloria Camiruaga, Popsicles , video still
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, curator; Karen Knights , curator; Gabriel Juliano, research assistant.
