Film screening curated by AHVA graduate st udents
We perform our daily routines in environments\, virtual or rea l\, that record and use our images\, information\, and biographic details i n diverse ways. Aware that surveillance cameras and tracking systems are pe rvasive\, we habitually filter out their presence regardless. Our ability t o tolerate and even flaunt this omnidirectional\, surveillant gaze relies o n assumptions about the frequency and banality of surveillance activity. As society moves towards a structure that is fully regulated\, tracked\, and documented\, the volumes of image-data required are furiously expanding\, f illing up ever-accumulating archives that paradoxically function to erase a s much as to preserve.
The artists in this program find ways to make this seemingly inadequate data speak\, to locate the extraordinary within t he trivial. In Christina Battle’s short video\, the CIA’s legacy of spying and the mysterious secrecy of its archive visually erupts\, only to reveal a paucity of information and the mundane labour of filing. John Smith likew ise offers minimal yet pointed visual imagery while producing a personal na rrative that navigates the increasing pressures of state surveillance accum ulating outside the frame. And in her experimental documentary Rebecca Baro n explores historical precedents for public surveillance through the twinne d developments of lens-based camera technology and the mass observation mov ement. In each of the works\, the technologies of surveillance reveal thems elves at once as personally subjective\, authoritatively powerful\, and det ermined by multiple\, unknowable agents. — STEPHEN WICHUK AND JAYNE WILKIN SON
Wandering Through Secret Storms Christina Battle/Canada
2009. DV\, 6 mins.
Frozen War John Smith/Great Britain 2002
\, DV\, 13 mins.
Dirty Pictures John Smith/Great Britain 200
2. DV\, 14 mins.
How Little We Know of Our Neighbours Rebecc
a Baron/USA 2005. DV 49 mins.
Total running time: approx. 83 mins.
This program was curated by graduate students at the University of Brit ish Columbia in a seminar\, led by John O’Brian of the Dep artment of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory\, titled “Surveillance\, V oyeurism\, Criminality\, and Photography.” Participants included Vi kki Addona\, Kate Henderson\, Jeremy Jaud\, Kyoung Yong Lee\, Dana Loughlin \, Vanessa Parent\, Robin Simpson\, Sofia Stalner\, Shalini Vanan\, Stephen Wichuk\, and Jayne Wilkinson.
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