Media Nights with VIVO @ QAF 2020

The Pride in Art Society produces, presents and exhibits with a curatorial vision that favours challenging, thought-provoking work that pushes boundaries and initiates dialogue,  through theQueer Arts Festival (QAF), an annual, professional, artist-run, multidisciplinary festival at theRoundhouseand at theSUM Gallery, located in the Sun Wah building in the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown.We work on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwəta? (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. To these host nations, we say thank you for your stewardship of this land since time immemorial. We recognize their sovereignty, as there are no treaties on these lands, and we are committed to building right relations based on respect and consent.

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Queer media that ruptures normative notions of gender, pleasure, and activism, curated in partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre.

Rupture Probe and Return to Sodom North look at the continuity of themes across the two decades that separate the works. They also illustrate the resilience of shorter experimental forms that emerging queer festivals preferred and rapidly evolving technologies coveted. However, while Vancouver artists in the ‘90s were informed by previous decades, their work suggests an impatience for the new millenium. Today, as artists approach this fifth decade of queer Canadian media art, Rupture Probe also samples works that reflect on the past, applying critical remediation to its radical legacies (Slumberparty 2018) and incisive dismantling of historical oppressions (Framing Agnes, Less Lethal Fetishes).Registering for this event will provide a link with access to both screenings on July 18 &amp; 19.To preserve the quality of the streaming experience, space in events is limited. Register via Eventbrite today to secure your spot and receive access on the day of the event. RUPTURE PROBE | Queer Inquiries &amp; Remediations | Sat, Jul 18 | 7PM PST Recent queer shorts rupture normative notions of gender, pleasure, and activism. Employing remediation and experimental narrative and forms, artists probe transgender and non-binary experience, new erotic signifiers, and inventive strategies for dissent and celebration.Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt, 2018, 19min) Lesbian Hand Gestures (Carol Short, 2011, 3min) Less Lethal Fetishes (Thirza Cuthand, 2019, 10min)Slumberparty 2018 (Cait McKinny &amp; Hazel Meyer, 2018, 24min) Paisa (Dorian Wood, Graham Kolbeins, 2019, 9min)RETURN TO SODOM NORTH | Vancouver Queer Video 1993-2000 | Sun, Jul 19 | 7PM PSTAt Video In and elsewhere in the ‘90s, a new generation of queer artists were expanding the west coast response to ongoing racialized and gendered suppression of queer bodies, expression,and desire. Experimental narrative, appropriation, and remediation marked video storytelling. Characteristics of abbreviation, play, and provocation portent the queer potential of new platforms and emergent counterpublics that would define the new milennium. The sum of this work speaks to the desire for a more equitable future; one executed with rigour, joy, and delicious wickedness. *The title is derived from R.E.A.L. Women’s attempt to ban the 1990 Gay Games, warning B.C. would become Sodom North. The moniker was quickly appropriated for the queer publication, Sodomite Invasion, and Video In’s screening, Sodom North Bash Back. Boulevard of Broken Sync (Winston Xin, 1996, 3min)Helpless Maiden Makes an I Statement (Thirza Cuthand, 1999, 6min)Defiance (Maureen Bradley, 1993, 6:50min)Surfer Dick (Wayne Yung, 1997, 3:20min)Unmapping Desire (Sheila James, 1999, 6:42min)Transmission (Ivan Coyote, 1998, 7min) Water Into Fire (Zachery Longboy, 1994, 10min)View (Shani Mootoo, 2000, 6min)Search Engine (Wayne Yung, 1999, 4min)-------VIVO Media Arts Centre, incorporated as Satellite Video Exchange Society, is a steward of critical history and an agent for emergent experimental media arts practices. Our programs 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. VIVO builds an engaged audience through workshops, production support, distribution, artist residencies, workshops, performances, exhibitions and curatorial and archival research. Through these activities and the extensive resources of Western Canada’s largest repository of media art history, VIVO plays a unique role in facilitating and fostering artistic practices in the region including of queer artists, activists, collectives and organizations.VIVO&#x27;s Crista Dahl Media Library &amp; Archive and Video Out Distribution steward and disseminate a queer media, publications, and histories from the 1960s - present. Many are freely available online at vivomediaarts.com/archive. All materials are accessible in-house. Holdings can be searched through Every Queer Thing (vivomediaarts.com/archive/every-queer-thing).All online events at the 2020 Queer Arts Festival are by donation to improve accessibility. We rely on ticket sales and donations to bring you Vancouver&#x27;s only transdisciplinary professional arts festival dedicated to showing the work of 2SLGBTQ+ artists. Now more than ever your donations are critical! Donors who give over $20 will be mailed a charitable tax receipt. Queer Arts Festival: Wicked July 16 - July 26 | Queer Arts Festival 2020 QAF’s Wicked reimagines identity politics, exposing the implications of homonormativity as erasure. This past decade has seen the mainstreaming of gay; sexual difference wins approval so long as it is palatable, marketable, and doesn’t stray too far from bourgeois notions of taste and morality. The commodification of queer experience is inextricably linked to the pathologization of the queer body, where medical and sociological interventions adjudicate which anatomies and passions are accepted as authentic. There’s no place like home for the Wicked Witch of the West, green by devilment and through her magical aberrance. QAF 2020 forsakes the yellow brick road that leads only to a man behind a curtain gentrifying our desires. Instead, QAF revels in the quintessentially queer traditions of scandal and excess with visual art, performance, theatre, music, dance and literary events! QAF’s Wicked runs 11 days from our digital hub, coming soon. Highlights include Jonny Sopotiuk’s visual arts curation; choreographer Noam Gagnon’s raucously vulnerable Swan Song, This Crazy Show; Indigenous Burlesque with Virago Nation’s Too Spirited; and the latest offering from non-binary drag collective The Darlings. Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. ― Oscar Wilde

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