Identity and Consciousness:: (Re)Presenting the Self
Dunlop Art Gallery, 1991, pp. 5-11
Regina, SK: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1991
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Jan. 15-Feb. 12, 1991.Included work by international filmmakers and video artists involved in debates around identity. The films mostly work through an analytical process of reorganizing definitions of self by disproving stereotypes, creating new histories and new forms of representation, and demonstrating the effects of colonialism.
ITEM 1991.052 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
India Hearts Beat (1988) – Leila Sujir
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People (1982) – Ayoka Chenzira
Perfect Image? (1988) – Maureen Blackwood
The Displaced View (1988) – Midi Onodera
Looking for Langston (1988) – Isaac Julien
Cycles (1989) – Zeinabu Irene Davis
Coffee Coloured Children – Ngozi Onwurah
Emergence – Pratibha Parmar
Memory Pictures – Pratibha Parmar
Sunlip Gupta
Testament – John Akomfran
Handsworth Songs – Black Audio Film Collective
Twilight City – Black Audio Film Collective
Urinal – John Greyson
A Voice of Our Own – Premika Ratnam / Ali Kazimi
Nice Coloured Girls – Tracy Moffatt
Picking Tribes – Saundra Sharp
Native Daughter – Jeneva Shaw
Frances Loring
Florence Wyie