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
Testament – Sunlip Gupta
Handsworth Songs – John Akomfran
Twilight City – Black Audio Film Collective
Urinal – Black Audio Film Collective
A Voice of Our Own – John Greyson
Nice Coloured Girls – Premika Ratnam / Ali Kazimi
Picking Tribes – Tracy Moffatt
Native Daughter – Saundra Sharp
Jeneva Shaw
Frances Loring
Florence Wyie