Streaming Alterity
Border Crossings, May Spring 2012, v. 1, no. 122
Steph Rogerson provides an overview of seven Canadian women artists tackling notions of identity politics in the exhibition, Streaming Alterity. The works of Rebecca Belmore, Emelie Chhangur, Johanna Householder, Pamila Matharu, Nadia Myre, Natalie Wood and Christina Zeidler apply various mediums to tackle extensive questions surrounding identity and "otherness." Although the majority of these works have been previously exhibited, curators Carla Garnet and Pamela Edmonds have strategically re-situated them to create new relationships and meaning. The exhibition provides a multiplicity of women's experiences in relation to identity and it also poses important questions about how these experiences originate and how they play out.
(Key Words: feminist, identity, otherness, women)
ITEM 2012.026 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Untitled 1, 2, 3 – Rebecca Belmore
Crossing the River – Emelie Chhangur
A New Hope – Johanna Householder
Future Utopias – Pamila Matharu
Wish – Nadia Myre
Will – Natalie Wood
Reverse – Christina Zeidler