Critical Writing Index

LEAKS: Beneath the Surface. Video Art from British Columbia (Magnetic North Series) vol.8

by Laura Mackay and Paul Wong

Halifax: Centre For Art Tapes, 2002

Programme for LEAKS, "a screening of recent short works by Vancouver video makers, the curator, Paul Wong, describes each one and comments on the increasing democratization and availability of video equipment and the corresponding need for community and political work that counters the mainstream." (Quote taken from the artexte website.) The screening was the eighth installment of an eleven-part curated video art series, Magnetic North: A Cross Canada Curated Video Art Series, which kicked off July 1999.

ITEM 2002.227 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Ivan Coyote

Nitanisda Dejarlais

Shawn Durr

Forbes Latimer

Ripper Velcrow

Joe Sarahan

Tero Snelgrove

Susan Stewart

Laurel Swenson

Rj Tuna

Wayne Yung