Curated by Shani K Parsons, Love’s Labours is a 50-minute video program on intersections of motherhood and artistic practice as they relate to issues of care. Including historical film excerpts, experimental film and video, mini-documentary interviews, and spoken word/music, Love’s Labours explores how a number of artists have wrestled with obligations, aspirations, and transformations that the physical, mental, emotional labours of motherhood bring to bear upon their inner worlds and identities as they negotiate the intensities and intimacies of maternal and artistic life in the face of systemic pressures and inequities.
Program
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollens, Riddles of the Sphinx (excerpt), 1977, 6:10 min.
Lu Heintz, Lead, Follow, 2016, 2:12 min.
Mary Kelly, Post Partum Document, 1973-79, TateShots, 2015, 4:17 min.
Mirha-Soleil Ross, Lullaby, 2001, 4:00 min.
Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Nitanish (To my Daughter), 2015, 3:03 min.
Jules Arita Koostachin, Niso kakastesinowin, 2011, 2:30 min.
Tracey Kershaw, Dropping peas picking up peas, 2011, 0:45 min.
Megan Wynne, My Puppet, 2014, 1:54 min.
Megan Wynne, Floor Birth, 2016, 0:09 min.
Betye and Alison Saar, Similar Differences,1990, 9:30 min.
Alison Saar, Bearing, 2015-16, 6:41 min.
Cara Mumford and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Leaks, 2013, 2:42 min.
Lu Heintz, I love you, 2014, 3:00 min.
Kelly O’Brien, How Does Life Live?, 2017, 3:31 min.
This program is presented as part of The Let Down Reflex on view at the Blackwood Gallery from October 16–November 4, 2017, and as part of Take Care, Circuit 2: Care Work.
Love's Labours
Saturday October 28, 1pm
Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto
Curated by Shani K Parsons
- Curator
- Shani K Parsons
The Blackwood Gallery is grateful for additional support for Circuit 2: Care Work from the Department of Visual Studies (UTM); McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, Faculty of Information (UTSG); Parkland on the Glen Retirement Living; The Revue Cinema; Streetsville Public Library; Student Housing and Residence Life (UTM); Women and Gender Studies (UTM); Visual Arts Mississauga; University of Toronto Affinity Partners Manulife, TD Insurance, and MBNA.
Funding for additional staff support was made possible through the Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations program, Department of Canadian Heritage. The Canadian Museums Association administers the program on behalf of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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