Surrey Art Gallery hosts free symposium Disrupting the Everyday: Women’s Experimental Video and Film, November 18
Event co-convened by gallery curators Sameena Siddiqui and Jordan Strom features a diverse array of speakers and experimental film screenings
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Paribartana Mohanty’s Rice, Hunger, Sorrow (20 minutes, 2021, India).
Surrey Art Gallery presents the media arts symposium Disrupting the Everyday: Women’s Experimental Video and Film on November 18 from 12 pm to 4:30 pm.
Co-convened by gallery curators Sameena Siddiqui and Jordan Strom, this free event features leading practitioners and writers in the field of media art from Toronto, Montreal, Mumbai, and New Delhi.
The event shows the South Asian Visual Arts Centre’s MONITOR 15 experimental film and video program. Clearings in the Fog, curated by Faraz Anoushapour, is presented as part of the program’s 15th anniversary.
The afternoon begins with MONITOR 15 screenings. Short-form films and videos will be screened by Mani Mazinani (Iran, Canada), Ali Satri Effendi (Indonesia), Abeer Khan (Bombay), Nimisha Srivastava (New Delhi), Nada El-Omari (Canada, Palestine, Egypt), and Paribartana Mohanty (Orissa). The films and videos address themes such as power inequality through intergenerational narratives, violence against women’s bodies, and environmental crises.
“The filmmakers in the symposium,” says Siddiqui in a release, “have used feminist mediated practices, intersectional approaches, and intergenerational dialogue to reflect on pressing issues of systemic structural gender oppression.”
Nimisha Srivastava’s Chadariya (25 minutes, 2022, India).
Mumbai-based art critic and curator Nancy Adajania will deliver the event’s keynote talk. Additional speakers include Toronto-based South Asian Visual Arts Centre curator Abedar Kamgari; Toronto-based MONITOR 15 curator Faraz Anoushapour; Vancouver-based filmmakers Nimisha Srivastava, Abeer Khan, and Patricia Gruben; Montreal-based video artist Sharlene Bamboat; and Vancouver-based scholar Sunera Thobani.
Adajania was co-artistic director of South Korea’s ninth Gwangju Biennale in 2012. She has curated a number of groundbreaking exhibitions, including 2022’s Woman Is As Woman Does at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum with the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation. The project was a first-ever intergenerational mapping of the works of female Indian artists, filmmakers, and activists against the backdrop of the women’s movement in India.
This year’s media arts symposium is presented in partnership with the South Asian Visual Arts Centre, which is based in Toronto, and the Critical Image Forum at the University of British Columbia’s department of art history, visual art, and theory. Additional financial support is provided by the Hari Sharma Foundation.
More details about the event are available here.
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Nada El-Omari’s from where to where لوين وين من d’où vers où, (8 minutes, 2022, Canada, Palestine, Egypt).