Re-Reading the 80s: Feminisms as Process in Vancouver

Works by the Association for Noncommercial Culture, Lorna Brown, Margot Leigh Butler,
Allyson Clay, Laiwan, Jin-me Yoon, Worksite

Curated by Jessie Caryl

February 27 through March 21, 2004
Opening Reception: Thursday 26 February 2004 from 8 to 10 p.m.*

PROGRAMMING:
Curator’s Tours in conjuction with InFest: Saturday 28 February and Sunday 29 February at 1 p.m.

Following the Saturday tour join Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter at 1.30pm
for a free public agit prop creation session in preparation for International Women's Day, March 6th.
For more information please call (604) 872-8212 or visit us at www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca

This exhibition reconsiders the critical strategies of artists Lorna Brown, Margot Leigh Butler, Allyson Clay, Laiwan, Jin-me Yoon, and the collaborative groups Worksite and the Association for Noncommercial Culture in relation to shifts in feminist theory and practice during the 1980s. The exhibition focuses on book works, journal interventions, installations, and ephemera addressing the intersecting issues of gender, identity, language and representation.

Rejecting a notion of feminism as fixed, stable, and past, the title of this exhibition refers instead to multiple, diverse, and continually shifting investigations of differently gendered and racialized identities. In the 1980s and 1990s, activist groups representing provisional alignments of race, class, gender, and sexuality challenged the exclusionary biases of institutions including feminism and the mainstream art system. At the same time, a number of artists drew upon feminist, psychoanalytic and post-colonial theory in order to critique the dominant systems of representation involved in formulating and fixing identities.

*The exhibition coincides with InFest: International Artist Run Culture, a Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres event. It is the first in a series of four exhibitions being curated this Spring by Master of Arts candidates in the Critical Curatorial Studies Programme at the University of British Columbia.

For more information contact Monika Szewczyk, Belkin Satellite Exhibition Coordinator at 604.822.3069 monikasz@interchange.ubc.ca. Belkin Satellite, 555 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2R1, Canada. Belkin Satellite Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12-5 pm. www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca