Video

Archival Moments In An Ongoing Set Of Power Relations

Leila Sujir

1992, 10:00 minutes, colour

TAPECODE 10035

This video installation works with archival historical footage in a poetic haunting of history: three pink marble video monuments to remember buried moments in national and provincial policies (in particular, in British Columbia) which continue to shape attitudes today. Although the legislation and policies restricting Asian immigration and taking away the vote from Asian Canadian and First Nations people have been changed, the attitudes remain. These video "dreams" address both the public and the private lives affected by these policies. Additionally, the video "dreams" explore the emotional resonance, the haunting of history through the trace that remains: the European colonizers' separation of the world into "civilization" and its other, the "primitive", to justify the grand thefts of resources and exploitation of peoples - thefts which continue today.

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