Breaking Through: Conscience and the Status Quo
Breaking Through: Conscience and the Status Quo, 1985, p. 1
Toronto: A Space/ Vtape/ The Toronto Arts Council, 1985
The show Breaking Through: Conscience and the Status Quo, consists of 3 programs of international works in which video is used as an active instrument of intervention with which to reconcile and participate in social and political issues. The programs focus on living conditions as the expression of a social politic; the influence of mass media in directing the societal frame of reference; and the role of the police as agents for powerful forces of control over descent. Ten (10) works are shown in total and these independent videos represent conditions of challenging or perpetuating disempowerment.
ITEM 1985.045 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
100 Aboriginal Women – Amelia Productions
Great Expectations – Amelia Productions
Sunday Afternoon in the Infirmary – Norman Cohen
The Fleck Women – Kem Murch
Only Doing Their Job? - The Police, The Law and The Miners – The Miners Campaign Tape Project
Carry Greenham Home – Beeban Kidron
Carry Greenham Home – Amanda Richardson
Your Money Or Your Life – Laura Kipnis
Working the Double Shift – Kim Tomczak
Working the Double Shift – Lisa Steele
Framed Youth - Revenge of the Teenage Perverts – Gay and Lesbian Video Project
Homeless Gene – Jon Alpert