Subjects on the Threshold: Problems with the Pronouns
Parachute, Winter 1993, no. 69, pp. 14-21
This article focuses on gender ideology by exploring such tropes as seduction courtship, the energies of quest, and searching for female position. Through various examples of Canadian video art the author looks at feminism, depictions of the body and culture and identity to explain these trots.
ITEM 1993.057 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Birthday Suit - With Scars and Defects – Lisa Steele
Helene Bourgault
Chaperons Rouges – Helene Doyle
Lisa Steele
Working the Double Shift – Kim Tomczak
Leila Sujir
India Hearts Beat – Elizabeth Schroeder
I Can't Get Over What I Saw – Su Rynard
Absence – Sara Diamond
Heroics – Janice Marchessault
The Act of Seeing with Another Eye – Catherine Richard
Spectral Bodies