This May Day screening features works by Jorge Lozano (Governor General’s Award Recipient, 2020) that draw on unfinished conversations begun on the picket line, the slow burn of social change, and slogans from past May Day demonstrations. His works employ what he refers to as a visual poetics of the streets, where he reflects on the intersections of race, class, and gender in considering who is permitted to participate in society, which lives are prioritized, and which are systematically overlooked. He pays particular attention to the presence of racialized and precarious workers, and his lived experience informs his deeply thoughtful and politically-charged video works.
Schedule:
Online Screening Program—Available 24/7 Online from April 30-May 3, 2021.
Hybrid Exhibition Space—Screening program on view in Factory Media Centre’s street-level rear projection screen from 6-10pm each evening, April 30 through May 3, 2021.
May 1: 4-6pm EST—Jorge Lozano Artist Talk in conversation with media artists John Isaiah Edward Hill and Jessica A. Rodríguez.
Screening Program Archive
1968 Graffiti (2006)
Property – a site of rupture (2020)
XRay(s) (2020)
Lenin’s Kiss (2020)
Thoughts from below (2019)
Artist Talk
May 1: 4-6pm EST – Jorge Lozano Artist Talk in conversation with media artists John Isaiah Edward Hill and Jessica A. Rodríguez
Speakers:
Jorge Lozano has been working as a film and video artist for the last 20 years and has achieved national and international recognition. His fiction films have been exhibited at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival amongst others. His experimental work has been exhibited at many international festivals and galleries. He has expanded his practice to the organization of many cultural and art events, the creation of aluCine, Toronto Latin Media Festival, and facilitating self-representations video workshops for marginalized Latin and non-Latin youth in Canada since 1991, Colombia 2005-2009, and Venezuela 2005.
Jessica A. Rodríguez is a multimedia artist, designer and researcher. She is currently completing a doctorate program in Communications, New Media, & Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Her practice and research projects focus on audiovisual practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, sound art, visualization/sonification, live coding, among others, collaborating with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists. She is co-founder of andamio.in, a collaboration platform that uses digital and analogue technologies to explore with text, visuals, and audio. She is also part of RGGTRN, a collective that engages in algorithmic dance music and audiovisual improvisation informed by Latinx experiences
John Isaiah Edward Hill is an Oneida artist and poet from Hamilton, Ontario. He holds a Honours Bachelor’s degree in Indigenous Studies and English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. His favourite mediums are sound, film, collage, and the zine. His work deals with themes related to his Haudenosaunee heritage, queer identity, and his working class roots. John uses he and they pronouns.
This program is co-presented by Factory Media Centre and Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.
About our partner:
Launched by a dynamic group of labour historians, artists, unions and community activists, the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (WAHC) was created to address the need for a place where workers’ history and culture could be celebrated. In 1995, the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre opened the doors of its permanent home, the historic Custom House in Hamilton’s North End. As a community museum and arts centre, WAHC provides an array of exhibitions, educational programs, guided tours, online exhibits and events within our community. WAHC is also home to a contemporary gallery, which shows work by local and national artists that address the diverse histories and cultures of all working people.
Contact:
Kat Williams – Outreach and Development Specialist
Email: kat@wahc-museum.ca
For questions or more information please email Kristina at info@factorymediacentre.ca
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