Short films by Canadian lesboqueer artists (1990-2001), selection curated by Kristen Hutchinson
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | 7:00 pm @ GIV
On the occasion of the exhibition We’re Here. We’re Lesboqueer. We’re Still Fabulous, presented at Artexte until June 21 by curator Kristen Hutchinson, and in collaboration with the Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), we are pleased to present this program of seven short films and videos made by Canadian lesboqueer artists between 1990 and 2001.
Drawn from GIV’s extensive collection, the selection curated by Hutchinson expands on the themes explored in the exhibition, highlighting the media works produced by Canadian lesboqueer artists during this pivotal era.
The exhibition and screening seek to bring the works and lives of Canadian lesboqueer artists into greater visibility as we are often overlooked within the overly restrictive and traditional confines of the canons of art history. They have chosen diverse films and videos from the GIV archive to showcase the breadth of works that were created by Canadian lesboqueer artists during this period.
Event location:
GIV [105-4001 Berri St, Montreal, H2L 4H2]
More details about the video selection HERE (available in French only)
About the collaborator:
Founded in Montreal in 1975, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) is one of the few centers in the world dedicated to the preservation and promotion of media artworks by women (women is used here in the most inclusive sense of the term), distributing and disseminating them while actively supporting production. Anchored in an intersectional approach, GIV supports artists of different ages, backgrounds and communities, and the practice of media arts in its various forms and currents, both artistic and action-oriented.
About the curator:
Kristen Hutchinson is a queer and gender fluid (they/she) visual artist, cultural critic, curator, writer, editor, and adjunct professor of art history, feminism, media studies, and popular culture. She received their PhD in History of Art from University College London in 2007 and has taught in numerous universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. They are the author of three books: Monsters No More: How We Came to Love Denizens of the Dark (Leanpub, 2025), Prairie Tales: A History (Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society, 2017) and Kiss & Tell: Lesbian Art & Activism (Art Canada Institute, June 2025). They have been a nationally syndicated art and popular culture columnist at CBC Radio and were the editor-in-chief of Luma Quarterly.
In her artistic practice, she uses collage, photography, video, installation, and performance art to investigate the realms of memory, beauty, mortality, embodiment, the environment, urban space, queerness, and the macabre. Kristen is the co-founder of fast & dirty, a Montréal and Edmonton based curatorial and artist collective that creates projects that challenge curatorial methods and exhibitions and art events for short durations in unusual environments. She also teaches independent seminars in her living room and online.