[van-announce] Radical Rhizome this Thursday !!

[Programming & Communications]

Radical Rhizome 2
Public Art Provoking Dialogue
8pm, Thursday October 17, 2002
Video In, 1965 Main St.
Vancouver
604.872.8337
<http://www.videoin.ca>      www.videoin.ca


Second in the Radical Rhizome series 'Public Art Provoking Dialogue' will
feature a presentation on "NHI - No Humans Involved", a public art project
which took place in San Diego in 1992. Artists Deborah Small, Elizabeth
Sisco, Carla Kirkwood, Scott Kessler and Louis Hock produced this work to
address the unsolved, and in many cases uninvestigated, sexual assaults and
murders of forty-five San Diego women between 1985-1992. The project takes
its name from a term used by police for what they describe as
"...'misdemeanour murders' of biker women and hookers... Sometimes we'd call
them ‘NHIs’ - no humans involved." By using the phrase "NHI" as the title of
their project, the artists shaped the language and focus around which the
story of the unsolved murders and police investigations would be publicly
discussed, widely debated and contested. This is just one of the techniques
the artists used in this 5 part project. "NHI" will be presented and
discussed by Margot Leigh Butler who is an artist, writer, teacher and
activist.

This will be followed by a presentation by Marika Sandrelli and 
Jennifer Fisher of PACE (Prostitution Alternatives Counseling 
Education) about their Journey Women video project and their work
with sex trade workers in the Downtown East Side. PACE provides a broad
range of support services to sex trade workers with a mandate of harm
reduction and the abolishment conditions that lead to prostitution. The two
presentations will frame an overall discussion of the role of spectacle in
art and media, looking at both its possibilities and problematics.

Radical Rhizome looks at the potential for experimental independent media,
and video in particular, to function towards activist ends. The series will
focus on a variety of issues of social justice with constant attention to
the manner in which information is being presented. This will be considered
at various levels: the content, the delivery, the style, the mode of
distribution etc. In essence, Radical Rhizome will discuss how we want to
communicate with one another through alternative media.

What needs to be refined in this age of massive information overload?
Perhaps it is not only what is being said, but also the manner in which it
is being said. How can we develop a media ecology that reflects the
complexity of the issues in our lives? How can we structure media that
challenges the individual to formulate their own opinion? As alternative
media producers are we inadvertently reproducing the modes presented to us
by mainstream media or are we consciously looking for creative means that
reflect the complexity and richness of human experience.

info: Jen Weih
event at videoinstudios.com
604.872.8337

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Jen Weih
Exhibitions and Programming Coordinator
Video In
1965 Main St.
Vancouver BC V5T 3C1
exhibit at telus.net
t. 604.872 8337
f. 604 876 1185
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