“Other Rooms, Other Worlds Previously Unimaginable”

Queer Artists’ Cinema and Paracinema in Canada

Attendance is free and open to the greater Concordia community. To RSVP for the Montreal event, please email: info@mediaqueer.ca

March 3, Concordia University, Montreal

16h00: presentations and discussion by Erika Balsom (King’s College London)

and Mark Clintberg (Alberta College of Art + Design)

Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art

1515 Sainte-Catherine Ouest, EV 3.711

17h30-19h00: screening of “I Confess:” First-person shorts from the Canadian queer film archive, curated by Thomas Waugh (Concordia University)

1515 Sainte-Catherine Ouest, EV 1.605

Graduate Student Participant Reporters: Jay Bossé (Concordia University), Anton Cu Unjieng (ACAD), and Mikhel Proulx (Concordia University)

This pair of events at Concordia and ACAD addresses the expansive production of artists’ cinema and paracinema in contemporary Canadian, Quebecois, and Indigenous contemporary art through a series of roundtable conversations, paper presentations, and film screenings. The methodological foci of these conversations will be queer in orientation, as will be many of the case studies. The purpose is to imagine artists’ cinema and paracinema as strategies for world making and creative speculation in queer futurity, identity formation, and activism. By extension, this queering will involve questioning the disciplinary limits and limitations of the term “artists’ cinema.”

All events are free and open to the public.

Funded by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art

and the Alberta College of Art + Design.