Sugar Daddy
Jul 29, 1980
Description:
Western Front presented a screening of Ardele Lister’s video work Sugar Daddy (1980), in which she plays a ghost writer hired to write a woman’s biography. Details revealed in a series of audio recordings finds Lister’s character personally implicated in her subject’s life, leading her to take on the woman’s identity to navigate the tumultuous content.
Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.