Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archives 1973-2001

Description:

This exhibition was based on a 2001 Western Front residency where curator-artists Nicole Gingras, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Richard Fung, and Aiyyana Maracle conducted research in the video archive. Their work was part of a larger initiative to preserve the archive and increase its public accessibility and marked Western Front’s 30th anniversary.

Each curator contributed writing and selected videos for a respective screening program. The programs included "Women at the Front" by Aiyyana Maracle, "Popularity Contest Selections from the Western Front Videotape Archive" by Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke, "Under Scrutiny: Video at the Western Front" by Nicole Gingras, and "Finding Yourself at the Western Front" by Richard Fung. 

These selections were compiled onto a four-disc DVD set which, along with the accompanying texts, became a publication under the same name.

The exhibition toured or was screened in Winnipeg, Toronto, Montréal, Tokyo, London, and Paris. 

A reception and catalogue launch took place on Apr 14.

The project was supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation.