Isuma: CHANNEL 51: IGLOOLIK - Celebrating 30 Years of Inuit Video Art
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Esker Foundation 444-1011 9 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0H7
CHANNEL 51: IGLOOLIK - Celebrating 30 Years of Inuit Video Art
Curated by asinnajaq
Opening reception: Friday 31 May, 6-10pm, all welcome1 June - 30 August
CHANNEL 51: IGLOOLIK, a project of Isuma in partnership with Vtape, Toronto, is the first large-scale tour of Igloolik Inuit video art from the Isuma and Arnait Women’s Video Collective. It celebrates a young cinematic tradition that has its own distinct voice and worldview, its own language, culture and traditions, history and stories, philosophy of education and knowledge sharing, relationship to land, conception of gender and social structures, relationship to space and time, and vision for the future. This collection highlights the unique power of Inuit filmmaking: an approach that challenges individualistic notions of the “artist,” and centers itself in an ethical obligation to serve Inuit first through thoughtful self-representation.
A project of Isuma in partnership with Vtape, Toronto.