PAST EXHIBITION
FIERCE: Women’s Hot-Blooded Film/Video
The McMaster Museum of Art is proud to present Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Film/Video, a group exhibition of video and experimental film works by Maureen Bradley, Dana Claxton, Allyson Mitchell, and b. h. Yael: women at the forefront of Canadian-based, media production and installation.
Multiple themes thread through the exhibition’s two installations and fifteen moving image works, which were produced between 1994 and 2008. Janice Hladki, former multi-disciplinary artist (e.g., The Clichettes), exhibition curator and Associate Professor in Theatre & Film Studies at McMaster University’s School of the Arts, writes, “In their interrogation and theorization of social and cultural relations of power, territories of land and body, and spectator responsibility, these works may be understood as hot-headed: intellectually tempestuous and thoughtfully simmering.”
This exhibition addresses how Canadian-based women artists are contributing to contemporary moving image culture, particularly in terms of producing the thinking image. Focusing on artists with histories and bases in different Canadian locations, Fierce provides a rich account of video art and experimental film in the Canadian context and contributes to the impact of Canadian-based work within transnational spheres. Mobilizing narrative, documentary, autobiographical, video essay, video poem, animation, and experimental forms, the artists explore urgent concerns: multiple embodiments and identities, public life and social justice, the global and the local, history and memory, the environment and species diversity, and war and peace.
Selected Reviews
Fiery female filmmakers showcased at ‘Fierce’ exhibit by Peter Goddard – The Toronto Star, January 28, 2010
Presented by: McMaster University's Women's Studies and Indigenous Studies Programs and the McMaster Museum of Art
January 28, 2010 – March 27, 2010
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SUBMISSIONS & ASSISTANCE
SUBMISSIONS:
The McMaster Museum of Art is presently not accepting artists’ submissions for exhibitions at this time of leadership change at the museum. Our Interim Director will be undertaking a review of the museum’s forward exhibition schedule, as well as our policies and procedures, in the coming months. Our present focus is the ongoing maintenance of our permanent collection and storage needs for future collection activities.
The museum remains committed to our collecting priority in the continued support of early career, mid-career and established Indigenous artists, artists of the Black diaspora and racialized artists through purchases and commissions. Donations will be welcomed and reviewed at a future date which will be posted on our website.
ASSISTANCE:
The McMaster Museum of Art is a third party recommender for Ontario Arts Council (OAC) Exhibition Assistance Grants.
The museum is currently accepting applications. Our next program deadline is: December 16, 2024.
Priorities:
Artists who demonstrate an interest and consideration of art as a medium for social change and action.
Please follow the guidelines established by the Ontario Arts Council, apply directly through their website, and submit the following with your applications:
Brief artist statement
Confirmation letter from the gallery/museum/venue
Budget
CV
Digital images of work
