Following the exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and the edited volume “Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image”, this talk will explore the conceptualization and realization of the project “No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image,” an exhibition and cinema programme that took place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in summer 2022, co-curated by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg. At a time when feminism is enjoying a mainstream resurgence but must be reclaimed from a neoliberal emphasis on individual success, and when the hybridization of documentary and artists’ film occupies a vital place in the landscape of contemporary practices, No Master Territories made a strategic return to the past. Concentrating primarily on the period of the 1970s to 1990s, a time when women’s liberation movements took hold internationally, it staged an expansive encounter with over 100 works of nonfiction film and video by 89 artists and collectives across the spaces of the cinema and the gallery.
WHEN: March 2 2023 3:00-5:00PM
WHERE: Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222 Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
SPEAKER: Erika Balsom
A selection of 19 films from “No Master Territories” will screen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox between March 3 – 26. More info here.