ReOrientations: A Retrospective on the Works of Richard Fung - My Mother's Place/ Sea in the Blood / Islands
Friday, October 25th, 2013
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 25, 2013 | 7:30PM - 9:00PM | External Event, Innis Town Hall University of Toronto 2 Sussex Avenue |
Description
Friday, October 25, 7:30-9:00 PM, Innis Town Hall
Screenings: My Mother’s Place, Sea in the Blood, Islands
The Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies at the Asian Institute and its co-sponsors are thrilled to present a retrospective on the work of Richard Fung, the renowned Toronto-based video artist, writer, cultural theorist, activist, and educator. Fung’s videos have been screened and archived throughout the world and he has been widely recognized with awards such as the Bell Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art. In addition to his artistic work and writing, Fung teaches at OCAD University. Beginning in 1985 with Orientations – his pioneering video on queer sexuality and its intersections with race and class – Fung’s creative and often highly experimental works have questioned normative understandings of history and memory, temporality, sexuality, identity, colonialism, empires, racism, classism, labour, authenticity, diasporic communities, the body, illness, trauma, food, writing, and so much more. Tracing diasporic movements and communities as well as the complex and constantly changing identities of Asians and others in places across the globe – most especially North America and the Caribbean – Fung’s works inspire us to “reorient” ourselves toward both the future and the past.
View the event program here and the complete schedule here. Please register for each portion of the program you wish to attend.
REORIENTATIONS: A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE WORKS OF RICHARD FUNG
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
REGISTER HERE FOR 4:00-6:30 PROGRAM
- SCREENINGS: Orientations (1985, 56 Min.) and School Fag (1998, 17 Min.)
- IN CONVERSATION WITH Richard Fung. Chair: Nayan B. Shah (Professor and Chair of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California)
REGISTER ABOVE FOR 7:30-8:50 PROGRAM
- SCREENINGS: My Mother’s Place (1990, 49 Min.), Sea in the Blood (2000, 49 Min.), and Islands (2002, 9 Min.)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
REGISTER HERE FOR 2:15-5:30 PROGRAM
- SCREENINGS: Dirty Laundry (1996, 30 Min.) and Rex vs. Singh (2008, 30 Min.)
- ROUNDTABLE: Chair: Rinaldo Walcott (Associate Professor, Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto). Panelists: Kass Banning (Lecturer, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto), Roland Sintos Coloma (Associate Professor of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, OISE, University of Toronto), Ramabai Espinet (Sessional Lecturer of Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto; Writer and Critic), Lisa Lowe (Profesor of English and American Studies, Tufts University), Monika Kin Gagnon (Professor and Interim Chair of Communications Studies, Concordia University)
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE FOR 7:00-9:00 PROGRAM
- SCREENING: Dal Puri Diaspora (2012, 80 Min.)
- Q&A WITH DIRECTOR
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