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    Zuma

    • 2012
    • 00h 12m 26s
    • Sharon Alward
    • Rent $200
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    Synopsis

    A performance ritual of grief, reconciliation and healing, Zuma explores the social construction of shadow mothers. Zuma is both a physical place and a metaphor for ambiguous loss. Witnessed and lovingly documented by Gwen Armstrong.

    Categories

    • Documentary,
    • Feminism,
    • History,
    • Performance,
    • Short,
    • Works by Women

    Shooting Format

    • HD

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Voice-Over,
    • Colour,
    • Sound,
    • Stereo

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Manitoba

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • AppleProRes,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Artist: Sharon Alward

    Provided By

    • Video Pool Media Arts Centre

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    St. John the Baptist

    • 1999
    • Sharon Alward

    St. John the Baptist, Performance/ Installation with video- 4 monitors and video projection "One may not be capable of loving, except for loving someone who loves." –Baudrillard.

    St. John the Baptist

    Mutterwitz

    • 1992
    • Sharon Alward

    Mutterwitz is a symbolic drama, exploring Kant’s notion of judgement and the representation of a relationship between thinking and judging. The layering of images, and the competing presence of spectacle, create a theater of questioning and debate.

    Mutterwitz

    Totentanz (Dance of Death)

    • 1991
    • Sharon Alward

    Commissioned by the Plug In Gallery to do a Performance/ Installation for ART OVER AIDS in November 1990, Alward poured 5 gallons of blood and semen on the floor of the gallery during a private ritual of mourning, and spent the next several hours cleaning it up.

    Totentanz (Dance of Death)

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