Light Year | A Festival of Photographies
30 September - 28 October 1995
A month long photography festival including off site exhibitions, performances, music, screenings, literary readings, presentations. “Light Year conceived as a means, to highlight and explore the impact of the photographic image as it functions in our everyday lives.”
Exhibitions:
Travel Journals : Richard Baillargeon, Robert Bourdeau, Geoffrey James and Ian Paterson, essay by Andrea Philip
A Documentary Tradition? What Tradition? What Documentary? | Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, Michel Campeau, Alain Chagnon, Serge Clement, Charles Gagnon, Pierre Gaudard, Clara Gutsche, Brian Merret, David Miller, Michel Saint-Jean and Gabor Szilasi essay by: Serge Allaire
Projections in the Home/Extensions Quotidiennes | Pierre Gauvin essay “Holy Kitsch! - La petite sauvagesse by: Neil MacINNIS
Anonymous Gay and Lesbian Portraits | Larry Glawson essay “A Queer Space Between Fiction and Politics” by Denis Lessard
Family Stories | Ernie Kroeger essay “The Meanders of Time: On Ernie Kroeger’s Works by Richard Baillargeon
Images of Decay | Gordon Laird and Andrew Olcott essay “Psychic Images: thoughts on time and photography” by Sylvain Campeau
(un)veilings | Devora Neumark essay “Monumental Amnesia: Devora Neumark’s recent installations by Anna Carlevaris
The Yellow Pages | Ho Tam essay “Dictionaries, Masks and Broken Mirrors: Notes on Ho Tam’s THE YELLOW PAGES by Larissa Lai
Intimate Reflections | Alexa Wright essay “Metonym: The Stranger Within” by Lisa Gabrielle Mark
Still Rot | Jeannette Angel essay “Still Rot: A Personal Response” by: Val Klassen
Snare | Diana Thorneycroft essay “Marking the Invisible: the performance that is no longer” by Meeka Walsh
Symposium:
6-8 October 1995
Featured Speakers | Steven Kurtz and Karen Knorr
Panelists | Dale Amundson, Sylvain Campeau, Sara Diamond, Rosalie Favell, Larry Glawson, Leslie Korrick, Louis Ogemah, Alex Poruchnyk, Sheila Spence and Nell Tenhaff
Performances | Jeannette Angel and Diana Thorneycroft