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EMILIA/AMALIA: Holes and how to fill them

2019

HOLES AND HOW TO FILL THEM is a year-long collaborative project between EMILIA-AMALIA (E-A) and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) that takes the hole as its organizing principle and guiding metaphor. Designed as a test-site for feminist research, commissioning, writing and exhibition-making, HOLES AND HOW TO FILL THEM takes up E-A’s ongoing interest in practices of failure, refusal, withdrawal, deliberate omission, and generative stoppages as sites for feminist organizing and conduits for lost intergenerational knowledge.


The hole is the gap left in feminist histories. It is the void left by withdrawn or failed or abandoned projects. It is the blank spaces made by striking workers. It is the vacuum of whiteness as the universal norm. The hole traces both absence and presence. The hole is the grave and the womb. It is the blindness of the unseeing eye, and mouth open wide to take it all in.


In addition to thinking about holes and how to fill them, EMILIA AMALIA is considering:


HOLES AND HOW TO FEEL THEM

WHOLES AND HOW TO FOIL THEM

HOLES AND HOW TO FALL INTO THEM

HOLES AND HOW TO FIT INTO THEM

HOLES AND HOW TO FIND THEM


Combining public lectures and workshops, commissioned performances, curated screenings and publications, the program activates the CFMDC’s collection and institutional space to explore gaps, holes, fissures, failed and abandoned projects, and the undetonated potential of the past.


HOLES AND HOW TO FILL THEM is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts.

TERRITORY & SOLIDARITY: The daily work of CFMDC takes place in Tkaronto (Toronto) which is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. We also acknowledge The Dish with One Spoon treaty between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee that covers the land of what is now called southern Ontario. We work with the knowledge of the importance of recognition of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the four First Nations Principles of OCAP®. As a Media Arts organization we draw your attention to the work of the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC). As part of  anti-colonial solidarity, CFMDC board and staff proudly commits to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Calls to support PACBI and the wider Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) come from Palestinian civil society and are grassroots strategies opposing the colonization of Palestine by directly targeting complicity.

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