Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland (born June 30, 1931 in Toronto , Ontario ; † June 27, 1998 there ) was a Canadian avant-garde film director , experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist.

life and work

Barren Ground Caribou , an installation by Joyce Wieland in the Spadina TTC Terminal in Toronto.

Joyce Wieland first studied art at the Central Tech School in Toronto. After a trip to Europe, she started a job as a film animator, where she met her husband and colleague, the Canadian artist Michael Snow .

Joyce Wieland had her first solo exhibition at the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto in 1960, she was one of the first female artists to be represented by a contemporary Canadian commercial gallery.

In 1963, Wieland and Snow moved to New York City and lived there for ten years. After a robbery and attempted rape of Joyce, the two moved back to Toronto.

Joyce Wieland was represented with two films: Reason Over Passion / la raison avant la passion and Sailboat as a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Film Show: New American Cinema department .

Joyce Wieland was awarded the Order of Canada in 1982.

Filmography

(Selection)

• Water Sark (1965)
• Sailboat (1967)
• Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)
• Dripping Water (1969) (with Michael Snow )
• Cat Food (1969)
• Reason Over Passion / la raison avant la passion (1969)
• Solidarity (1973)
• The far shore (1976)
• A and B in Ontario (1984) (with Hollis Frampton )
• Birds at Sunrise (1986)

literature

• Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today. Catalog. Volume 1: Material. Volume 2: List of exhibits. Kassel 1972.
• documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972. Kassel, Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .

Web links

• Materials by and about Joyce Wieland in the documenta archive
• Joyce Wieland in Collections Canada ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Joyce Wieland in the Internet Movie Database (English)