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
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)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wieland, Joyce |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian film artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Canada |
DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1998 |
Place of death | Toronto , Canada |