brody weaver


is an artist, writer, and educator living and learning in kjipuktuk, born and raised in Southwestern Ontario.

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brody weaver

is white-settler artist, writer, and educator living and learning in kjipuktuk (colonial name “Halifax, Nova Scotia) born and raised in Southwestern Ontario.

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installation and performance
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writing

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An Archive for Gaby

Brody Weaver and Gaby Weaver
Single channel video
00:04:58
2020





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This is a video about being documented as a child. It is about how early gendered associations creep into our treatment of one another, what we assume is of value, and what we try to hide. 

It is through photographing select aspects of family life and child rearing that parents are able to document their family's relation to social goods. These goods circulate as normative markers of a family's success, of a mother’s industriousness, of a father’s prowess. In this process, queerness is cleansed from early family collections as it exists in opposition to the imagined good life. At this junction, where do we look for queer evidence? Why do we look?

In failing to locate an archive, we accidentally made one. In this process, we collaboratively dug into our family’s informal “archive”, selecting materials from family photo albums and beyond to construct a narrative that reclaims our gender variance.
– Brody Weaver and Gaby Weaver