The Speaking Subject
Anna Leonowens GalleryJan 31- Feb 4, 2023
Brody Weaver
Works in exhibition:
> For the Record
> Prerequisite
> PrEP: A Future Archive
> Gaetan Gaetan Gaetan
> On Being Looked At
> On Looking Back
In this exhibition, Brody Weaver presents media artworks created over the past four years that document her sustained investigations into gender and sexuality as they intersect with contemporary and historical life. The title of the exhibition, “The Speaking Subject” is drawn from transfeminist theory that centres the voice of the medicalized trans subject. It signals the production of knowledge by the trans subject who has previously been the subject of knowl- edge produced about her. Through her interrogation of historical figures and case studies across sexology, “Canadian” nationalism, queer history, transgender healthcare, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic she highlight instances whereby knowledge production, co-option, and appropriation come to bare on the uneven distribution of life and death. Three video-based works made between 2019 and 2021 are shown with new(er) installations which detail the institutionalisation of community-based knowledge never intended for our consumption in the forms they now exist in.