Governor General’s Awards Gala March 2016
April 7, 2016
Receiving the 2016 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, along with the other recipients, in Ottawa in March.
Suzy Lake, visual artist and 2016 Canada Council laureate - a film by Cliff Caines
March 18, 2016Subversive Suzy Lake wins Governor General’s art award
March 18, 2016Suzy Lake was among the first women to use performance and photography to confront gender politics — and her influence on the art scene was immediate and immense.
Now the subversive visual artist has been named one of this year’s winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
She joins guest host Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss her groundbreaking work, why her art isn’t quite biographical, and how identity can be formed through resistance.
“Even though we knew who we weren’t, we weren’t quite sure who we were,” she says.
Listen to the full q interview here
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