VISUAL ART FORUMS | K8 Hardy

Lecture Theatre, Room 301, South Building

Join us for a screening of K8 Hardy’s feature film Outfitumentary, 2016, (82 mins) followed by a discussion with the artist.

“In 2001, I set out on the structuralist journey that has become my first feature film, Outfitumentary. I named the project at the outset, and considered it a document for posterity, an important record of the dress codes of a radical lesbian underground. The formal rules I imposed were simple: to roll my video camera and capture a shot of myself from head to toe with a turn to provide front and back. Ultimately, I played fast and loose with my own rules, but stayed true to my original intentions” (© K8 Hardy, NY, 2016).

K8 Hardy (b. 1977, Fort Worth, Texas) is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. Her performances, photographs, self-distributed zines, videos (including music videos for Le Tigre, Lesbians on Ecstasy and Men) and films have been exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art/Whitney Biennial 2012; MoMA PS1, NY; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas; The Tate Modern, London; Reena Spaulings Fine Art, NYC; Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien in Graz, Austria. K8 Hardy studied at Smith College, the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Outfitumentary is her first feature film.

This event is free and open to the public.

Visual Art Forums are presented by theAudain Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice. This event is presented in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver, The Cinematheque,Cineworks and The Queer Arts Festival.