Invisible Violence Project Launch and Artist Talk by Liz Park and Marianne Nicolson

Artist talk by Liz Park and Marianne Nicolson. Co-presented by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. 

Artspeak presented Invisible Violence, a publication and discursive project guest-curated by Liz Park. This video includes the project launch as well as a talk by Victoria-based artist Marianne Nicolson.

Invisible Violence brought together the work of four artists—Rebecca Belmore, Ken Gonzales-Day, Francisco-Fernando Granados, and Louise Noguchi—who used photography as a point of reference for histories of violence that inform a contemporary politics of representation.

Designed to incite thoughtful conversations about the representation of violence and its politicization today, this multi-part project consisted of: publication of the artists' work as a sequence of 5"x7" cards; a series of discursive events conceived as points of distribution for the publication; and a web hub that archived reflections on the discussions that take place at each event.

As a set of provocations, the parts collectively evaluated the political conditions of the production, circulation and consumption of violent images.