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Lorna Boschman (1955) is a Canadian Queer media artist, film maker,[1][2] curator, educator, editor, and camera operator[3] working with themes such as sexual identity, body image, social justice, (dis)ability, cancer, abuse,[3] health, and self-advocacy.[4]

Life

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Boschman was born in Carrot River, Saskatchewan, in 1955.[5][6] In 2005, she graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a BFA in Film & Video.[1] She received her master's degree and PhD from Simon Fraser University in 2007 and 2012, in Interactive Arts and Technology.[1] Boschman worked as an arts administrator at Vancouver's Video In Studios (now called VIVO Media Arts Centre) before continuing on her masters and doctoral studies at Simon Fraser University.[7]

In 1992 and 2007, Boschman directed Drawing the Line (1992), True Inversions (1992), and Before the New Millennium (2007), about Vancouver's Kiss & Tell Collective, a "performance and artist collective whose work is concerned with lesbian sexuality."

Career

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Boschman was featured in Montréal's 29 Festival International Du Film Sur L'Art in 2011, at the Panorama of Quebec and Canadian Video,[1] where two evenings of her retrospective works were showcased and curated by Nicole Gringas.[8] Her work has also been shown internationally, in retrospectives as theatrical programs in Brussels in 2014, exhibitions in Milan that same year,[4][1] as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[8] Her short film Scars (1987) dealt with self-mutilation and cutting by young women.[9] Scars was included in a notable traveling exhibition called Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988. Our Normal Childhood (1988) explored childhood sexual abuse.[10]

From 2012 until 2016, Boschman worked as Project Manager and Faculty Associate for Cancer's Margins, a research study focusing on LGBT2Q persons who have been diagnosed with, and treated for breast and/or gynecological cancers.[7][2] The work explores the experiences these people face, how they can or have access care, how they are communicated information about their health, and the support they receive during treatment.[1] Working alongside Dr. Mary Bryson, Boschman led Cancer's Margins Digital Storytelling Workshops,[2] and also worked as a mentor for patients with metastatic cancer.[1]

Permanent collections

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Boschman's video works Scars (1987) and Our Normal Childhood (1988) are in the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection.[4][11][12] Her work Drawing the Line is included in the permanent collection of the Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir in Paris.[13]

Awards

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Boschman has won several awards for her work, including the NFB Kathleen Shannon Award at Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival, for Inside/OUT! (2000);[14] the Judge's Award, Northwest Film and Video Festival for True Inversions (1992); and during the 2016 Vancouver's Mayor's Arts Awards, Boschman was nominated as an honoree in Film & New Media[1] by a panel of her peers.

Media artworks

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  • Scars (1987)
  • Butch/Femme in Paradise (1988)
  • Our Normal Childhood (1988)
  • Family Secrets (1990)[15]
  • Doing Time (1991)[16]
  • Drawing the Line (1992)[17]
  • True Inversions (1992)[18]
  • Big Fat Slenderella (1993)
  • Poodle Diet (1994)
  • Fat World (1994)
  • Sunnybrook (1995)
  • A Cancer Video (1996)
  • Dr. Lorna's Seven Day Poodle Diet (1998)
  • Boy Girl (1999)
  • From the Inside/OUT (2000)
  • kickstART! A Celebration (2003)
  • Walking Women (2004)
  • this ability (2006)[19]
  • Before the New Millenium (2007)
  • Thanksgiving Dinner (2007)
  • Mother Daughter Bake Off (2014)[8][20]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Lorna Boschman | SFU Alumni Appreciation Project". SFU Alumni Appreciation Project. Archived from the original on 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  2. ^ a b c "British Columbia | Cancer's Margins Project: LGBT2Q Cancer Health and Care Experiences". www.lgbtcancer.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  3. ^ a b "Media Queer – Lorna Boschman". www.mediaqueer.ca. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  4. ^ a b c Commer. "Lorna Boschman, Post-doctoral researcher and Project Co-Ordinator, University of British Columbia Cancer's Margins | Commer". www.wecommer.com. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  5. ^ Thomas Waugh (2006). Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 374–. ISBN 978-0-7735-7680-3.
  6. ^ "Lorna Boschman". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  7. ^ a b "Episode 3: Lorna Boschman | VIVO Media Arts Centre". www.vivomediaarts.com. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  8. ^ a b c "Artist | Vtape". www.vtape.org. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  9. ^ Social Discourse. McGill University, Comparative Literature Program. 1990.
  10. ^ Michael Renov; Erika Suderburg (1996). Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 201–. ISBN 978-0-8166-2330-3.
  11. ^ "Lorna Boschman: Scars". gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  12. ^ "Lorna Boschman: Our Normal Childhood". gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  13. ^ base.centre-simone-de-beauvoir.com/DIAZ-Drawing-the-Line-510-161-0-12.html
  14. ^ "Canada's Golden Sheaf Award Winners 2000" (PDF). yorktonfilm.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  15. ^ THOMAS, KEVIN (6 May 1991). "The Women's Experience" – via LA Times.
  16. ^ Archer, Michael. "Learning-disabled-lesbian-cleaning-lady..." Frieze (18).
  17. ^ Richard Dyer; Julianne Pidduck (2003). Now You See it: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film. Psychology Press. pp. 273–. ISBN 978-0-415-25499-1.
  18. ^ Janine Marchessault; Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions (1995). Mirror machine: video and identity. YYZ Books. ISBN 978-0-920397-16-9.
  19. ^ "CM Magazine: this ability". umanitoba.ca.
  20. ^ "Lorna Boschman". Vimeo. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
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