Hope Peterson

A fantasy of freedom, a stroll in the park gives rise to an opening up of unstable sexual codes, shifting identities and the empowering game of come and go.

A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke follows a big boned butch into skirmishes, drag, and the arms of a beautiful recruit. The public and private lives of this "strange animal" are explored with the reverence and glee found in the educational exposés like Reefer Madness and bad-boy films like Rebel without a Cause. However, because this fictionalized lesbian history is a first-person narrative, it is filled with all the joy, pain, and ambivalence each of us experiences while negotiating a marginalized identity.

Threshold Economics is surveillance video by the occupant subject. Tinged with a faint influence of radio noir, this cinematic immersion offers a complex of security peepholes, passing shadows, disembodied voices, the music of steam radiators. Installation at SAW Gallery, Ottawa in group show Take Me To Your Leader/Lead Me To Your Taker, May-July 2011; Single-channel exhibition in group show My Winnipeg, la Maison Rouge, Paris, June-August 2011.

A woman’s agonizing trip on a crowded city bus results in a stain on her dress that she can’t wash away. Is the stain real, or imaginary? Hope Peterson asks, “Who is responsible for the anger that remains after an everyday sexual assault?”

Reeling in the filthy lanes of Winnipeg, a malfunctioning but still-observant camera conducts a post-traumatic investigation.

A fantasy of freedom, a stroll in the park gives rise to an opening up of unstable sexual codes, shifting identities and the empowering game of come and go.

A fantasy of freedom, a stroll in the park gives rise to an opening up of unstable sexual codes, shifting identities and the empowering game of come and go.

Threshold Economics is surveillance video by the occupant subject. Tinged with a faint influence of radio noir, this cinematic immersion offers a complex of security peepholes, passing shadows, disembodied voices, the music of steam radiators. Installation at SAW Gallery, Ottawa in group show Take Me To Your Leader/Lead Me To Your Taker, May-July 2011; Single-channel exhibition in group show My Winnipeg, la Maison Rouge, Paris, June-August 2011.

A woman’s agonizing trip on a crowded city bus results in a stain on her dress that she can’t wash away. Is the stain real, or imaginary? Hope Peterson asks, “Who is responsible for the anger that remains after an everyday sexual assault?”

Reeling in the filthy lanes of Winnipeg, a malfunctioning but still-observant camera conducts a post-traumatic investigation.