A major figure in Canadian contemporary art, Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) is a feminist artist whose work has involved a wide range of materials and media - drawing, painting, installation, film. Internationally recognized for her contribution to the development of experimental cinema, she created a powerful and engaged art form that remains influential today. It is this political commitment of Wieland's that this program highlights by bringing together video works whose singular sensitivity reveals, in its folds, an irony imbued with a symbolism filled with biting metaphors. Clearly, Wieland is a precursor of these works, stating that it is often in the absurd — in an inexhaustible flux — and the absence — in what is withdrawn from the reality given to see — that artists attest best of their times.