Ursula Biemann, Ximena Cuevas, Philip Hoffman
The OAS Exhibit: Artists’ Responses
June 2–June 6, 2000

Following a number of community inquiries, Artcite and Windsor Artists for Social Justice members A.G. Smith, Susan Gold, Margaret Lawrence and Josie Hazen organized an impromptu exhibition in response to issues surrounding the OAS assembly in Windsor. 

Artcite’s gallery space housed protest art including selections from the Nobel Peace Project (an international mail/fax art show), a mock military tank, larger-than-life soldier cutouts and protest placards which were also used in the anti-OAS rally organized by the Canadian Labour Congress and The Windsor Labour Council on Sunday, June 4, 2000.

A selection of films and videos were shown throughout the duration of this exhibition from Latin America organized by the Media City Programme Director, Jeremy Rigsby. These works included Ursula Biemann (Mexico/Switzerland) Performing the Border; Ximena Cuevas (Mexico) Dormimundo (Sleepworld Vol. 1: Discomfort) and Philip Hoffman (Canada) Somewhere Between Jalostitlan and Encarnacion. Over 550 people from around the continent came through Artcite and viewed this exhibition (including OAS youth and labour activists, several Police units, assorted dignitaries and noted cultural critic and linguist Noam Chomsky, who was interviewed in Artcite’s gallery by CBC Newsworld!).