re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 1: Off the Record, 54' ―

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Outdoor Screening
Thursday 07 August 2025 · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard; 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

“Thank you for your solidarity.” An Indonesian garment worker directly addresses the cinema audience, at once performing the homogenizing syntax of English while casting it into meaninglessness. This program opens DIFFUSION with a series of works that trouble the notion of bearing witness. Moving across forms of testimony––archival, performance, interview––the cinema is reconfigured here as a space for anger, protest, and close listening. As the agency of using one’s own words to address structures of power is repeatedly thrown into question, the program ends beyond language and voice – in an optical trance, with a single eye staring back at us.

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Once You've Shot the Gun You Can't Stop the Bullet

Directed by Jayce Salloum
Lebanon/Palestine/USA/Canada · 1988 · 8'00

This work was shot on location in many places including: Beirut, Jerusalem, Jouni, Kelowna, Las Vegas, Mesa, New York City, Portland, San Diego, Tijuana and Vancouver. From accumulated live footage recorded over a period of three years, the piece weaves itself in and out of experiences of differentiation and distance, closeness, and questions of discourse and construction in the viewing and constitution of the subjects. -JS

Jayce Salloum is an artist and curator who works across video, installation, photography, drawing, performance, and writing. A grandson of Syrian or Lebanese immigrants, he was born on Syilx (Okanagan) territory, and is currently based on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷey̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səíl̓wətaʔł Nations (Vancouver, Canada). His projects are rooted in an intimate engagement with place, going only where he is invited or where there is an intrinsic affinity. Salloum is represented by Mónica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver; and MKG127, Toronto. [↗]