Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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Bruce Eves is a 2018 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Saman Malik
Presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."
For more information, visit: ggavma.canadacouncil.ca
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Transcript:
“People seem to consider that what I do is provocative. I don't see where the provocation is. Only once or twice have I ever consciously done things that were intended to shock but there was a point to it.
I don’t think what I do is shocking I don't think what I do is provocative. I think what I do is honest.
My name is Bruce Eves and I am a photo based artist and began my career in the late 1970s as a performance artist and a curator and an archivist.
The work that I'm doing now really is an intersection between masculinity and aging and bias and history.
And it’s become more and more and more personal as time has gone on.
Since then, it is the largest archival collection in North America of gay material.
I came back with a house full of furniture a large dog and a man in tow.
We got married on our 25th anniversary. And he was dead 6 months later from cancer.
Since then my work has taken a very personal turn.
I think it is in the artist's interest to stick their neck out because no one else is going to be. We're supposed to be the ones that tell the uncomfortable truths you know and if we can’t tell the uncomfortable truth about ourselves or about the things we see around us no one else is going to.”
Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada.
Bruce Eves is a 2018 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Saman Malik
Presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."
For more information, visit: ggavma.canadacouncil.ca
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Transcript:
“People seem to consider that what I do is provocative. I don't see where the provocation is. Only once or twice have I ever consciously done things that were intended to shock but there was a point to it.
I don’t think what I do is shocking I don't think what I do is provocative. I think what I do is honest.
My name is Bruce Eves and I am a photo based artist and began my career in the late 1970s as a performance artist and a curator and an archivist.
The work that I'm doing now really is an intersection between masculinity and aging and bias and history.
And it’s become more and more and more personal as time has gone on.
Since then, it is the largest archival collection in North America of gay material.
I came back with a house full of furniture a large dog and a man in tow.
We got married on our 25th anniversary. And he was dead 6 months later from cancer.
Since then my work has taken a very personal turn.
I think it is in the artist's interest to stick their neck out because no one else is going to be. We're supposed to be the ones that tell the uncomfortable truths you know and if we can’t tell the uncomfortable truth about ourselves or about the things we see around us no one else is going to.”
