Stuffed Movie is film-like: Wieland stacks multicoloured plastic sleeves encasing various images and small objects ranging from snapshots and mementos to newspaper clippings about the Vietnam War. The rectangular plastic sleeves are reminiscent of individual frames in a film strip. This artwork is obviously hand-sewn, but Wieland’s crafty sensibility did not necessarily result in objects that resemble traditional handicrafts. It mimics the glossy, translucent packaging that, by the 1960s, was beginning to envelop almost every object offered for sale in the Western world.
Joyce Wieland: Crafting a New Political Art
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Joyce Wieland, Stuffed Movie, 1966
Mixed media, 142.2 x 36.8 cm, Vancouver Art Gallery