Winnipeg Babysitter

An archival curatorial and performance project Daniel Barrows Winnipeg Babysitter reveals the hidden history of independently produced television and subversive cable access from Manitobas capital Barrow presents a magiclantern commentary tracing the history of public access television in Manitoba and describing the various and outrageous biographies of its performers and producers and in doing so he provides a window lit by the glow of an overhead projector onto the history of a medium revealed as an important platform whose influence continues to resonate in the practices of Winnipeg artists