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Traversal Residency: Margaret Pearce

Traversal Residency: Margaret Pearce

Interference with Margaret Pearce

21 February – 10 March 2023

Closing: Thursday, March 9, 5-7PM

Presented as part of Traversal Residency Series co-presented in partnership with the Public Visualization Lab and Trinity Square Video; funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

During the residency, Margaret Pearce will be working on a map …

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EXHIBITION: Cloud Painter

Cloud Painter

An exhibition by Joshua Vettivelu and Andreas Buchwaldt

13 January – 18 February 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, 13 January 2023, 6:00-8:00PM

Artist Walk-Throughs:Wednesday, February 15, 6-7PMSaturday, February 18, 2-4PM

Cloud Painter presents a future, speculative reality, where society is forced to live within a biodome following centuries of state orchestrated natural resources extraction that left …

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Traversal Residency: Mother Cyborg

Traversal Residency: Mother Cyborg

Senses of Security with Mother Cyborg

December 02 – 17, 2022

Reception: Friday, December 16, 5-7PM

Presented as part of Traversal Residency Series co-presented in partnership with the Public Visualization Lab and Trinity Square Video; funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Senses of Security examines the betrayal of the promise of technology …

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VITRINE: FUTURE LIVING ROOM

Future Living Room by sarah koekkoek

November 23, 2022 – February 15, 2023

Future Living Room is an installation and video performance by sarah koekkoek, an ecology-focused dance artist, choreographer, and trauma informed educator. sarah’s research examines movement as a language that can help cultivate greater understanding and compassion with our relationship to self, others and the earth. Her work explores punctured …

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EXHIBITION: Seeing is Believing

Seeing is Believing

Featuring collective works by Kite and Devin Ronneberg

October 07 – November 12, 2022

Co-presented in partnership with imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

Seeing is Believing is an assemblage of works by Kite and Devin Ronneberg that consider the parallels between nuclear development of the 20th century and the advancements of artificial intelligence in the 21st …

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VITRINE: Proposition 2: Index. 2020-2021

Proposition 2: Index. 2020-2021

by Ivetta Sunyoung Kang

September 7th – November 7th, 2022 (EXTENDED: November 14th, 2022)

I am hesitating to use the word, decolonial, in this short description of my new work, Proposition 2: Index (2020-2021). That being said, the word came and stayed with me throughout the production. It may not be too much ambition to use the …

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EXHIBITION: Focal Points [Emerging Digital Artist Award 2022]

09 September – 01 October 2022

With works by Kasra Goodarznezhad, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Taylor McArthur, Wei Li, and Zebv Diez

Focal Points features the winners of the 2022 Emerging Digital Artist Award. This year’s selected projects explore the complexity of specific narratives, places, and peoples, drawing from a unique vantage point to reveal what might otherwise be taken for granted or hidden …

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Ecologies & Cosmologies [Themed Commission 2022]

A multi-site exhibition across Tkaronto.

5 – 31 August, 2022

Featuring works by Sidi Chen, Jenna Reid + Cassandra Myers, Laura Margaret Ramsey, Shonee, Sarah Holloway, and Maria Simmons

Co-presented by Trinity Square Video, Lakeshore Arts, Whippersnapper Gallery, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, and SpaceMakerII.

Ecologies & Cosmologies presents the 2022 Themed Commissions, which were produced over a …

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EXHIBITION: BLACK_BOX

July 8 – August 13, 2022

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, July 8, 6-8pm

Anique Jordan, Ashley Jane Lewis, Isabel Okoro, KanikaXx, Kim Ninkuru, Meech Boakye, Oreka James, Zoe Osborne

Curated by Roya DelSol

BLACK_BOX is a hybrid physical / virtual reality exhibition and speculative project that considers archives, art spaces and art making as a means of knowledge transfer and …

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Traversal Residency: Kelly Walters

With a Cast of Colored Stars with Kelly Walters

01 – 17 June 2022

Presented as part of Traversal Residency Series co-presented in partnership with the Public Visualization Lab and Trinity Square Video; funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

We are so excited to welcome Kelly Walters as our next Traversal artist-in-resident program titled “With a Cast of …

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The Falling Sky

Claudia Andujar, Gisela Motta & Leandro Lima

Curated by Noor Alé and Claudia Mattos (AXIS Collective)

01 April – 28 May 2022

Opening reception Friday, April 01 2022, 6-8PM

Co-presented in partnership with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

Leandro Lima and Gisela Motta adapt a black-and-white photograph of a burned Yanomami maloca (a lodging used by Amazonian peoples) into YANO-A, …

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SCREENING: GOING WHERE WE ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO BUT IS OH SO GOOD…

Trinity Square Video Celebrates 50 Years and We Want You to Celebrate This Milestone With Us.

You are cordially invited to the 1st screening ofTrinity Square Video’s 50th Anniversary Screening SeriesGOING WHERE WE ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO BUT IS OH SO GOOD…with Videos from our LIFETIME MEMBERS• Mary J. Daniel,• Gunilla Josephson,• Michael Keshane,• Roy Mitchell,• Michael Morrow,• Louise Noguchi,• Paulette Phillips,• Andrew …

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VITRINE: A place to put things

A place to put things

By Aidan Cowling

30 November 2021 – 23 January 2022

A place to put things is an installation of green screen props that are used to situate archival materials related to sexual health education. The props are painted green in order to experiment with footage from online public archives. By layering multiple archival video streams, the …

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TRAVERSAL RESIDENCY: Peter Morin and Ayumi Goto

The Crow and the Salmon Live Everywhere

A multi-layered and immersive experience by Ayumi Goto, Peter Morin, Parmela Attariwala, Immony Men, Patricio Davila, Justine Woods, José Andrés Mora, Emily Fitzpatrick, Janell Morin, and Kyoko Goto.

November 23 – December 11, 2021

Tuesday – Saturday 12-5PM (To view the exhibition, please contact emily@trinitysquarevideo.com)Proof of vaccine required

Opening Reception and Performance:Friday, November …

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EXHIBITION: I know about hidden things

I know about hidden things by Juliane Forondacurated by Letticia Cosbert Miller

with written contributions by Danica Evering, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Karina Griffith, and Ronald Rose-Antoinette

07 January – 19 February 2022

I know about hidden things is a collaborative project which foregrounds artist Juliane Foronda’s ongoing research concerning feminist hospitality, radical care, and traditions of gathering, and is framed by writer/curator Letticia Cosbert …

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PERFORMANCE: Music for 13 Paths

Music for 13 Paths by Raven Chacon16 October 2021, 1–3PM

Presented in partnership with Gallery TPW and imagineNATIVEMusic for 13 Paths by Raven Chacon, which is part of The Parkette Projects, curated by Shani K Parsons

The performance will begin at Gallery TPW (170 St.Helens Ave), with a pause in Paul Garfinkel Park (1071 Queen St W), and will conclude at Trinity Square Video (401 …

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EXHIBITION: STTLMNT IS NOT HERE

STTLMNT IS NOT HERE

featuring works by Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara/Lakota), Raven Chacon (Dine’), Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Tania Willard (Secwépemc), and Dayna Danger (Métis/Saulteaux/Polish)

October 8, 2021 – November 13, 2021

Produced in collaboration with STTLMNT and imagineNATIVE; with curatorial support by STTLMNT Producer Ginger Dunnill and concept artist Cannupa Hanska Luger

STTLMNT IS NOT HERE reasserts the …

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VITRINE: Who Put These Pines Here?

Who Put These Pines Here?

By Kaya Joan

September 15 – November 25, 2021

This project is available both in person at 401 Richmond st.west and online on the Virtual Vitrine platform.

Who Put These Pines Here? is a digital zine that maps intersections of land, futurity and healing through multiple modes of documentation. Joan’s practice is currently heavily informed …

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ONLINE EXHIBITION: Archival Affections (Themed Commission 2021)

Archival Affections [Themed Commission 2021]

August 27 – November 25, 2021

Presented by Trinity Square Video and supported by the EQ Bank

Featuring works by Vanessa Godden, Monique Todd, Lana Lovell, Yuula Benivolski, Camila Salcedo, Katayoun Jalilipour

Curated by Karina Iskandarsjah

Archival Affections presents the 2021 Themed Commissions, which were produced over a summer residency. This year’s theme invites …

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VIRTUAL VITRINE: A Pursuit of Unrelinquished Joy

A Pursuit of Unrelinquished Joy

By Natalie King

August 1 – September 14, 2021View on the Virtual Vitrine (link release on Sunday!)

In this time-lapse video piece, Natalie King spends time in their Tkaronto studio creating works for upcoming projects. The paintings in this work are to address time/space/joy/absence and presence; a proactive measure to take up space and to be …

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