Music for 13 Paths by Raven Chacon
16 October 2021, 1–3PM
Presented in partnership with Gallery TPW and imagineNATIVE
Music 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 ...
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Trinity Square Video and imagineNATIVE presents
Bead N’ Bitch with Dayna Danger
Open beading gathering
Friday, October 22, 3-7 PM
Trinity Square Video
401 Richmond Street West, Suite #121
Bead N’ Bitch is an in-person gathering hosted by artist Dayna Danger.
This event will bring folks together to use our hands and mouths to bitch about issues and practices with the community ...
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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 presence and perspectives of ...
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curated by Ellyn Walker
15 September – 02 November 2021, 6PM – 12 AM Daily
The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives
34 Isabella Street, Toronto
Co-presented in partnership with Trinity Square Video and The ArQuives
shadowboxing {verb} /ˈSHadōˌbäksiNG/
– making a show of tackling a problem or opponent while avoiding any direct engagement
– sparring an imaginary opponent as a ...
Who Put These Pines Here?
By Kaya Joan
September 15 – October 31, 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 by the area between Skaniatari:o (Lake Ontario), ...
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Trinity Square Video and Vtape presents the 2021 Video Fever Listening Party!
September 18th 7PM EST
LIVE EVENT SCREENED ONLINE at Vtape HERE
2021 Video Fever Showcase includes works by James P. Hoban, Kalina Nedelcheva, Christina Oyawale, Weibin Wang, Gustav Bulzgis, Evgenia Mikhaylova, Sadaf Khajeh, Jean-Pierre Marchant, Racquel Rowe, Liam Mullen, Hanna Petersm Noah Hanyue Qin.
Video Fever is an annual showcase of cutting-edge video works produced by ...
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CALL FOR RESEARCHERS
Virtual Grounds: Platforms
Co-presented with the Digital Justice Lab and Trinity Square Video
DEADLINE: September 17, 2021
We’re excited to announce the second year of Virtual Grounds program, a series dedicated to feminist perspectives on digital sustainability and survival. Virtual Grounds: Platforms is a 3-part training and research initiative that considers how we navigate the future, protect our virtual selves, and shape digital ...
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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 projects that critically look at one’s relationship to archives; ...
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2021 EDAA Exhibition
With works by Aljumaine Gayle, Erin Konsmo, Katelyn Hawley, Olivia Dreisinger, and Shonee
10 September – 2 October 2021
Exhibition on view at Trinity Square Video as well as online HERE
The 2021 EDAA Exhibition marks the seventh edition of the Emerging Digital Artists Award (EDAA) with five exceptional works that expand the limits of digital art practice.
The Emerging Digital Artists Award is Canada’s ...
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Artist-Run Blockchain 101 Presentation + Community Feedback Session
July 28th, 2021, Wednesday 5PM
To get the zoom link, contact [email protected]
Since 2020, Trinity Square Video has been working on a research project called “Artist-Run Blockchain”. We wanted to create an artist-run blockchain that would answer the specific needs of digital media artists. The vision for the artist-run blockchain is that at every interaction ...
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NFTs are shaking up the art market, and has opened up a new world of possibilities and opportunity for digital artists. However, the complicated mechanisms and erratic nature of cryptocurrency/blockchain development can be intimidating.
“The Other NFT Report” by Camille Rojas is a short and accessible guide to understanding the risks and rewards of engaging with this new technology. Rojas shares with us her experience entering and navigating different NFT platforms, as well as the sociopolitical and ...
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Ye gaane ka mood kya hai?/ What is the mood of this song?
with Rehana Zaman and Sharlene Bamboat
Sunday, June 27
2PM EST / 7PM GMT
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A love letter as call and response between artists Rehana Zaman and Sharlene Bamboat, where they discuss Pakistani disco, love and solidarity, narration, low frequencies and mutability in their work.
In conjunction with Jupiter in ...
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Themed Commission Residency 2021: Archival Affections
Image by Yuula Benivolski
Trinity Square Video is pleased to announce the six artists selected for our annual themed commission. This residency will culminate in a group exhibition taking place in August, 2021. This year’s open call, titled Archival Affections invites project proposals that critically look at one’s ...
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“PERSONAL ARCHAEOLOGY” Auto-Iconography in Self Mythologizing Art Practices
A free online workshop in conjunction with the Virtual Vitrine by James Knott
Saturday, 19th June, 2-3:30PM
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In what ways can artists imbue objects with personal meanings so as to create mythologies about their own personal histories? James Knott performs an autopsy over their performance practice to excavate the recurring objects and motifs they employ ...
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An Effigy To The Girl of Our Dreams
By James Knott
May 21 – June 30, 2021
View on the Virtual Vitrine
An exploration of the aesthetic and philosophical through-lines between the Cabaret theatre and 70s Punk subcultures.
Split into three movements, we are invited to bear witness to a cautionary tale. We covet the ...
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ONLINE PUBLICATION LAUNCH: Writing the Moving Image
with contributions by Belinda Kwan, Kristin Li, Janina Malapitan, Peter Rahul, Harrison Wade, Theresa Wang, Jonathan Wright, Fan Wu
Tuesday, May 25, 7:00 – 8:30 PM via Zoom Meeting
Check out Writing the Moving Image here!
Writing the Moving Image was a workshop hosted by Fan Wu at Trinity Square Video in 2018, where participants delved into various configurations of ...
EROTICA! by Zarina Muhammad was commissioned in conjunction with the exhibition Jupiter in Aries, Moon in Virgo by Rehana Zaman
Design by Philip Leonard Ocampo
Copy Editing by Daniella Sanader
ZARINA MUHAMMAD (b.1994, London) is a writer and an art critic @ the white pube (thewhitepube.com // @thewhitepube). cancer sun/aries moon/sagittarius ascendant. ‘intellectual charlatan’, ‘sociopathic pseudo-critic’, leading ...
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A conversation with Chandra Frank and Rehana Zaman
Tuesday, April 13
2PM EST / 7PM GMT
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On 13th April Chandra Frank and Rehana Zaman will be in-conversation reflecting on the feelings, thoughts and ideas emerging from the exhibition Jupiter in Aries, Moon in Virgo. They will be discussing creative praxis through fragments related to land, intimacy and kinship ...
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What You Allow Is What Will Continue by Gloria C Swain
March 30 – June 30, 2021
What You Allow Is What Will Continue sheds light on Black women’s invisible struggle with police brutality.
Police are not held accountable, Black women do not receive the same public outcry as Black men and there is a ...
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03 April – 17 July 2021
A primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
There is a familiar point of view when sitting in the passenger seat of a car or at the kitchen table absorbed in close dialogue with others. Whether it’s the passing scenery or the preparation of food that flickers in ...