Call for Collaborators: “This so-called reclaimed land.”
facilitated by Marina Fathalla
We invite artists, researchers, writers, and creatives across disciplines to collaborate in a recorded conversation ...
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Co-presented in partnership with the Digital Justice Lab
Please join us this fall as we showcase the wonderful participants who took part in the Virtual Grounds – a training and research initiative that considers how we navigate the future, protect our virtual selves, and shape digital landscapes. ...
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This moment an endurance to the end forever
Tanya Lukin Linklater
with Sassa Linklater and Tobi Linklater
09 October – 14 November 2020
Co-presented in partnership with imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
This moment an endurance to the end forever is an exhibition shaped in the living room of Tanya Lukin Linklater: an ever-shifting space that has witnessed gatherings of Omaskeko Cree families of North Bay, performances by Indigenous women, and now acts as a shared ...
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18 September – 19 December 2020
College Art Galleries | Kenderdine Art Gallery | University of Saskatchewan
51 Campus Dr (2nd level)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A8
Co-curated by Emily Fitzpatrick and Toleen Touq
Exhibition Essay by Nadia Kurd
Co-presented with the Kenderdine Art Gallery/College Art Galleries at the University of Saskatchewan, SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre), and CONTACT Photography ...
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The Bottom of the Fountain is Painted Turquoise,
By Elizabeth Milton
4th September – 12th October, 2020
Focusing on the carnivalesque nature of Centreville’s manicured gardens and beach fronts, The Bottom of the Fountain is Painted Turquoise uses a performative approach to materiality to queer the representation of the shoreline. Composed of a series of still-life assemblages, the ...
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Scanner
José Andrés Mora
15 August – 05 September 2020
MFA Graduation Exhibition, University of Guelph.
José Andrés Mora works with display methods to affect the connotation of written language. Through sculptural installations, Mora experiments with texts to juxtapose their intimate connotation with the impersonal aesthetics of their display mechanisms.
In Scanner, two strings of words converge and diverge on the walls of the gallery space ...
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2020 EDAA Exhibition
With works by Jawa El Khash, Kanika Gordon, Alison Postma, Camila Salcedo, and Lisa Smolkin
11 September – 3 October 2020
Open by appointment, Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-5pm.
Email [email protected] to book a visit of up to four persons. Exhibition is also viewable online.
The 2020 EDAA Exhibition marks ...
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Themed Commission 2020
After speaking with some people in the community, we have decided to extend the themed commission deadline by two weeks. We understand that these times can be difficult. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions or would like more time to work on your proposals!
Warmly,
Trinity Square Video & Dames Making Games
New Deadline: 14th June 2020
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In conversation: Tiara Roxanne and Ella Schoefer-Wulf
Monday April 20, 12:00PM
Streamed live at www.imagesfestival.com
Co-presented in partnership with Images Festival
Tiara Roxanne will shed light on her research and artistic praxis regarding artificial intelligence (AI) learning systems and Indigenous Studies through dialogue with her friend Ella Schoefer-Wulf. The conversation will focus on the existing colonial structures embedded within AI and the notion ...
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Data Colonialism: Decolonial Gestures of Storytelling
A Performance Lecture by Tiara Roxanne
Saturday April 18, 4:30PM
Streamed live at www.imagesfestival.com
Co-presented in partnership with Images Festival and Squeaky Wheel
Aztecas del norte, mojados, Indigenous peoples, First Nations People, mestizos, Redskins, American Indians, Mexican Indians, Native Americans, Natives, savages, minorities, at risk peoples or asterisks peoples are some names or ...
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In these uncertain times, with most of us social distancing or in quarantine, the works and words of artists are critical for obtaining nuance, perspective, and joy within our daily routine. To continue our commitment to emerging digital artists across Canada while providing audiences with reprieve from the 24-hour news cycle, @eqbank and @trinitysquare are pleased ...
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Friday May 29, 6-7PM
Trinity Square Video
RSVP to [email protected] for Zoom link
As part of “Traversal” Residency Program, artist-in-resident Lorena Salomé will be in conversation with artist soJin Chun.
soJin Chun’s The Flux Cities project looks at the process of gentrification faced by Horto, a bicentennial community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil that is a living museum. soJin has been ...
HOME IS A PLACE THAT VISITS ME
Book Launch + Artist Talk with Hannah Hull
Thursday, March 12, 6-8PM
Toronto Media Arts Centre, 32 Lisgar St.
Co-presented with Workman Arts, as part of BEING SCENE 2020
Join UK-based artist Hannah Hull, one of the contributing artists in the Architecture After the Asylum exhibition, to launch her new publication, Home Is Place That Visits ...
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Case Study004 by Christina Oyawale
06 March – 27 April, 2020
Case Study004 is a photographic installation by Christina Oyawale that focuses on the notions of racial identity, specifically the significance of skin and melanin of the black body. The work follows a self-exploration of the artist’s diagnosis with a rare skin condition, mycosis fungoides, at the age of sixteen. ...
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Lorena Salomé in conversation with Alexandra Gelis & Jorge Lozano
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 6:30-8:30PM
Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond Street West
To launch the inaugural opening of the “Traversal” Residency Program, artist-in-resident Lorena Salomé will be in conversation with media-based artist Alexandra Gelis and filmmaker Jorge Lozano. Salomé, Gelis, and Lozano will reflect on their shared experiences as immigrant artists who continue to ...
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Never See Come See Dinner with Rea McNamara
Thursday, March 5, 6:30-8:30PM
Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond Street West
As part of “Traversal” Residency Program, artist-in-resident Lorena Salomé will be preparing a very special dinner with Rea McNamara.
Spots are limited, so please RSVP to:
[email protected]
In 1988, the first edition of The Naparima Girls’ High School Cookbook was published by its Alumnae Association. Originally ...
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The Pandi Story
Session led by Maria-Saroja Ponnambalam and Rupali Morzaria
Thursday 20 February 2020, 7-9 PM
Trinity Square Video
121-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Co-presented with Workman Arts
An aspiring filmmaker from Chennai, Pandi Kumaraswamy was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after immigrating to Canada in the 1990s to start a new life. After migrating from South India to Canada, he faced ...
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Traversal Residency presents
The Objects That We Carry with Lorena Salomé
26 February – 18 March 2020
For the inaugural opening of the Traversal Residency Program, mixed-media artist Lorena Salomé will continue her research into investigations surrounding involuntary and autonomous human movement and migration. Within our amassed globalized context, people are on the move both internationally and locally – newcomers ...
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PERFORMING LIVES
with works by Bertille Bak, Lisa Jackson, Yoshua Okón, Helen Reed, May Truong
Curated by Zoë Chan
01 May – 06 June 2020
Co-presented with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and Hot Docs
Visit at performinglives.com
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our capacities during this current moment, Trinity Square Video, in consultation with curator Zoë ...
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Into the Red: They are. We are. I am.
Tiara Roxanne
27 March – 25 April 2020
Co-presented with Images Festival
Experience the data visualization project: theyareweareiam.com
They are. We are. I am. is a project that responses to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning systems, focusing specifically on oppressive datafication boosts for Indigenous peoples. Artist and scholar Tiara Roxanne works with data mining, storytelling, and ...