Programming 2021

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 ...

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 ...

Shadowboxing
a public installation by Abdi Osman

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 ...

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 by the area between Skaniatari:o (Lake ...

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 seen with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jupiter in Aries, Moon in Virgo
Rehana Zaman

03 April – 17 July 2021

A primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

little did i know
with Christie Carriere, Hannia Cheng, and jes sachse

26 February – 27 March 2021

an in-gallery and online project

in the current digital landscape, we are all collectively shitting ourselves with the idea of staying relevant now that everything’s online.

little did i know: a conversation; a disruption; a relationship that’s been nourished between Christie Carriere, Hannia ...

Prayers for Dreamy Boys by Fallon Simard
January 5th – 27th, 2021

Prayers for Dreamy Boys is a new series of digital illustrations and animations by Fallon Simard. Fallon interrogates the relationship between state violence and mental health in so far as it is perpetuated on to Indigenous bodies. In Prayer for Dreamy Boys, ...

Moving Ether Way

11 December, 2020 – 30 January, 2021

Camille Rojas
Dallas Fellini
Hiba Ali
sarah koekkoek

Curated by Holly Chang and Karina Iskandarsjah

In the face of deep uncertainty, we are moving either way.

Moving Ether Way presents newly commissioned digitally immersive performance art works by Camille Rojas, Dallas Fellini, Hiba Ali, and sarah ...

RESIDVALS 
Shawn Johnston

08 January – 13 February 2021

RESIDVALS is a multimedia project based on the St. Joseph School for Girls and St. Peter Claver/Garnier High School for Boys located in Spanish, Ontario. The project examines the artist’s relationship to the site through place (the physical past and present location, historical events/occurrence) and memory (the ideas formed by visits to space during ...

La Fable d’OxA 21965

By Anna Eyler and Nicolas Lapointe

06 November 2020 – 04 January 2021

Since the Industrial Revolution, our relationship with the earth has become increasingly mediated by technologies of visualisation, sonification, classification, mapping, and simulation. At the same time, it is the minerals and materials of the earth that have facilitated these technological developments. The earth may therefore ...