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XR as Anti-Gentrifier: Gentrification and Public Art Focus Group

Trinity Square Video & Evergreen Brick Works are looking for community members and artists to participate in a focus group surrounding gentrification and public art. 

Our Researcher-in-Residence, Holly Chang has been investigating development trends and displacement patterns in the neighbourhoods surrounding the Don Valley; St James Town, ...

Visiting Speakers Series: France as a Black Space

Saturday, September 28 at 2pm, 2019

Or Gallery, Vancouver BC

On Saturday, September 28 at 2pm at Artspeak (233 Carrall St, Vancouver, BC) Or Gallery will host a conversation with Françoise Vergès (writer, activist, curator; Paris, France) and Olivier Marboeuf (writer, curator; Paris, France) as part of a series of multi-sited events called Bodies Borders Fields. Vergès and Marboeuf are ...

VITRINE | 道·斷袖 Dao: Duan-Xiu (Passage: The Broken-Sleeve)

By Eric Chengyang

29 August – 01 October

Site-specific installation: HD video on loop, peach scented incense stick, incense ash, digital print mounted on mylar, metal chains, hooks, brass incense holder.

Dao: Duan-Xiu (Passage: The Broken-Sleeve) is an ongoing project by Eric Chengyang. It explores transcendent ideas and themes latent in different ...

DO YOU KARAOKE?: Performance + Closing Party with The Pattycakers

Thursday, 29 August, 6-8 PM

do you ever practice singing?🎤

do you ever feel the need to perform?🎭

do you ever take into consideration the cultural hollowness in the reenactment of idol identities juxtaposed with the opportunities to exercise empathy and sincerity in the performer-audience exchange in physical/digital ...

2019 EDAA Finalists Exhibition

With works by Alyssa Bornn (Winnipeg, MN), Colton Hash (Victoria, BC), Ahreum Lee (Montreal, QC), Claire Scherzinger (Victoria, BC), and Jordyn Stewart (Beamsville, ON)

06 – 28 September, 2019

The 2019 Finalist Exhibition brings together five exceptional works that expand the possibilities of digital art practice, providing a robust national assemblage ...

Summer Jams MVP

Free Screening of Music Video Projects

Saturday, 27 July 2019, 8:00PM

Part of our ongoing music video showcase, Summer Jams MVP features a line up of works by local talent. Come and join us in celebrating Toronto’s musicians and video artists!

Featuring works by:
Len Henry / b-fun’n, Andrew J Paterson & Alan Fox, Ramon Charles & ...

Networked Justice

Featuring works by Shaheer Tarar, Umber Majeed, Sean Sandusky, and The Pattycakers (Adrienne+Keiko)
Curated by Karina Iskandarsjah

02 – 31 August, 2019
Opening reception: Friday, 02 August, 6-8pm

Networked Justice presents Trinity Square Video’s 2019 Themed Commissions, which were produced over summer residencies.

Digital networks make it possible for us to have an effect on distant people and places. From instantaneous messaging, to fundraising and information sharing, we have cultivated new ways to ...

Reckless Reproduction

Endam Nihan

19 July – 20 August

Image: Reckless Reproduction (screenshot), Endam Nihan

Reckless Reproduction is a video installation that is part of Endam Nihan’s ongoing investigation of the communication and mediation latent in forms of feminine identity online. This piece presents a hallucinatory series of images posted online by women featuring ...

Roadkill | GIF 
Lorna Mills
11–14 July 2019
As part of the 2019 Vector Festival

Lorna Mills has actively exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990’s, both in Canada and Internationally. Her practice has included obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive painting, obsessive super 8 film & video, and obsessive on-line animated GIFs incorporated into restrained off-line installation work. Recent exhibitions ...

Mega Sonic Jingle: Maria Hupfield
as part of the exhibition “Everyonce” curated by Mitchell Akiyama
13 – 27 July, 2019
Reception: Friday, July 26 6-8PM
Trinity Square Video

Maria Hupfield will introduce workshop participants to the tin jingle as used on Anishinaabe Womxn’s jingle dresses in order to imagine new, listening bodies informed by pow wow dance, improvised movement and experimental sound. ...

STREET HASSLE
Syrus Marcus Ware and Ultra-red
as part of the exhibition Everyonce curated by Mitchell Akiyama

29 June – 12 July 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 29 6–8PM

“This moment: it is unlike any other moment in time. How can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past ...

Image: News of the World, Shaheer Tarar, 2019.

Trinity Square Video is pleased to announce the five artists selected for our annual themed commission. This residency will culminate in a group exhibition taking place in August, 2019. This year’s open call, titled Networked Justice, asks artists to Continue Reading →

Everyonce
Mitchell Akiyama

14 June – 27 July 2019
Opening Reception: Friday June 14, 6-8PM

With workshops, performances, and commissioned texts by Maria Hupfield, Dont Rhine, Syrus Marcus Ware, Raven Chacon, Lilian Radovac, and Jonathan Sterne.

In the 1970s, Canadian composer, R. Murray Schafer, coined the term “schizophonia” to describe the separation of sounds from their sources. Schafer worried that technological means of ...

Minaret Mix: performance by Kat Estacio
Friday May 17 @ 7PM
Trinity Square Video

In conjunction with the exhibition Manar Moursi: The Loudspeaker and the Tower

The minarets centered in Manar Moursi’s new work “Stairway to Heaven” are the catalysts for the metropolitan development of newly forged communities on the outer, agricultural lands of Cairo. Similar to the call-to-worship recordings that project from the loudspeakers of these minarets, the musical purposes ...

Sound Gathering Workshop with Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters
Sunday June 9, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Bentway 

Please RSVP

On June 9 at 1pm, join The Bentway’s Artists in Residence – Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters – for a Sound Gathering Workshop.

Participants will learn about sound recording in the field, the role that architecture and infrastructure have on acoustics, and will be asked to ...