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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Friday May 29, 6-7PM
Trinity Square Video

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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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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:
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In 1988, the first edition of The Naparima Girls’ High School Cookbook was published by its Alumnae Association. Originally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cinematic Archive of Black Madness

Session led by ariella tai
Tuesday 18 February 2020, 6-8 PM

Trinity Square Video
121-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Co-presented with Vtape

James Baldwin writes that, “to be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.” Locating rage, incurable anger and Black protest on the axis of madness, we will work from the ...

Lake Ontario Water Survey by James Hunter

01 February – 02 March

Lake Ontario Water Survey follows two scientists through their workday in the Toronto of 2050. It is the job of these two scientists to retrieve biological samples from Toronto’s shoreline for further testing at their lab. Testing will indicate what effects the climate crisis is wreaking on Toronto’s ecosystem. ...

Broken Machine Feminism with Sarah Sharma

Tuesday, February 11, 2020: 6-8PM
CSI Regent Park Lounge

This workshop will begin with a lecture on the topic of feminist/critical race approaches to technology. Sharma will introduce participants to the term “Broken Machine Feminism.” We will discuss how reframing and re-thinking contemporary lived gendered/raced/classed forms of inequity as having a technological politics can generate new potentials for activism/artistic practice/daily life. We will re-think such things as Continue Reading →

The Visual Language of Psychiatry

Workshop led by Sajdeep Soomal
Saturday 1 February 2020, 1-4pm

Trinity Square Video
121-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Co-presented with Workman Arts

As a part of “Architecture after the Asylum”, we are organizing a workshop that explores the visual language of psychiatry. During the session, we will consider the ways that psychiatry has imagined, looked at, visualized and rendered ...