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Artist talk: Hiba Ali (Option + Shift)
Hiba Ali is a digital artist, educator, scholar, DJ, experimental music producer and curator based across Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, and Toronto, ON. Their performances and videos concern surveillance, womxn/ womyn of colour, and labour.
Annual General Meeting 2020
Connect with other members, meet your Board, learn about how we've responded to COVID-19, and learn about what's next for Artcite!
Artist talk: Xuan Ye (Option+Shift)
Xuan Ye 叶轩 explores the poetic forces of media, coupling with non-human agencies to experiment with world-building and system-modelling in the speculative space of sensorium that is beyond our consciousness.
Artist talk: Lorna Mills (Option+Shift)
Lorna Mills's practice includes obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive painting, obsessive super 8 film and video, and obsessive on-line animated GIFs incorporated into restrained off-line installation work.
Artist talk: Shaheer Zazai (Option+Shift)
Shaheer Zazai is a Toronto based Afghan-Canadian artist with a current studio practice both in painting and digital media. His practice focuses on exploring and attempting to investigate the development of cultural identity in the present geopolitical climate and diaspora.
Artist talk: Katie Kotler (Option+Shift)
Katie Kotler is a Toronto-based artist exploring how the physicality of animation can be translated into installation art, print and music.
SUBMIT! Digital Doin’ the Louvre 2020
Artcite annual FUN(d)raiser and art sale is going virtual for 2020!
Artist-in-Residence: Matthew Bolton
experimenting with aleatoric processes, Bolton formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works.
Artist-in-Residence: Ostoro Petahtegoose
Ostoro’s work mainly deals with themes of kinship, community, identity and our surrounding natural and sociopolitical environments.
Ronnie Clarke: Sunwalk
'SUNWALK' is a livestream group performance piece where participants are invited to digitally gather and march with one another online. This piece explores progress and organization through isolation.
Mikiki: .5 | HOTSPOT
Making use of hookup apps and dating websites, chatting with people looking for intimacy online; Mikiki will be engaging queer men about hooking up during the pandemic while negotiating comfort, safety, desire, and harm reduction strategies
ASMR | DATE WITH SHRIMPY | I'll Be Knocking on Heaven's Zoom Door Asking You To Pls Pick Up... Don't Ghost Me :(:(:(
Through this work, Wijshjer looks at how anxieties surrounding intimacy intersect with new digital normals while we move more to web-based communications.
John Boehme: OPEN ACTION dotcom
OPEN ACTION is a monthly laboratory for exploration of Performance Art, where every month a new location is randomly chosen and new performative actions occur during a variable timeframe. These events are open to anyone to attend.
CONTACT STUDY: REHEARSALS IN MINOR ABSTRACTION
Structured as a series of successive action-based experiments, contact study: rehearsals in minor abstraction stages relationships between touch and sight, images and movements, as possible pathways to pleasure.
Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo: Re-Constructions
Re-constructions is an exploration of new inter-disciplinary approaches to drawing focused on the legacy and impact of the Salvadoran civil war.
Placed
Placed gathers the work of three artists and one writer working through articulations of home and place. Andrea Carvalho (Hamilton, ON) and Czarina Mendoza (Windsor, ON) both work with domestic materials and architectonic forms to explore how cultural traditions and iconography are re-imagined by second-generation Canadians