Notice of Disruption by Christopher Dela Cruz is a modified thermal printer mounted on a wall that is activated by a sound sensor, printing in real-time when a new sound enters the realm of silence. It perpetually monitors the sound levels in the space and logs the current time and date of the disturbances. The work […]
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Marks of rupture
By Abby HoEdited by Kelly Lui I recently read a memorable phrase on social media: “disrupting the pattern, shaking the repetition.” This phrase guided my ongoing ruminations of Mashal Khan’s work, She Doesn’t Need Your Saving, a film that takes viewers to witness the artist’s intimate exchanges with her mother. Through their relations, we witness […]
Read more "Marks of rupture"Through the Virtual Aether by Rea Sweets is a live-guided exploration, discussion, and immersive audio experience through Habbo, a pixel art-based virtual world. This project was part of the 2020 Themed Commission Residency, “Remote Realities”, presented by Trinity Square Video & Dames Making Games. See more of Rea Sweets here Read Joy Xiang’s critical response
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By g.a. chishti Edited by Grayson Lee between two: i) silences is sound, ii) sounds is silenceiii) ______________ The conversational interview with Christopher Dela Cruz took place on a Saturday. We were three time zones apart*. Dela Cruz is a person who makes art and is interested in technology. The website for Notice of Disruption, is […]
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Plant is a World: The Sounds of Remembrance
By Vince HaEdited by Kelly Lui I must preface that I have not seen Jo SiMalaya Alcampo’s interactive Singing Plants: Reconstructing Memory installation in person; my interaction has been through secondary sources such as videos, written documents, casual chats with those who have, an interview with the artist, and other traces that the installation has […]
Read more "Plant is a World: The Sounds of Remembrance"The following images are taken from Sameer Farooq’s A Heap of Random Sweepings, a solo exhibition presented at The Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, ON, Canada, curated by: Mona Filip. The exhibition tackles the fraught and violent histories of anthropological and encyclopaedic museum collections, their colonial origins, structures and impulses. See more of Sameer Farooq’s […]
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The violence of white supremacy is not always scorching
By Petrina NgEdited by Melina Mehr The violence of white supremacy is not always scorching, uncontrollable flames – sometimes it’s a glacier, moving beneath our feet, slowly (invisible) but with the monumental force of gravity. This is a violence that shape shifts, and often embodies what we intrinsically consume as beauty, as seduction, and as […]
Read more "The violence of white supremacy is not always scorching"Do humans dream of each other?
By Joy XiangEdited by Grayson Lee Do humans dream of each other?[1] i forget what it’s like to build a pixel version of myself or any other persona i could possibly take on. the free clothing you get through habbo, without paying for credits, are sorely lacking. i settle on a gray and black tank […]
Read more "Do humans dream of each other?"Sitting in the Chair: A response to SABIREEN
By Darian RazdarEdited by Kelly Lui IN THE PRESENCE OF ARCHIVAL ABSENCE1 In Summer 2021, South Asian Scarborough-raised artist, Noor Khan, was in the process of moving to the United States to pursue a MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art. Following Khan’s southward route, only a month later, was a hard drive carrying the […]
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Islands I & II
by Cecilia Federizonedited by Jasmine Gui Introduction Articulating my experiences, thoughts and observations about being a racialized Filipina in the Canadian landscape has not been easy. By reading and having provocative conversations during my undergraduate years, I developed a language to speak about it and eventually pursued a Master’s Degree at the University of Toronto […]
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