Saturday, September 30 During Nuit Blanche, sunset to sunrise Drake Commissary, 128 Sterling Road “On the horizon the shadow speaks another story,” presented by MOCA, the Drake Commissary in collaboration with Sedition, is a curated display of video artworks on the screen at 128 Sterling Road from dusk 'til dawn throughout Nuit Blanche Toronto. Iván […]

The program of talks, The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be, invites arts professionals to share their thoughts on how to create a museum model that answers to the pressures of our extreme present, but at the same time establishes a meaningful and enduring agenda. The first speaker, Vasif Kortun, founding Director of Research […]

Amy Franceschini, founder of Futurefarmers, inaugurates MOCA’s The Art of Propagation series of conversations. Thinking about site, environmental awareness, food culture and agriculture, Franceschini is invited to work with MOCA and across the city on a long-term engagement. The aim, in time, is to filter her thinking and actions, in collaboration with local organizations, artists, researchers, […]

In partnership with superkül, MOCA will be sharing proposals for the entry floor landscape of its future home on Sterling Road within a lounge in the SOLO Section of the fair. superkül's seating structure responds to the mushroom column heads found in the Auto Building, designed by architect J. W. Schreiber. Erected in 1919, the building […]

Basil AlZeri’s performance-lecture The Most Prized of All Closets explores the dual function of the pantry as a site of preservation and resistance. The pantry serves a basic function in a home as the place where fermented, pickled, preserved and dried foods are stored. With the advent of the global production and distribution of food, many people are […]

Kate Fowle: The Reflexive Museum The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be speaker series Wednesday, November 29, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Scrap Metal Gallery, 11 Dublin Street, Unit E   Kate Fowle is Chief Curator for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Director-at-Large at Independent Curators International (ICI) in New […]

Amy Wong's performative artist talk, Angry Asian Feminist Loves Detox Soup, will be conceptualized around her mother Regina Wong’s recipe for Lok Dou Sa, a sweet mung bean detox soup.

Living Spirits explores the practice of Makgeolli, Korean fermented rice wine, which survived many decades of prohibition through Japanese Occupation and military dictatorship. In making Makgeolli, raw ingredients nearing their expiration transform into an entirely different being through the process of fermentation - suggesting alchemy, a sense of magic. Living Spirits expands on ideas around lineage, desire, longing, […]

Artist Richard Fung’s documentary Dal Puri Diaspora traces Caribbean roti’s passage across space and time. Fung will use this documentary as a starting point for tracing the vast web of connections that entangle flour, flatbread, and British colonialism. Richard Fung: The Wayward Roti The Art of Propagation performative speaker series Wednesday, February 14, 7 - 9 pm Henderson Brewery, […]