Clare Butcher will discuss some of the conversations and questions generated following the Toronto Biennial’s first iteration in 2019.
In this talk, Dreifelds will discuss the ways in which she utilizes handwoven textiles as entry points for her research into affective labour, social geography, duration, and combined sensory experiences such as sight and touch.
In this talk, Matt Russo from SYSTEM Sounds will share some of the ways they've been able to generate sound and music using lunar data and what it means for the people of Earth.
Raoul Olou is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His work focuses on ideas of home, belonging and archiving the mundane.
Pint-Sized Conversations a weekly Wednesday night brought to you by Henderson Brewing Co. MOCA will present "Body of Work" every second Wednesday of the month.
"Body of Work" talks invite artists and those who have worked across the floors of MOCA Toronto—members of Akin's Studio Program, Art Metropole, the Ontario Science Centre's studio residency and the Toronto Biennial—to discuss their individual practices.
Artist Jo SiMalaya Alcampo will introduce us to the Singing Plants - keepers of indigenous knowledges, stories and memory. These banana plants respond to human touch with songs - the Hudhud chant of the Ifugao people - and sounds of bamboo instruments and gongs indigenous to the Philippines. This interactive installation explores our interconnectedness with the […]
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, […]
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, […]
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.
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 […]