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Spaces for Hesitation
Meghan: What brings you joy? Kosisochukwu: Getting out of my comfort zone. Long walks. The Ultimatum on Netflix—it’s a whole mess. My family and friends. The knowledge that I am intentionally creating this life that I’ve chosen to live.︎ website ︎ instagram
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Ghosts, Memories and Future Nostalgia
GHOSTS, MEMORIES, AND FUTURE NOSTALGIA In Conversation with Howie Tsui and Hana Amani ARTIST HOWIE TSUI CURATORIAL DEVELOPMENT HANA AMANI Many things are lost when we migrate from one place to another. The magic, the folklore, the mythology that we unconsciously bring with us to the new societies we live in, keeps some of the…
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Growing Pains
GROWING PAINS In Conversation with Nyla Innuksuk and Devyani Saltzman NYLA INNUKSUK STORYTELLER DEVYANI SALTZMAN ARTS ADMINISTRATION We all grew up with horror stories that spooked us in our dreams. We got older and either befriended the monsters or feared them. Filmmaker and media artist Nyla Innuksuk and arts administrator Devyani Saltzman befriended them and…
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Tales from the Dark Side
TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE WRITTEN BY ANONYMOUS ARTWORK BY QUENTIN VERCETTY “I learned from my enemies. Beat them at their own game.” – KILLMONGER IN BLACK PANTHER It’s a story we’ve been screaming forever, but no one wanted to hear. It’s the biggest elephant in Canada’s newsrooms that few wanted to talk about…
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The Picture of Jah Grey
THE PICTURE OF JAH GREY Jah Grey In Conversation with Anubha Momin JAH GREY PHOTOGRAPHER ANUBHA MOMIN WRITER Jah Grey is a self-taught photographer whose work is motivated by a desire to capture, question, and present queer depictions of Black masculinity. Focusing on portraiture, Jah’s images are often accompanied with written prose; stories that…
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Mushroom Eyes
Mushroom Eyes Connected to one another through an invisible mycelial web By: Tarun Nayar Today, I’ve wandered deep into the forest in search of fungi. It’s early enough in the spring that the creek next to the path is loud and playful. Sweat trickles down my back, even in this cool air. There is less…
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Necrobrands
Imagine an online store that uses artificial intelligence to generate graphic T-shirts. Once a week, the online store uses Twitter’s API to find trending topics.The top-ten trending topics are run through an image generator, like Midjourney, and added onto stock imagery using Printful’s API. The newly designed T-shirts are pushed onto a Shopify Store, using AI-generated descriptions by Critbot and OpenGPT. New products…
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Bottoms Up / Gratitude
BOTTOMS UP / GRATITUDE A collaborative response to rupture by Toronto’s arts community, animation by digital artist Alex McLeod, music by classically trained Gurpreet Chana and written piece by curator Rhiannon Vogl ANIMATION ALEX MCLEOD TABLA GURPREET CHANA POEM RHIANNON VOGL BOTTOMS UP Rupture isn’t a break, it’s not a letting go or a…
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I will stay there, even if in pieces
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Our eternal beings
Raji: You both responded to this theme, Ceremonial Deaths, from your respective vantage points. I’m curious what you’ve been thinking about? Howie: I was like: oh, I am already thinking about mingqi (burial objects) and developing a project around this practice of bone repatriation and funerary objects. I’m researching this Canadian Chinese history around the…
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Dahae Song
