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Burial for a Hungry Ghost is a lecture-performance that stages a ceremonial farewell for Ghost Tape #10, a psychological warfare tool deployed by the US military during the Vietnam-American War. This sonic-spiritual weapon, designed to instill fear and psychological distress, becomes the spectral center of artist Annie Wong’s inquiry into sound as both a weapon and a vessel for memory, resistance, and mourning. Through a series of encounters that traverse the divided landscapes of North and South Vietnam, the story-telling performance traces the ideological battlegrounds encoded in sound—propaganda Red music, banned Western…
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Never One Thing Alone, co-curated by Liz Ikiriko and Jaclyn Quaresma, considers intricate networks of solidarity and connection, movements of resistance, and collective action alongside the work of aka TAWLA, Dana Qaddah, Joyce Joumaa, Sharlene Bamboat, Roï Saade and Tamara Abdul Hadi. Never One Thing Alone charts the artists’ intersecting networks, which serve to strengthen one another, sometimes across borders. Finding solidarity even in the most difficult circumstances, these artists—from Cairo, Beirut, Khartoum, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto—are forging their own shadow paths through and against systems of colonial and capitalist…
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Maryam Tafakory’s works are composed of excerpts from other films. Combined with fragments of written text and shaped through live editing sessions performed in front of audiences, these archive-rich, labour-intensive live performances—which take place around the world—result in short films that draw from an extensive array of material. For example, her film performance Razeh-del راز دل incorporates elements from 64 films and draws references from 58 issues of the Iranian women’s newspaper Zan and 16 issues of Film Magazine. The process involves a deep engagement with the sources and the nuanced contexts they emerge from.…
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Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims is a film by artist, filmmaker, and writer Arjuna Neuman and philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva. Since 2016, the duo has collaborated on a series of films that each follow a classical element (water, earth, wind, fire) to reimagining the world speculatively and reparatively. Their “elemental cinema” merges poetics and critical theory, to propose a poignant and emotional take on the ethical-political challenges of the global present, through human and non-human perspectives. A new addition to their series, Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims follows the wind and what…
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Protesting and demonstrating in Toronto is a vital exercise of fundamental rights, and is protected under Section 2(c) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms– coming right after Freedom of expression 2 (b) and before Freedom of Association 2(d). These rights guarantee folks the ability put their words into action, together. Toronto continues to impose bureaucratic barriers — like detailed forms, notice requirements of 10 days or more, and consultation processes — that already constrict these freedoms. More recently, the City of Toronto has circulated a Public Consultation for…
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nowhere close to halfway does not offer neat resolutions. Instead, the eight films included in this program dwell in the ongoing attempt, the search, the still-unfulfilled—and, to varying degrees, the necessity of continually reaching for both what might be and what could have been. nowhere close to halfway holds within it a restless yearning that propels the program forward—an unresolved desire pulses through each of the films, manifesting as a longing for connection, family, home, nation, and self-determined futures. In Eri Saito’s Social Circle, the narrator tries to make sense of her…
Jaclyn Quaresma 