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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 the ability to put words into action, together. Toronto continues to impose […]
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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 […]
Jaclyn Quaresma 