Visiting Artist Lecture Series Summer 2021

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ACM Studio / DMG Visiting Artist Lecture Series SUMMER 2021

 

Speakers:
Diane Borsato & Amish Morrell

When and Where?
Tue, June 8 | 2-3pm | Zoom
 

Diane Borsato

Diane Borsato is an artist and educator. She is Associate Professor of Studio Art and head of Experimental Studio at the University of Guelph. She has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, the Art Gallery at York University, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Art Centre as well as in galleries and museums around the world. She lives in Toronto. Visit her website: www.dianeborsato.net.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amish Morrell

Amish Morrell is an educator, curator, editor and writer. He teaches at OCAD University in Toronto. From 2008 to 2017 he was Editor and Director of Programs at C Magazine, one of North America’s foremost visual arts magazines. He has also curated numerous exhibitions and developed public projects including Nightwalks with Teenagers with Mammalian Diving Reflex; The Sauna Symposium with Hart House at the University of Toronto; and Reading the Bruce Trail with Public Studio. He divides his time between Toronto and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Link to recording.

 

Speakers:
Kevin Ramroop & Sampreeth Rao

When and Where?
Tue, June 29 | 2-3pm | Zoom

Kevin Ramroop 
 

Kevin Ramroop is an experimental musician and writer from Malvern, ON. His artistic ethos is shaped by the entangled, phantom limbs from postcolonial affections that interweave the history, space, and culture of his roots in rootlessness. Subsequently, his artistic routing is as multitudinous in medium and form as the cultures that inspire them, with his work spanning across music, film, poetry, fiction, public installation, and community arts education. Kevin's music has featured on digital and radio outlets such as Okayplayer, Flaunt Magazine, Exclaim!, CBC Radio One and BBC Radio 1Xtra, receiving multiple composition grants from both the Toronto and Ontario Arts Council. His writing is featured in several publications and exhibitions such as the all-Scarborough anthology Feel Ways, the Hart House Review, and the Scarborough Arts Big Art Book, receiving the Eugenie Shehirian Award in 2017 for Youth Literature.

 

Sampreeth Rao

Born near the cradling waves of Goa, India and raised in the diverse suburbs of Scarborough, Sampreeth Rao is a filmmaker that tells South Asian diasporic stories.

His experimental film, Watching TV with the Mind Off, combined music video, fictional narrative, and archival footage to profile the coming-of-age ruminations of Indian-Trinidadian artist Kevin Ramroop. The work featured in the TIFFxInstagram Shorts Film Festival and Regent Park Film Festival, where he was awarded the RBC Emerging Director’s Award. In 2019, he was a researcher/curator with the Ward Museum, creating Block by Block, an oral history exhibition featuring four migrant communities in Toronto.

Currently, he is working on Where the Trees Speak for Nuit Blanche 2022, an interactive audiovisual installation that utilizes the Rouge Park as a metaphor for migration in Scarborough. He is also the co-founder of Wave Art Collective, a creative arts incubator for Scarborough youth.

 

 

Image courtesy to the artists.

RSVP for UofT members:
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RSVP for external members: 
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Link to recording.

Speaker:
Henry Chan

When and Where?
Tue, July 27 | 2-3pm | Zoom

Henry Chan 

Henry Chan has been taking photographs for 30 years. 

For the past 15 years, he has been documenting performance art in Toronto, including the activities of FADO Performance Art Centre, the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival and the work of various performance artists.  In 2018, Henry was invited to document the Performance Art Oslo festival in Norway. 

Henry has also documented events and exhibitions for various arts venues and organizations such as The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, The Gardiner Museum, The Blackwood, The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Nuit Blanche (City of Toronto) and The Images Festival, among others. 

Henry’s photographs have appeared in various artist publications and print media, including Canadian ArtThe Globe and Mail and The New York Times

Image courtesy to the artist.

 

 

 

 

RSVP for UofT members:
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Link to recording.

 

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