Creative Projects
Radical Love
SYRUS MARCUS WARE
A multimedia installation that centres Black and Afro-Indigenous Trans women and non-binary people, creating monuments to Trans lives and their survival.
Receipts
PUBLIC VISUALIZATION STUDIO
A multimodal interface that receives, anonymizes, archives, and performs testimonies to anti-Asian aggression in public space.
The Bentway as Hostile Architecture
PHAT LE & BENJAMIN DE BOER
A call to reinvest the work’s production budget into community initiatives by establishing aid networks to disseminate resources to local affinity groups.
Photo Essay
EBTI NABAG
Ebti Nabag travels beyond The Bentway to examine how ideas of safety manifest and are communicated in public space through borders and boundaries, signs and symbols, public space architectures, and delineations.
To Be Safe in our Skin
KAEJA D’DANCE
As a responsive creator investigating the power of Touch, choreographer Karen Kaeja is curious about what we can touch and cannot touch, and what is seen and unseen in public territory. In a raw live-stream performance that is intimate and up close, the presence and harmony of three womxn of different identities address public safety.
A Settler’s Land Acknowledgement
CHRIS LEE
A Settler's Land Acknowledgement is an exercise in destabilizing the colonial notion of the “public" by exploring the extent to which words and claims matter.