https://simplecast.com Toronto Biennial of Art Podcast In expanding dialogues around the Toronto Biennial of Art, curators, artists, and practitioners discuss their work and processes through a series of interviews. 2019, Toronto Biennial of Art en Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:15:00 +0000 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:15:11 +0000 https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com Toronto Biennial of Art Podcast https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/72c708f0-2c73-4759-9f9f-b99321300568/1374a212-4093-4341-8a59-b56c83be6eb5/3000x3000/album-cover.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com episodic In expanding dialogues around the Toronto Biennial of Art, curators, artists, and practitioners discuss their work and processes through a series of interviews. Toronto Biennial of Art no https://feeds.simplecast.com/BT5jWsXK art biennial, art event, art program, artist behind-the-scenes, artist interviews, artist stories, behind-the-art, contemporary art, toronto art, toronto biennial of art Toronto Biennial of Art info@torontobiennial.org 1c0ab402-a22b-4e17-94c4-f3d3a28ae525 Derya Akay and Tairone Bastien Tape/Talk: Acts of Engagement is the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art Podcast series. This three episode edition revisits the Biennial, which ran from March 26 to June 5, through curator-led engagements. Featuring three Exhibition artists working across different venues and mediums, the series approaches reflection, listening, and learning through an engaging and experiential lens. While in discussion with artists, exhibited works, processes, research, and philosophies are explored. Woven within are diegetic sounds that encourage collective listening—sounds around making, doing, and being. The series provides an opportunity for a wide-rage of audience to access the Biennial content, artists, and curators. 

Tape/Talk: Acts of Engagement is produced by Roxanne Fernandes in collaboration with Katie Jensen and Ren Bangert of Vocal Fry Studios (@vocalfry). Music is by LAL (@lalforest).

]]> Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:15:00 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Derya Akay, Tairone Bastien, Roxanne Fernandes, Vocal Fry Studios) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/derya-akay-and-tairone-bastien-dyquu6Ve Tape/Talk: Acts of Engagement is the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art Podcast series. This three episode edition revisits the Biennial, which ran from March 26 to June 5, through curator-led engagements. Featuring three Exhibition artists working across different venues and mediums, the series approaches reflection, listening, and learning through an engaging and experiential lens. While in discussion with artists, exhibited works, processes, research, and philosophies are explored. Woven within are diegetic sounds that encourage collective listening—sounds around making, doing, and being. The series provides an opportunity for a wide-rage of audience to access the Biennial content, artists, and curators. 

Tape/Talk: Acts of Engagement is produced by Roxanne Fernandes in collaboration with Katie Jensen and Ren Bangert of Vocal Fry Studios (@vocalfry). Music is by LAL (@lalforest).

]]> Derya Akay and Tairone Bastien Derya Akay, Tairone Bastien, Roxanne Fernandes, Vocal Fry Studios 00:15:59 In the third and last episode, artist Derya Akay is joined by curator Tairone Bastien come together to prepare a home-cooked Turkish meal (Sarımsaklı köft, börek and atom) and reflect the weaving together of personal memories and familial histories with larger cultural and geopolitical narratives that form “Queer Dowry”. In the third and last episode, artist Derya Akay is joined by curator Tairone Bastien come together to prepare a home-cooked Turkish meal (Sarımsaklı köft, börek and atom) and reflect the weaving together of personal memories and familial histories with larger cultural and geopolitical narratives that form “Queer Dowry”. no full 3 2 ed2f0abd-94af-4de9-82d9-316b0ff2344f Anne Zanele Mutema and Chiedza Pasipanodya The Toronto Biennial of Art introduces the 2022 Podcast series as a curator-led engagement. Featuring three Exhibition artists working across different venues and mediums, the series approaches reflection, listening, and learning through an engaging and experiential lens. While in discussion with artists, exhibited works, processes, research, and philosophies are explored. Woven within are diegetic sounds that encourage collective listening—sounds around making, doing, and being. The series provides an opportunity for a wide-range of audiences to access the Biennial's content, artists, and curators. Named for – and with a structure inspired by – the radio storytelling format “tape talk”, each episode highlights and reflects upon a conversation between artist and curator engaging through action and place-based experiences.

2022 Series: Tape/Talk: Acts of Engagement
Produced by Roxanne Fernandes in collaboration with Katie Jensen and Ren Bangert of Vocal Fry Studios.

]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Anne Zanele Mutema, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Vocal Fry Studios, Roxanne Fernandes) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/anne-zanele-mutema-and-chiedza-pasipanodya-xpFhrK_H The Toronto Biennial of Art introduces the 2022 Podcast series as a curator-led engagement. Featuring three Exhibition artists working across different venues and mediums, the series approaches reflection, listening, and learning through an engaging and experiential lens. While in discussion with artists, exhibited works, processes, research, and philosophies are explored. Woven within are diegetic sounds that encourage collective listening—sounds around making, doing, and being. The series provides an opportunity for a wide-range of audiences to access the Biennial's content, artists, and curators. Named for – and with a structure inspired by – the radio storytelling format “tape talk”, each episode highlights and reflects upon a conversation between artist and curator engaging through action and place-based experiences.

2022 Series: Tape/Talk: Acts of Engagement
Produced by Roxanne Fernandes in collaboration with Katie Jensen and Ren Bangert of Vocal Fry Studios.

]]> Anne Zanele Mutema and Chiedza Pasipanodya Anne Zanele Mutema, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Vocal Fry Studios, Roxanne Fernandes 00:16:31 In this episode, artist Anne Zanele Mutema invites us to consider alternative belief systems through the idea of an Event defined for her as a phenomenon located at a single point in time in the context of self, culture, and history. Mutema’s work “Systemic Necropolis” reflects on ideas of space, memory, and phenomenology.  "Ngozi: We Might Listen for the Shimmerings" is organized by Chiedza Pasipanodya as a part of the 2022 Curatorial Fellowship program, made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment, and with support from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Ngozi features the work of Anne Zanele Mutema, Buhlebezwe Siwani, and Timothy Yanick Hunter. In this episode, artist Anne Zanele Mutema invites us to consider alternative belief systems through the idea of an Event defined for her as a phenomenon located at a single point in time in the context of self, culture, and history. Mutema’s work “Systemic Necropolis” reflects on ideas of space, memory, and phenomenology.  "Ngozi: We Might Listen for the Shimmerings" is organized by Chiedza Pasipanodya as a part of the 2022 Curatorial Fellowship program, made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment, and with support from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Ngozi features the work of Anne Zanele Mutema, Buhlebezwe Siwani, and Timothy Yanick Hunter. no full 2 2 0b417157-fb78-4461-9399-894170b353fd Dana Prieto and Katie Lawson The Toronto Biennial of Art introduces the 2022 Podcast series as a curator-led engagement. Featuring three Exhibition artists working across different venues and mediums, the series approaches reflection, listening, and learning through an engaging and experiential lens. While in discussion with artists, exhibited works, processes, research, and philosophies are explored. Woven within are diegetic sounds that encourage collective listening—sounds around making, doing, and being. The series provides an opportunity for a wide-range of audiences to access the Biennial's content, artists, and curators. Named for – and with a structure inspired by – the radio storytelling format “tape talk”, each episode highlights and reflects upon a conversation between artist and curator engaging through action and place-based experiences.

2022 Series: Tape/Talk: Acts of Engagement
Produced by Roxanne Fernandes in collaboration with Katie Jensen and Ren Bangert of Vocal Fry Studios.

]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Katie Lawson, Dana Prieto, Roxanne Fernandes, Vocal Fry Studios) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/dana-prieto-and-katie-lawson-GFXUVyDu The Toronto Biennial of Art introduces the 2022 Podcast series as a curator-led engagement. Featuring three Exhibition artists working across different venues and mediums, the series approaches reflection, listening, and learning through an engaging and experiential lens. While in discussion with artists, exhibited works, processes, research, and philosophies are explored. Woven within are diegetic sounds that encourage collective listening—sounds around making, doing, and being. The series provides an opportunity for a wide-range of audiences to access the Biennial's content, artists, and curators. Named for – and with a structure inspired by – the radio storytelling format “tape talk”, each episode highlights and reflects upon a conversation between artist and curator engaging through action and place-based experiences.

2022 Series: Tape/Talk: Acts of Engagement
Produced by Roxanne Fernandes in collaboration with Katie Jensen and Ren Bangert of Vocal Fry Studios.

]]> Dana Prieto and Katie Lawson Katie Lawson, Dana Prieto, Roxanne Fernandes, Vocal Fry Studios 00:18:31 Before the onset of the 2022 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art, Curator Katie Lawson joined artist and educator Dana Prieto in her studio during the making of “Footnotes for an Arsenal”, her seminal work exhibited at the Small Arms Inspection Building. Together, they discuss the origins of Dana’s work as a ceramic artist through exploration of site, material origins, dirt, mess and porosity. Before the onset of the 2022 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art, Curator Katie Lawson joined artist and educator Dana Prieto in her studio during the making of “Footnotes for an Arsenal”, her seminal work exhibited at the Small Arms Inspection Building. Together, they discuss the origins of Dana’s work as a ceramic artist through exploration of site, material origins, dirt, mess and porosity. no full 1 2 90c85c71-dfca-40d4-b23a-fe353311e8dc Short Format: Jeneen Frei Njootli and Tsēmā Igharas In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Chad Crouch, Feeding Flock (Instrumental) , 2019

Photo: Jeneen Frei Njootli and Ts̱ēmā Igharas, Sinuosity , 2018-2019, image: Yuula Benevolski, courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.  

 

]]> Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Tsēmā Igharas) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-jeneen-frei-njootli-and-tsema-igharas-buMQN1Ez In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Chad Crouch, Feeding Flock (Instrumental) , 2019

Photo: Jeneen Frei Njootli and Ts̱ēmā Igharas, Sinuosity , 2018-2019, image: Yuula Benevolski, courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.  

 

]]> Short Format: Jeneen Frei Njootli and Tsēmā Igharas Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Tsēmā Igharas 00:05:42 In this podcast, Jeneen Frei Njootli (Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation) and Ts̱ēmā Igharas (Tahltan First Nation) share how they collaborate with one another through growing friendship and their shared deep connections to the land. In their ongoing collaborative performance "Sinuosity" (2018-2019), the artists engage with ancestral memory, networks of kinship, and communal relations braids within communities and the land. The performance was part of "TELLINGS: A Post-Human Vocal Concert" (2019), co-curated by Maiko Tanaka and Myung-Sun Kim, where artists working experimentally with sound—live electronics, deep listening, sound art—performed compositions that challenge the conceptions of "voice" in terms of its origin and agency. "TELLINGS" was co-presented in partnership with Trinity Square Video and OCAD University Graduate studies. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. In this podcast, Jeneen Frei Njootli (Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation) and Ts̱ēmā Igharas (Tahltan First Nation) share how they collaborate with one another through growing friendship and their shared deep connections to the land. In their ongoing collaborative performance "Sinuosity" (2018-2019), the artists engage with ancestral memory, networks of kinship, and communal relations braids within communities and the land. The performance was part of "TELLINGS: A Post-Human Vocal Concert" (2019), co-curated by Maiko Tanaka and Myung-Sun Kim, where artists working experimentally with sound—live electronics, deep listening, sound art—performed compositions that challenge the conceptions of "voice" in terms of its origin and agency. "TELLINGS" was co-presented in partnership with Trinity Square Video and OCAD University Graduate studies. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. no full 10 1 e64a0cb6-01b4-4549-918c-8d6b731d4ea7 Short Format: Life of A Craphead In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: LUCA.

Images:
Portrait: Life of a Craphead, photo by Yuula Benevolski
Work: King Edward VII Statue Floating Down the Don River, 2017, photos courtesy of Life of a Craphead.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Amy Lam, Aliya Pabani, Jon McCurley, Angela Shackel) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-life-of-a-craphead-o7hunV3N In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: LUCA.

Images:
Portrait: Life of a Craphead, photo by Yuula Benevolski
Work: King Edward VII Statue Floating Down the Don River, 2017, photos courtesy of Life of a Craphead.

]]> Short Format: Life of A Craphead Amy Lam, Aliya Pabani, Jon McCurley, Angela Shackel 00:04:49 Life of a Craphead is the collaboration of Amy Lam and Jon McCurley whose work spans performance art, film, and curation, using humour as a form of empathy. As the 2019 Toronto Biennial Artists in Residency, hosted by Ireland Park Foundation and in partnership with Trinity Square Video, they began work on "Life of Life of a Craphead" (2020), an auto-fictional comedy TV show, which was screened as part of their subsequent residency with the Delfina Foundation and will be shown as part of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale in 2021. Here, Life of a Craphead reflect on the 2019 event "Doo-Red", organized during the time of their residency, and previous projects included in the making of the TV show such as "King Edward VII Statue Floating Down the Don River," 2017. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. Life of a Craphead is the collaboration of Amy Lam and Jon McCurley whose work spans performance art, film, and curation, using humour as a form of empathy. As the 2019 Toronto Biennial Artists in Residency, hosted by Ireland Park Foundation and in partnership with Trinity Square Video, they began work on "Life of Life of a Craphead" (2020), an auto-fictional comedy TV show, which was screened as part of their subsequent residency with the Delfina Foundation and will be shown as part of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale in 2021. Here, Life of a Craphead reflect on the 2019 event "Doo-Red", organized during the time of their residency, and previous projects included in the making of the TV show such as "King Edward VII Statue Floating Down the Don River," 2017. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. no full 9 1 23d1c50c-b57f-4cf1-8457-9c1a1a79b91b Short Format: Diane Borsato In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Blue Dot Sessions, The Popular Grove (2019); LUCA.

Images:
Portrait: Diane Borsato, photo by Yuula Benivolski
Work: YOU ARE A GOOD APPLE , 2019, photos by Yuula Benevolski, courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art. 

]]> Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Aliya Pabani, Angela Shackel, Diane Borsato) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-diane-borsato-ojNHbigE In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Blue Dot Sessions, The Popular Grove (2019); LUCA.

Images:
Portrait: Diane Borsato, photo by Yuula Benivolski
Work: YOU ARE A GOOD APPLE , 2019, photos by Yuula Benevolski, courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art. 

]]> Short Format: Diane Borsato Aliya Pabani, Angela Shackel, Diane Borsato 00:04:50 Diane Borsato's "ORCHARD" is a living sculpture made up of old and eccentric varietals of apple trees, planted by Borsato at the Small Arms Inspection Building – a contemporary art and cultural space of the City of Mississauga. The work expands ideas of public art and seeks to foster enduring connectedness to land, plants, food, and one another. In this podcast, Borsato describes the tastes, textures, shapes and colours of these apple “artefacts”, reflecting on the ways in which they trace histories of migration and genealogies of flavour. On September 29, 2019, Borsato performed the apple-tasting event "YOU ARE A GOOD APPLE" to launch this public art sculpture. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. Diane Borsato's "ORCHARD" is a living sculpture made up of old and eccentric varietals of apple trees, planted by Borsato at the Small Arms Inspection Building – a contemporary art and cultural space of the City of Mississauga. The work expands ideas of public art and seeks to foster enduring connectedness to land, plants, food, and one another. In this podcast, Borsato describes the tastes, textures, shapes and colours of these apple “artefacts”, reflecting on the ways in which they trace histories of migration and genealogies of flavour. On September 29, 2019, Borsato performed the apple-tasting event "YOU ARE A GOOD APPLE" to launch this public art sculpture. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. no full 8 1 71847b6e-ea58-48cb-abc3-863f2170d2d9 Short Format: Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: LUCA; Daniel Birch & Ben Pegley, Slowly Open Your Eyes, 2017.

Images:  Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak. Courtesy of the artists.

 

]]> Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:20:13 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Kim Tomczak, Aliya Pabani, Angela Shackel, Lisa Steele) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-lisa-steel-and-kim-tomczak-4JQYQUfc In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: LUCA; Daniel Birch & Ben Pegley, Slowly Open Your Eyes, 2017.

Images:  Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak. Courtesy of the artists.

 

]]> Short Format: Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak Kim Tomczak, Aliya Pabani, Angela Shackel, Lisa Steele 00:08:40 Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak have worked exclusively in collaboration since 1983, producing videotapes, performances, and photo/text works. Here they walk us through their trilogy… before I wake (2000–12). Produced over a twelve-year period, and mostly shot in the context of their domestic dwelling, the trilogy is a meditation on the body, aging, relationships, and the nature of the artists’ collaboration as partners in life and in art. In this podcast, Steele and Tomczak consider what decay looks like in analog and digital film, as well as what it means to prepare for the end of collaboration in this lifetime. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak have worked exclusively in collaboration since 1983, producing videotapes, performances, and photo/text works. Here they walk us through their trilogy… before I wake (2000–12). Produced over a twelve-year period, and mostly shot in the context of their domestic dwelling, the trilogy is a meditation on the body, aging, relationships, and the nature of the artists’ collaboration as partners in life and in art. In this podcast, Steele and Tomczak consider what decay looks like in analog and digital film, as well as what it means to prepare for the end of collaboration in this lifetime. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. no full 7 1 85f9e7a9-3712-4d33-ab3d-5bf1634517b7 Short Format: Zacharias Kunuk – ISUMA In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Antonio Bizarro, Marina, 2019; Nctrnm, La Femme, 2017. 

Image: Michelle Siu, The Canadian Press.

]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:00:19 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Isuma, Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani, Zacharias Kunuk) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-zacharias-kunuk-isuma-JzgyPSJ_ In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Antonio Bizarro, Marina, 2019; Nctrnm, La Femme, 2017. 

Image: Michelle Siu, The Canadian Press.

]]> Short Format: Zacharias Kunuk – ISUMA Isuma, Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani, Zacharias Kunuk 00:04:12 Artist collective Isuma ᐃᓱᒪ was founded in 1990 by Zacharias Kunuk, Paul Apak Angilirq, and Norman Cohn, and is Canada’s first Inuit (75 percent) production company. As part of the Biennial, "ᓄᐊᐱᐅᒑᑦᑑᑉᐅᓪᓗᕆᓚᐅᖅᑕᖓ One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk," 2019, features Noah Piugattuk’s encounter with a government agent sent to remove him and his family from their homeland. Here, the film’s director Zacharias Kunuk shares his approaches to storytelling and oral histories as a filmmaker, recreating the past for future learning. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. Artist collective Isuma ᐃᓱᒪ was founded in 1990 by Zacharias Kunuk, Paul Apak Angilirq, and Norman Cohn, and is Canada’s first Inuit (75 percent) production company. As part of the Biennial, "ᓄᐊᐱᐅᒑᑦᑑᑉᐅᓪᓗᕆᓚᐅᖅᑕᖓ One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk," 2019, features Noah Piugattuk’s encounter with a government agent sent to remove him and his family from their homeland. Here, the film’s director Zacharias Kunuk shares his approaches to storytelling and oral histories as a filmmaker, recreating the past for future learning. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. film, bienniale, toronto art, toronto biennial of art, art biennial, canadian, canadian indigenous, inuit, c, indigenous, filmmaker, contemporary art, storytelling, toronto biennial, tiff no full 6 1 7a4fd404-1425-4afe-bf34-4eb5863ceeab Short Format: Adrian Blackwell In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: LUCA; Daniel Birch, The Fugue, 2019.

Images
Portrait: Adrian Blackwell, photo: Jane Hutton
Work: Adrian Blackwell, Isonomia in Toronto? (harbour), 2019; photos courtesy of the artist, Toni Hafkenscheid, and Toronto Biennial of Art.

 

]]> Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:33:49 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani, Adrian Blackwell) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-adrian-blackwell-5TKDcOSh In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: LUCA; Daniel Birch, The Fugue, 2019.

Images
Portrait: Adrian Blackwell, photo: Jane Hutton
Work: Adrian Blackwell, Isonomia in Toronto? (harbour), 2019; photos courtesy of the artist, Toni Hafkenscheid, and Toronto Biennial of Art.

 

]]> Short Format: Adrian Blackwell Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani, Adrian Blackwell 00:06:24 Within Adrian Blackwell's two installations, "Isonomia in Toronto? (creek)" and "Isonomia in Toronto? (harbour)," he considers what role biological, social, and political forces may play in how we gather and organize space. These newly-commissioned structures, which became meeting places throughout the inaugural Biennial, ultimately reflect the city’s shifting shoreline and changing relationships with the lake over time. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. Within Adrian Blackwell's two installations, "Isonomia in Toronto? (creek)" and "Isonomia in Toronto? (harbour)," he considers what role biological, social, and political forces may play in how we gather and organize space. These newly-commissioned structures, which became meeting places throughout the inaugural Biennial, ultimately reflect the city’s shifting shoreline and changing relationships with the lake over time. Short Format Series Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. biennial, toronto art, art biennial, architecture, art, meeting places, structure, contemporary art, structure design, toronto biennial no full 5 1 b97261a3-2ef2-477c-887a-6392c3dacff5 Short Format: Ayumi Goto In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Pictures of the Floating World, Bumbling, 2019; LUCA; Blear Moon, Recalling, 2019.

Image credit: Rinrigaku, 2016. Documentation by Yuula Benivolski

]]> Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:02:47 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani, Ayumi Goto) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-ayumi-goto-_BKq_64P In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Pictures of the Floating World, Bumbling, 2019; LUCA; Blear Moon, Recalling, 2019.

Image credit: Rinrigaku, 2016. Documentation by Yuula Benivolski

]]> Short Format: Ayumi Goto Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani, Ayumi Goto 00:05:05 In her performance 'single use salmon plogging,' Ayumi Goto runs the Toronto Waterfront Marathon as the half-human/half-salmon geisha gyrl, addressing labour, responsibility, and the impact of environmental disaster. The work is dedicated to the late Anishinaabe grandmother and Water Walker Josephine Mandamin, who circumnavigated the Great Lakes to raise awareness about water pollution, and David S. Buckel, a lawyer, environmental activist, and runner, who self-immolated to protest humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels. Short Format Series Created & Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. In her performance 'single use salmon plogging,' Ayumi Goto runs the Toronto Waterfront Marathon as the half-human/half-salmon geisha gyrl, addressing labour, responsibility, and the impact of environmental disaster. The work is dedicated to the late Anishinaabe grandmother and Water Walker Josephine Mandamin, who circumnavigated the Great Lakes to raise awareness about water pollution, and David S. Buckel, a lawyer, environmental activist, and runner, who self-immolated to protest humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels. Short Format Series Created & Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. environment, bienniale, environmental activist, toronto art, toronto biennial of art, art biennial, water pollution, self-immolation, contemporary art, labour, performance art no full 4 1 2bdcbd09-2684-41f6-a6dc-49e855524b0d Short Format: Syrus Marcus Ware In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Parvus Decree, Cerebral Cortex Drone Mix; Lee Rosevere, Happy Little Clouds (2015); Hawkin, Woods (2015); Kevin McLeod, Bathed in the Light (2014).

Image courtesy of Lisa Kannako.

]]> Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:57:28 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Syrus Marcus Ware, Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-syrus-marcus-ware-ZI8_iGMd In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Parvus Decree, Cerebral Cortex Drone Mix; Lee Rosevere, Happy Little Clouds (2015); Hawkin, Woods (2015); Kevin McLeod, Bathed in the Light (2014).

Image courtesy of Lisa Kannako.

]]> Short Format: Syrus Marcus Ware Syrus Marcus Ware, Angela Shackel, Aliya Pabani 00:06:35 In Syrus Marcus Ware’s projects 'Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future)' and 'Antarctica,' he imagines a world where racialized people have survived the catastrophic impacts of the Anthropocene and white supremacy. Ware discusses the shared language of speculative futurism and how combining art with activism has the power to create solidarities beyond borders. Short Format Series Created & Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. In Syrus Marcus Ware’s projects 'Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future)' and 'Antarctica,' he imagines a world where racialized people have survived the catastrophic impacts of the Anthropocene and white supremacy. Ware discusses the shared language of speculative futurism and how combining art with activism has the power to create solidarities beyond borders. Short Format Series Created & Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. futurism, bienniale, toronto art, toronto biennial of art, art biennial, imagined futures, art activism, contemporary art, activism no full 3 1 824aa7fb-fbb6-4538-8ae7-e638b206050d Short Format: Maria Thereza Alves In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Chris Zabriskie, Remember Trees?, 2016; We Were Never Meant to Live Here, 2016.

Image: Portrait, Maria Thereza Alves

]]> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:42:24 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Maria Thereza Alves, Aliya Pabani, Angela Shackel) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-maria-thereza-alves-tp1OYsfB In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music: Chris Zabriskie, Remember Trees?, 2016; We Were Never Meant to Live Here, 2016.

Image: Portrait, Maria Thereza Alves

]]> Short Format: Maria Thereza Alves Maria Thereza Alves, Aliya Pabani, Angela Shackel 00:03:52 In this episode, artist Maria Thereza Alves invites us to consider our implication in the histories of the land we stand on and the rivers hidden beneath. Alves' works for the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art, 'Phantom Pain' and 'Garrison Creek,' reflect on human and non-human relationships with land and water. Short Format Series Created & Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. In this episode, artist Maria Thereza Alves invites us to consider our implication in the histories of the land we stand on and the rivers hidden beneath. Alves' works for the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art, 'Phantom Pain' and 'Garrison Creek,' reflect on human and non-human relationships with land and water. Short Format Series Created & Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. bienniale, toronto art, rivers, interview, human relations, contemporary art, hidden rivers, art biennal, maria thereza alves no full 2 1 4d89b13d-06f8-4b8a-b099-722bfd0b031e Short Format: Caroline Monnet In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music Credit: LUCA.

Images: Portrait, Caroline Monnet, photo by Ulysse Del Drago

For more information, visit: torontobiennial.org, @torontobiennial, and #TObiennial19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

]]> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:36:20 +0000 info@torontobiennial.org (Angela Shackel, Caroline Monnet, Aliya Pabani) https://toronto-biennial-of-art-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/short-format-caroline-monnet-_fnGHMXS In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Interviewed artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.

Music Credit: LUCA.

Images: Portrait, Caroline Monnet, photo by Ulysse Del Drago

For more information, visit: torontobiennial.org, @torontobiennial, and #TObiennial19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

]]> Short Format: Caroline Monnet Angela Shackel, Caroline Monnet, Aliya Pabani 00:03:35 In Caroline Monnet's work 'The Flow Between Hard Places,' the undulating edges of this monumental sculpture represent the sound waves created in uttering the word pasapkedjinawong (“the river that passes between the rocks”) in Anishinaabemowin, as spoken by Anishnaabe Elder Rose Wawatie-Beaudoin. Monnet discusses the importance of different types of monuments, movements, and the power of travelling distances to be heard. Short Format Series Created & Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. In Caroline Monnet's work 'The Flow Between Hard Places,' the undulating edges of this monumental sculpture represent the sound waves created in uttering the word pasapkedjinawong (“the river that passes between the rocks”) in Anishinaabemowin, as spoken by Anishnaabe Elder Rose Wawatie-Beaudoin. Monnet discusses the importance of different types of monuments, movements, and the power of travelling distances to be heard. Short Format Series Created & Produced by Aliya Pabani and Angela Shackel. sculpture, bienniale, toronto art, travel, art biennial, caroline monnet, monuments, contemporary art no full 1 1