Maya Ben David
Maya Ben David (MBD) is a Toronto-based Jewish-Iranian artist. Working in video, installation and performance, she creates worlds and characters that aid her ongoing exploration of anthropomorphism, cosplay and performative personas.
Lucia Wallace
Lucia Wallace is a queer artist/writer from Toronto, Ontario and is a recent graduate of OCAD University’s CADN program. With a BFA in Drawing & Painting (2018), her studio and research practices span textiles, contemporary ceramics, creative writing, and painting. Focusing on tactility and materiality, she strives to intertwine her making and writing processes.
Nat Smith
Hi, my name is Nat Smith. Right now I’m a fourth-year student at OCAD University, but I also work as a strategist at award-winning agency No Fixed Address and am a board member of Toronto-based music non-profit Waveland.
This episode is guest-hosted by Nat Smith and was recorded in Tkaronto on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations.
Claudia Slogar Rick
Claudia Slogar Rick is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. They graduated from the University of Guelph in 2017, majoring in Studio Art. Their practice involves, drawing, sculpture, performance and the internet using the aesthetics of necessity and efficiency. Rick’s work is unapologetically low-brow, accessible, and community-based.
B Wijshijer
B Wijshijer is a research-based artist working within digital media and video installation. Wijshijer utilizes online trends and subcultures to deconstruct mediated intimacies and personas on digital platforms. Informed by acceleration aesthetics, their work plays with excess and artifice to interrogate the ways in which late capitalism affects our digital lives. Wijshijer received their BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University in 2017 and an MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2020.
Chantal Hassard
Chantal Hassard is an artist and filmmaker interrogating the relationship between an artwork, the artist and its viewer which she views in parallel with law, policy and the body politic and often makes participatory paintings that embody this relationship.
She graduated from the University of Toronto in Political Science and Visual Studies and is currently wrapping up a MA degree in Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on the cultural production of autonomous space in Amsterdam.
Her current body of work 'A(d)Just (the) City' performs the experimental role of artistic research by delivering a translation and analysis of the collective cultural production carried out by a decentralised assemblage of individual artists and activists working within the squatting scene and other autonomous spaces around Amsterdam. The ongoing self-documentation through visual, musical, poetic and other forms of cultural production emerging from autonomous cultural space is interpreted as part of a collaborative activistic and artistic urban process which has struggled to produce alternative/autonomous/free spaces as a force of resistance against capitalist logic and gentrification of Amsterdam as a hyper touristic city.
Suritah Wignall
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Emerging Caribbean Canadian artist Suritah Teresa Wignall is a passionate communicator; Suritah’s paintings are filled with exuberance, color and light. Her pieces pay homage to her African roots.
Jonah Strub
Jonah Strub is a painter, sculptor, performance artist, and ceramicist based out of Toronto. He graduated from the University of Guelph in 2019, with a double major in Studio Art and Psychology. Jonah finished off his degree at the University of the Arts (HFK) in Bremen. Since experimenting with ceramics in Germany, Jonah’s practice has pivoted from painting to include sculptural forms. One of his more recent works being a larger than life bust titled “Mz. Velveeta Creamcheese” made of paper maché and acrylic paint adorned with a feather boa.