https://rarara.ca rarara.ca Wed, 08 Nov 2023 09:29:16 +0000 https://rarara.ca en https://rarara.ca/RA-Landing-Page Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:01:17 +0000 rarara.ca https://rarara.ca/RA-Landing-Page <img width="5416" height="2183" width_o="5416" height_o="2183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e2fab1e37906531e96aedd2c7060eb2c921961b649bd9cfb01e13c256e667b9/rarara-back.png" data-mid="245055232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e2fab1e37906531e96aedd2c7060eb2c921961b649bd9cfb01e13c256e667b9/rarara-back.png" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdd79098823217e4bef06540e7aa2e63c6a1a3931a9a9b669997c6a1c08e7ee3/Asset-2.2.png" data-mid="122368724" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdd79098823217e4bef06540e7aa2e63c6a1a3931a9a9b669997c6a1c08e7ee3/Asset-2.2.png" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78d3da48cbea84d84cdba7e2772e15fd015e24e399fc9b930b2c38c6e7846121/pigeon-planet.png" data-mid="195678544" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78d3da48cbea84d84cdba7e2772e15fd015e24e399fc9b930b2c38c6e7846121/pigeon-planet.png" /> <img width="366" height="346" width_o="366" height_o="346" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e1d9e701786c21fa836c92e26564c6a4c0582d2614d1fee031eac334b343b78/Artboard-1.png" data-mid="245083669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/366/i/1e1d9e701786c21fa836c92e26564c6a4c0582d2614d1fee031eac334b343b78/Artboard-1.png" /> <img width="1200" height="1070" width_o="1200" height_o="1070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9968de1667be2657fb0d76e7e2b9827ea2ccb0e233293481a49e8f635e7aac4a/amha-planet.png" data-mid="144298018" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9968de1667be2657fb0d76e7e2b9827ea2ccb0e233293481a49e8f635e7aac4a/amha-planet.png" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c9d69277d7cf0e6c49926050aa7636d901f89d33d4c5154ca137ce83085c165/coc-planet.png" data-mid="173868476" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c9d69277d7cf0e6c49926050aa7636d901f89d33d4c5154ca137ce83085c165/coc-planet.png" /> .woo { } https://rarara.ca/Pigeon-Planet-1 Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:29:13 +0000 rarara.ca https://rarara.ca/Pigeon-Planet-1 <img width="1609" height="3350" width_o="1609" height_o="3350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82ec2758f2b39f41f9552eeda8abb64bfd5297f33824b95689ae9265203da6de/cutout1.png" data-mid="196227689" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82ec2758f2b39f41f9552eeda8abb64bfd5297f33824b95689ae9265203da6de/cutout1.png" /> <img width="3638" height="3638" width_o="3638" height_o="3638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21352d7b4a0071de4b2bbdaebe1570d2bf7909171324259c3e965246cb76fca1/cutout2.png" data-mid="196227690" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21352d7b4a0071de4b2bbdaebe1570d2bf7909171324259c3e965246cb76fca1/cutout2.png" /> <img width="3638" height="3638" width_o="3638" height_o="3638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/109eee72c6033f006f6eb4de3f2d4b2fc24237d4f9b68d31b176f140bc8acaf6/cutout3.png" data-mid="196227691" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/109eee72c6033f006f6eb4de3f2d4b2fc24237d4f9b68d31b176f140bc8acaf6/cutout3.png" /> ︎ welcome to Pigeon Planet! this site is interactive, drag the images to reveal the text ︎ click here for exhibition hours &amp; free programming schedule! <img width="962" height="60" width_o="962" height_o="60" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab83c1f499ddfd33216e6d3b0baa665dcc41f99eeacc2f7383ad62418816c44d/curatorial-statement.png" data-mid="196220790" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/962/i/ab83c1f499ddfd33216e6d3b0baa665dcc41f99eeacc2f7383ad62418816c44d/curatorial-statement.png" /> by Jasmine Gui, Special Projects Programmer at Reel Asian “Pigeons will be my first guides”, claims Donna Haraway in the first chapter of her book, Staying with the Trouble, before launching into a series of pigeon tales to think about interspecies companionship, our long histories of becoming-with others of all kinds, and our response-ability to building futures for the flourishing of multispecies in the shadow of both joyful and terrible histories. What might all this have to do with taking up space at the 2023 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival? Early this summer, I began following—with great interest—a new art exploration Emmie Tsumura was documenting on her Instastories. Having attached a toy keyboard to her kitchen windowsill on which she scattered seeds, she began nurturing a relationship with a group of pigeons who would visit, and inadvertently, produce melodic sound. At the same time, I’d been thinking through the increasingly urgent necessity of practices of play and strange forms of intimacies in Asian diasporic community-making. The world as we know it is not working for us, and we must actively stay at the limits of what we do know and are familiar with, to play our way toward other imagined possibilities. So taking pigeons as my guide for this year’s RA:X programming, I reached out to Emmie to propose producing an exhibition that centers zany play as an invitation to move into the unfamiliar, and possibly by extension, the radical. Pigeonhole: verb assign to a particular category or class, especially in a manner that is too rigid or exclusive How have we “pigeonholed” ourselves into narrow frameworks that might not actually be that different from the structures that we have historically struggled against? What do we lose in our political over-identification with the assigned categories, histories and positions of our race and gender? Pigeonhole: noun a small recess for a domestic pigeon to nest in. The spirit of RA:X PIGEONHOLE takes the path through the joke seriously. We have built you a pigeonhole to come hang out in during the festival. In this space, we invite you to enjoy music co-collaborated by Tsumura’s regular pigeon band crew and human artists. Watch the footage of evolving intimacies between bird, human, sound and space. Spend a bit of time at the pigeon shrine and send blessings to one of our oldest companion species. Collage your own bird kin to add to the monster flock taking flight. Nest and rest for a while. Bring your friend. Bring five. RA:X PIGEONHOLE takes up in practice what Ken Chen calls “counterculture” in his essay, “Ethnicity as Counterculture”, “a strange impossible community that seeks not any specific emotion or goal but joy, the affect of possibility.” Chen imagines for the Asian diasporic community a radical practice of counterculture that moves away from legibility within the preexisting world, toward a place where the need for that validation falls away: Counterculture not as a utopia, but simply another mode of relations, just like all the other problematic ones. Counterculture as another way of social being, one in which race functions neither as a wound nor as badge of diversity. Counterculture that sees race not as a lens through which one critiques the center, but as a site where you may create your own work virtuously unseen by that center. If we play hard enough, If we play together, reworlding might just grow from the ruins of the present; in the blindspot of the center; through the joy of an extended joke, to the sound of pigeon feet on a baby grand. https://rarara.ca/Pigeon-Planet-Band Wed, 08 Nov 2023 09:08:39 +0000 rarara.ca https://rarara.ca/Pigeon-Planet-Band ︎ click here for exhibition hours &amp; free programming schedule! <img width="515" height="59" width_o="515" height_o="59" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f3de193accec3a6a7b066532876610ec98256da00692a7d69b9f4678861d238/the-first-ep.png" data-mid="196222088" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/515/i/7f3de193accec3a6a7b066532876610ec98256da00692a7d69b9f4678861d238/the-first-ep.png" /> Purchase now! 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She positions her work where politics meets the every day, and advocates for more accessible, inclusive, and joyful communities through justice-oriented design strategies. She holds a masters in design from York University, with current area of research focusing on chaos, absurdity, and the occult. <img width="490" height="69" width_o="490" height_o="69" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/383da1be2ee0fb8aca4ba3446b9c9058c6a45af9130858531a00e5366fdbcbdd/jasmine.png" data-mid="196224691" border="0" data-scale="79" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/490/i/383da1be2ee0fb8aca4ba3446b9c9058c6a45af9130858531a00e5366fdbcbdd/jasmine.png" /> Jasmine Gui is a Singaporean-born interdisciplinary artist, arts programmer, and researcher based in Tkaronto (Toronto). She works in paper, ceramics, tea and experimental book formats through an interdisciplinary arts and publishing space, Teh Studio. 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Meet our PMZ bird flock︎ A collection of collaged birds created by exhibition visitors over the two weeks at the 27th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. Feel free to move the flock around with your cursor! <img width="746" height="746" width_o="746" height_o="746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c52f008f332ab473442cf4eb6830494962b1e890eccfd4d55b3c40da8095f283/8.-IMG_9357.png" data-mid="208631639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/746/i/c52f008f332ab473442cf4eb6830494962b1e890eccfd4d55b3c40da8095f283/8.-IMG_9357.png" /> <img width="671" height="538" width_o="671" height_o="538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcecaf70a595662a4cc276a260fbcf998ee91d7421a900e3ca762fce70ce03ca/18.-IMG_9377.png" data-mid="211003215" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/671/i/dcecaf70a595662a4cc276a260fbcf998ee91d7421a900e3ca762fce70ce03ca/18.-IMG_9377.png" /> <img width="724" height="724" width_o="724" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/061d65723c92d35e3dceb2e4ebb3f6cbd8df2399ec1d910a82f5ef9a4d8ce8eb/2.-IMG_9346.png" data-mid="208628595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/724/i/061d65723c92d35e3dceb2e4ebb3f6cbd8df2399ec1d910a82f5ef9a4d8ce8eb/2.-IMG_9346.png" /> ︎Meet our PMZ bird flock Peep the Pigeon Band Fancam︎ <img width="712" height="570" width_o="712" height_o="570" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5caebbac9e22790951a5f1e134b42a4cd4c44c79b33b8d56301cf078d7ed5428/17.-IMG_9374.png" data-mid="211003214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/712/i/5caebbac9e22790951a5f1e134b42a4cd4c44c79b33b8d56301cf078d7ed5428/17.-IMG_9374.png" /> https://rarara.ca/A-mark-here-again Sat, 28 May 2022 01:24:07 +0000 rarara.ca https://rarara.ca/A-mark-here-again <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9dbd014acf54bdde89bf9880cac8f9940ad3772ff9173844d05afc81d1b47b0/amha-nav-edit-min.png" id="ama-mobile-nav"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3acf9a35d88a8358160cb0fe3b3e773d3bcbfed07ec0ff5966e673a85585ad6/HOME.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="ama-mobile-btn-home"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e34d6e57fb7f499c49736d8178a94bcdf30e06e4fb1cd9e3a2487a4b5a3f6227/TEAM.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="ama-mobile-btn-team"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e29d5c344e18f022b32f0e3e2bff17d7611caf594db3fa7744fa6cf24714a02/ABOUT.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="ama-mobile-btn-about"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aea551467d1ed2124b8c6c5d28d67ae0a52839461cd9d4612df0a2bd3c104b0/PROGRAMMING.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="ama-mobile-btn-programming"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66838a49453861707553da1d5d7424a34633a05ad0fa1b2d953a2c2ce7eb5388/ARTISTS.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="ama-mobile-btn-artists"> https://rarara.ca/Amha-About-1 Mon, 30 May 2022 22:26:15 +0000 rarara.ca https://rarara.ca/Amha-About-1 <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9dbd014acf54bdde89bf9880cac8f9940ad3772ff9173844d05afc81d1b47b0/amha-nav-edit-min.png" id="ama-mobile-nav"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3acf9a35d88a8358160cb0fe3b3e773d3bcbfed07ec0ff5966e673a85585ad6/HOME.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="about-mobile-btn-home"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e34d6e57fb7f499c49736d8178a94bcdf30e06e4fb1cd9e3a2487a4b5a3f6227/TEAM.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="about-mobile-btn-team"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e29d5c344e18f022b32f0e3e2bff17d7611caf594db3fa7744fa6cf24714a02/ABOUT.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="about-mobile-btn-about"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aea551467d1ed2124b8c6c5d28d67ae0a52839461cd9d4612df0a2bd3c104b0/PROGRAMMING.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="about-mobile-btn-programming"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66838a49453861707553da1d5d7424a34633a05ad0fa1b2d953a2c2ce7eb5388/ARTISTS.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="about-mobile-btn-artists"> <img width="394" height="109" width_o="394" height_o="109" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0669d39cef33cffa0e706caf30848020831fa8265c9c91b665451f67e0b3293b/about-page-title.png" data-mid="144187560" border="0" data-scale="18" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/394/i/0669d39cef33cffa0e706caf30848020831fa8265c9c91b665451f67e0b3293b/about-page-title.png" />A mark here, again is an interactive digital exhibition that embraces hyperlocality as an access point for community spaces and cultural networks to coalesce. With the impact of diasporic and multi-generational neighborhoods serving as the initial gesture, A mark here, again considers the resiliency, hope, and futurities that site-specific spaces hold for its growing members. The online exhibition features a mix of archival works and new commissions from Alexa Hatanaka, Atleigh Homma, Diana Nguyễn, Emerald Repard-Denniston, and Paul Wong, highlighting pan-Asian Canadian artists who range from emerging to established. These artists’ works experiment with personal histories and broader shared knowledge to support the social change required to fulfill community needs through an activist lens. A mark here, again is ultimately an offering of place-making as the necessary soil for ancestral intuitions to bind with contemporary connections and allow for mutual care to mature and strengthen. <img width="1476" height="109" width_o="1476" height_o="109" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e395a0091e5d9af0f85f1138b69fc0cd0ff4f138b4f2ed7b97d1018cfd6629c2/land-acknowledgement.png" data-mid="144188952" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e395a0091e5d9af0f85f1138b69fc0cd0ff4f138b4f2ed7b97d1018cfd6629c2/land-acknowledgement.png" />rarara is affilitated with Reel Asian, whose offices are located on the treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat nations. This territory is covered by the Dish With One Spoon covenant, a treaty of collective responsibility for the protection and sharing of land and resources. As a digitally hosted space, we encourage audiences to learn the specific histories and stories of the lands they are settled on—the 11 treaty lands, many treaty agreements, and traditional, unceded territories that continue to demand justice—and to support the ongoing work of Indigenous leaders and communities. We acknowledge the abundance of positionalities, histories, communities and relationships in Asian and Asian diasporic film and media arts. Regardless of our pathways, we all benefit from the Canadian government's history of broken treaties, and reckon openly with our responsibility as settler-immigrants to this land and its original stewards, naming the ways we are complicit in structures of white supremacy. We also recognize the way “development” has historically been used to steal land and displace people, and how technology continues to be wielded to suppress, surveil and inflict violence on Indigenous communities. We orient our work practices toward critical conversations and actions that question, interrogate and hold accountable our use of digital tools and creation of digital spaces. We honour the longstanding work of organizers, creatives, and communities that continue to give us hope, language, and possibility. We stand with Indigenous peoples all over Turtle Island who are exercising their sovereignty and working toward justice and freedoms, whose histories, presence and imagined futures inspire us over and over to envision what our future worlds must look like. . This digital exhibition is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Now program.<img width="810" height="148" width_o="810" height_o="148" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67c2e2d0fed589efce98fe819472f5b7a6f32b0a04c2e325e60bbd055daddf06/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png" data-mid="144211122" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/810/i/67c2e2d0fed589efce98fe819472f5b7a6f32b0a04c2e325e60bbd055daddf06/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png" /> https://rarara.ca/Amha-Artists-2 Tue, 31 May 2022 22:57:08 +0000 rarara.ca https://rarara.ca/Amha-Artists-2 <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9dbd014acf54bdde89bf9880cac8f9940ad3772ff9173844d05afc81d1b47b0/amha-nav-edit-min.png" id="ama-mobile-nav"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3acf9a35d88a8358160cb0fe3b3e773d3bcbfed07ec0ff5966e673a85585ad6/HOME.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="artist-mobile-btn-home"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e34d6e57fb7f499c49736d8178a94bcdf30e06e4fb1cd9e3a2487a4b5a3f6227/TEAM.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="artist-mobile-btn-team"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e29d5c344e18f022b32f0e3e2bff17d7611caf594db3fa7744fa6cf24714a02/ABOUT.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="artist-mobile-btn-about"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aea551467d1ed2124b8c6c5d28d67ae0a52839461cd9d4612df0a2bd3c104b0/PROGRAMMING.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="artist-mobile-btn-programming"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66838a49453861707553da1d5d7424a34633a05ad0fa1b2d953a2c2ce7eb5388/ARTISTS.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="artist-mobile-btn-artists"> <img width="446" height="109" width_o="446" height_o="109" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fde80fcd1ec000f2aee35aeff4e26ed81866fe92c22487f172b0bb00a62f0274/artists1.png" data-mid="144203147" border="0" data-scale="20" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/446/i/fde80fcd1ec000f2aee35aeff4e26ed81866fe92c22487f172b0bb00a62f0274/artists1.png" /> <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b25cdc6972aac830a025c7998178ffd6d10777a08868881cbaa25fbdd037ddac/alexa.png" data-mid="144203093" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/b25cdc6972aac830a025c7998178ffd6d10777a08868881cbaa25fbdd037ddac/alexa.png" />Alexa Hatanaka engages in time-intensive, historic processes connected to her Japanese heritage that support her thinking around community-building, environment, and honouring evolving cultural practices such as relief-printmaking, papermaking and kamiko, the practice of sewing garments out of konnyaku starch-strengthened washi (Japanese paper). Her seminal work “Hazmat Suit (unborn/ reborn tsunami)” was acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in 2021 and is exhibited in the contemporary gallery. Her individually and collaboratively authored work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the British Museum and Canada House in London; the Toronto Biennial of Art; and the Guanlan International Printmaking Base, Shenzen, China. Hatanaka is represented by Patel Brown Gallery. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c08d2eabd6e813eafe5bfcfa226a29ab024667ebeb7952e61f54f8f365a3ffd5/diana.png" data-mid="144203095" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/c08d2eabd6e813eafe5bfcfa226a29ab024667ebeb7952e61f54f8f365a3ffd5/diana.png" />Diana Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-Canadian freelance illustrator and comic artist, currently based in Toronto. Her love of line and mark-making informs much of her work. She often utilizes negative space, intentional lines, and a minimal colour palette to amplify emotional undertones. She is interested in marginalized stories, memories, relationships between people, nature, and the magic of mundane moments. In her spare time, she can be found watching movies, very bad tv, falling in a wormhole of random facts, sewing, reading, exploring nature, playing with her dog, and drinking too much coffee. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6449d92c0e70d45f2ecb970b2b7a646180327f5d61f78fc6fb920b4b1c9a23c2/atleigh.png" data-mid="144203092" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/6449d92c0e70d45f2ecb970b2b7a646180327f5d61f78fc6fb920b4b1c9a23c2/atleigh.png" />Atleigh Homma is an artist working in Tkaronto/Toronto. In her art practice she currently implements painting to express her experiences as a half-Japanese woman. Focusing on cultural identity, care and wellbeing, she looks to find connection to her ancestors using inherited heirlooms, knick-knacks and domestic objects as subjects for her works, thus creating scenes that call upon memory and familial history. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca14c921922ac67f2f97117ba8df90853b2f38c62d44f63e8e10df0e98815cc4/emerald.png" data-mid="144203091" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/ca14c921922ac67f2f97117ba8df90853b2f38c62d44f63e8e10df0e98815cc4/emerald.png" />Emerald Repard-Denniston is a queer Chinese-Canadian visual artist. She is committed to anticolonial and anti-capitalist politics and activist work. She wishes to break apart from settler-colonial, hetero-patriarchal binaries and beliefs. Based in Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam/Vancouver, and Tkaronto/Toronto, her practice focuses on the diasporic-Canadian experience through drawing, painting, and digital media. She is an emerging artist acquiring a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Drawing and Painting Program from OCAD University and a Minor in Art and Social Change. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec3ca0951f905121334fd8c7a9a53573c904e77685e3ae289185ba0404968af7/paul.png" data-mid="144203094" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/ec3ca0951f905121334fd8c7a9a53573c904e77685e3ae289185ba0404968af7/paul.png" />Paul Wong is a media-maestro making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes. He is an award winning artist and curator who is known for pioneering early visual and media art in Canada, founding several artist-run groups, leading public arts policy, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. Writing, publishing and teaching have been an important part of his praxis. With a career spanning four decades he has been instrumental proponent to contemporary art. https://rarara.ca/Amha-Team-1 Tue, 31 May 2022 23:53:31 +0000 rarara.ca https://rarara.ca/Amha-Team-1 <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9dbd014acf54bdde89bf9880cac8f9940ad3772ff9173844d05afc81d1b47b0/amha-nav-edit-min.png" id="ama-mobile-nav"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3acf9a35d88a8358160cb0fe3b3e773d3bcbfed07ec0ff5966e673a85585ad6/HOME.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="team-mobile-btn-home"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e34d6e57fb7f499c49736d8178a94bcdf30e06e4fb1cd9e3a2487a4b5a3f6227/TEAM.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="team-mobile-btn-team"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e29d5c344e18f022b32f0e3e2bff17d7611caf594db3fa7744fa6cf24714a02/ABOUT.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="team-mobile-btn-about"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aea551467d1ed2124b8c6c5d28d67ae0a52839461cd9d4612df0a2bd3c104b0/PROGRAMMING.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="team-mobile-btn-programming"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66838a49453861707553da1d5d7424a34633a05ad0fa1b2d953a2c2ce7eb5388/ARTISTS.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="team-mobile-btn-artists"> <img width="310" height="107" width_o="310" height_o="107" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/328b3587e71fda8fffdcae881814220320f1f8d8a01d199d241bed87292da903/TEAM1.png" data-mid="144206416" border="0" data-scale="15" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/310/i/328b3587e71fda8fffdcae881814220320f1f8d8a01d199d241bed87292da903/TEAM1.png" /> <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8c5b375bba42fca1db5b5f431a767868085e340e7cbfd77e18dfc7410544d04/kellyjasmine.png" data-mid="144205967" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/b8c5b375bba42fca1db5b5f431a767868085e340e7cbfd77e18dfc7410544d04/kellyjasmine.png" /> PROJECT CO-COORDINATORS! Kelly Lui is an arts worker with an interest in prioritizing care practices, interrogating sustainability within creative careers, and supporting socially-engaged multimedia projects. She is the Shorts Programmer at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and a collective member of TACLA who loves noodles. Jasmine Gui is special projects programmer at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, and TACLA member. She is also a doctoral student focused on decolonial, diasporic literature and media, and an interdisciplinary artist working in paper, ceramics and collage. When not doing any of those things, she is a tea practitioner. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f975fee2e5a9cc3a49ac36ded6327aa88e46aebe5775284c1a696791f61c272/tristan.png" data-mid="144206172" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/4f975fee2e5a9cc3a49ac36ded6327aa88e46aebe5775284c1a696791f61c272/tristan.png" />ASSISTANT CURATOR! Tristan Sauer is a New Media Artist and Curator working closely at the intersection of art and experimental tech. His practice is critically focused on technology and capitalism, viewing their relationship as a potential modern-day Pandora's box. Often expressed through his own identity as an Afro-Canadian, Sauer explores these topics through both an Afro-futuristic and Afro-Pessimistic lens. He graduated from the New Media program at Toronto Metropolitan University and now works at InterAccess and curates independently and as a member of the Toronto based collective Long Winter. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43e77e697c447025ec4f444c5d4c0cc66a1371089ed50f4ffb2c13a3b49e72fc/kathy.png" data-mid="144206207" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/43e77e697c447025ec4f444c5d4c0cc66a1371089ed50f4ffb2c13a3b49e72fc/kathy.png" /> MARKETING ASSISTANT! Kathy Wang is a writer and researcher based in Vancouver (Tsleil-Waututh), currently pursuing her M.A. in Art History and Visual Culture at York university. Her research interests include feminist theories, gender and sexuality studies, East and South Asian studies, and Asian-Canadian diasporic identities. Kathy has published and presented their writing in the Journal of Visual and Critical Studies, Asian Global Cultural Studies Forum and others. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ced964184b42588a5b37ad8c5d1b718f05b6884ced854544b0d023911ecdc0d5/melina.png" data-mid="144206106" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/ced964184b42588a5b37ad8c5d1b718f05b6884ced854544b0d023911ecdc0d5/melina.png" />CURATOR! Melina Sabeti-Mehr is an independent arts programmer, curator and writer. Her research and work focuses on implementing sustainable community-centered models for experiencing and engaging with art in cultural institutions and D.I.Y spaces. Her curatorial and written interests often consider the transgenerational memory, stories, and archival practices of racialized histories. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/407dbcc0e10de00693b291db60955c01e6f33ca321ed06e9dee82efbcc9c70b0/enna.png" data-mid="144206189" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/407dbcc0e10de00693b291db60955c01e6f33ca321ed06e9dee82efbcc9c70b0/enna.png" />ARTS EDUCATOR! Enna Kim [fongkikid] is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist, researcher and storyteller. Enna explores the dimensions between her hyphenated Korean-Canadian identity through animation, world-building, long-distance running, murals and zines.She has painted outdoor murals for The Patch Project, StreetARToronto, STEPS Public Art, Riverside BIA, Cabbagetown BIA and Burning Man. Enna has exhibited work for the Art Gallery of Ontario, the CNE, Trinity Square Video, InterAccess Gallery, OCAD University and Xpace Cultural Centre. Enna is currently pursuing her master's degree at York University. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/568af19ad2ea81ac47a4a433b9c8618751a44d2edae8453d3bc6bfe25dcdacb0/charisse.png" data-mid="144206246" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/568af19ad2ea81ac47a4a433b9c8618751a44d2edae8453d3bc6bfe25dcdacb0/charisse.png" /> DESIGNER &amp; DIGITAL CONTENT PRODUCER! Charisse Fung is a Hongkongese-Canadian curator, artist, and archivist currently existing in Markham, Canada. Her devotion to meaningful connection and collaboration is reflected in projects centering storytelling, visibility, and kinship. Stemming from her own experience of hybrid diasporic living, both her current curatorial and lens-based projects narrate her journey as she navigates her place in community, archival, racial, and sexual politics. https://rarara.ca/Amha-Programming-1 Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:43:59 +0000 rarara.ca https://rarara.ca/Amha-Programming-1 <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9dbd014acf54bdde89bf9880cac8f9940ad3772ff9173844d05afc81d1b47b0/amha-nav-edit-min.png" id="ama-mobile-nav"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3acf9a35d88a8358160cb0fe3b3e773d3bcbfed07ec0ff5966e673a85585ad6/HOME.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="programming-mobile-btn-home"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e34d6e57fb7f499c49736d8178a94bcdf30e06e4fb1cd9e3a2487a4b5a3f6227/TEAM.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="programming-mobile-btn-team"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e29d5c344e18f022b32f0e3e2bff17d7611caf594db3fa7744fa6cf24714a02/ABOUT.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="programming-mobile-btn-about"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aea551467d1ed2124b8c6c5d28d67ae0a52839461cd9d4612df0a2bd3c104b0/PROGRAMMING.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="programming-mobile-btn-programming"> <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66838a49453861707553da1d5d7424a34633a05ad0fa1b2d953a2c2ce7eb5388/ARTISTS.png" class="ama-nav-btn" id="programming-mobile-btn-artists"> <img width="619" height="109" width_o="619" height_o="109" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74cd7b40f89d7181ec410195b7d1393caee63ed919b1ba6c7dce7f2f12531873/programs1.png" data-mid="144206668" border="0" data-scale="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/619/i/74cd7b40f89d7181ec410195b7d1393caee63ed919b1ba6c7dce7f2f12531873/programs1.png" />Artist Round Table, Facilitated by Kesang Nanglu (captions coming soon) Email Interview with Diana Nguyen, Interviewed by Kesang Nanglu https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rMwxU1iVoxZ4Q7lunKTZ8WzCKOqelzUpCEzTY9NrVBk/edit?usp=sharing Creative Mapping Workshop with Enna Kim and&nbsp;Asian Queer Alliance (AQUA) Expanding upon the digital arts exhibition, A mark here, again, this creative mapping workshop centers around themes of cross-cultural practices, community, and activism within multi-media arts practice.The workshop itself is a separate activity that engages a deeper understanding of the artists' work, themselves and other community members. Using collaborative digital tools such as Zoom and Miro, Reel Asian has teamed up with Asian Queer Alliance (AQUA) to facilitate two workshops