Indu Vashist
Indu Vashist braids together body and land based practices into the various aspects of her life. She is a cultural worker, a Somatic Movement Educator in the tradition of Thomas and Eleanor Hanna, a yoga and rest practices teacher.
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SA Smythe

SA Smythe is a critical theorist, multi-instrumentalist, and transmedia storyteller whose work conjures black belonging and thriving relations beyond borders. Rooted in this antecartographic practice, Smythe weaves together poetics, performance, interactive light sculptures, soundscape compositions, monoprints, and archival ephemera. Their transmedia works have been featured internationally in solo and collaborative performances, film and multimedia installations, anthologies, and festivals. They currently work as Associate Professor of Black Studies & the Archive at the University of Toronto, where they direct the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, a multidisciplinary hub and collaborative atelier dedicated to Black Studies research and Black⇌Indigenous aesthetic interventions.

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Victoria Carrasco

Victoria Carrasco is a Chilean-Canadian curator, born in Montréal.

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Dee Dee Decay
With an emphasis on play, Dee Dee Decay works with sculpture, performance, video, and the tender processing of materials. The close relationship they hold with their grandmother directly informs their practice through manual labor, slowness, repetition, and care, whether they find themselves at the metal studio or by claybeds of the Humber River. For Dee, creating from a land-based practice becomes the connective tissue that brings together their cultural investigations and reverence of death in the form of a tangled fruit net. This past year, they’ve developed an affinity for white swiftlets and the unique nature of their nests. Ongoing research explores colonial histories in South Asia and their personal experiences with homebuilding and migration. Dee is a queer Chinese-Viet…Find out more

Jasmine Liaw
Jasmine Liaw is an emerging interdisciplinary artist moving fluidly between roles of filmmaker, curator, designer, performer, and producer in contemporary dance, new media art, and experimental film. Evidenced in collaboration and community, her work leans into transcultural narratives intersecting her Hakka-Chinese diaspora, her queerness, and queer theories in temporality and ecology.
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