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

Set Margins
Creatively applying the cultural politics of content, form, and style whilst critically dissecting these to spark literacy, Set Margins’ publications enforces the voices of marginalized cultural agendas. Set Margins’ delivers critical experiences, discourse, and dialogue, steps up for liberties and builds critical community.
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Toxoplasma Press
Toxoplasma Press makes available books and art projects which often feature a disregard for rules and authority. We don’t consider a book to be a unit of commerce—a package for an idea to be bought and sold. We create books to be art objects—often hand-bound and specially printed—or as lasting documentation of clandestine or otherwise impermanent art projects.
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Exhibition space with a framed print on white walls and a sculpture on a plinth, with a gallery office visible beside it, featuring a bookshelf filled with books, sculptures, and framed photos.

Shani K Parsons

Shani Khoo Parsons (she/her) is an independent curator, designer, mother, and founding director of Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC). With degrees in architecture (Temple U, Phila) and graphic design (RISD, Providence), she has pursued a transdisciplinary, process-driven practice within both independent and institutional contexts (AMNH, MoMA, Museum of Chinese in America, all NY), producing an eclectic body of work ranging from intimate artist’s books to immersive exhibitions. With Critical Distance she has collaboratively produced over 70 exhibitions and projects with 350+ artists and guest curators over the past decade, and has simultaneously developed an experimental independent curatorial practice; in 2022 she received her masters in visual/curatorial studies from the University of Toronto.

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