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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Amy Wong
Amy Wing-Hann Wong (b. 1981, Toronto, she/they) is an angry Asian feminist disguised as an oil painter. Her practice ranges from painting-based installation to collaborative projects that explore the politics of making noise and thinking through together. She is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University. Often inverting private and public spaces, Wong asserts ways in which a leakiness and messiness of things can aspire towards intersectional feminist and anti-colonial ways of being. Their practice oscillates between varying systems of representation to evoke non-linear, personal narratives. They often work with what they consider a bad idea or a cliché to redefine them on their own terms. Wong’s current research explores mother work as methodology and as cultural transmission. Wong completed her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal, MFA…Find out more

Elida Schogt
Elida Schogt is an award-winning filmmaker, media artist, and writer whose work engages feminist, participatory practices and disrupts power imbalances in storytelling. She brings over 25 years of leadership and governance experience in the arts, most recently as Executive Director of the Media Arts Network of Ontario (MANO), and holds a PhD in Visual Arts from York University.Find out more

dis assembly
dis assembly is a collaborative and supportive arts co-lab dedicated to supporting conditions for neurodiversity; rethinking support and collaboration; and creating networks of mutual support. We are inventing our own ways of living.
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