Critical Distance Profile Type Curator

Morgan Melenka is a visual artist from amiskwacîwâskahikan who has recently relocated to Mohkinstsis (Calgary). She engages with architecture to discuss how artifice functions in our built world, working between sculpture, installation, and printmaking through a constellation of materials that emphasize the veneer, including digitally printed fabric, vinyl, paper, ceramic tiles, mirror, and Formica.

Megan Gnanasihamany is an artist, writer, and curator. Their work examines systems of power and structures of meaning within language and visual media.

Dallas Fellini is a curator, writer, and artist living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. Their practice is invested in the dissolution of boundaries between different art forms and arts communities, trans and queer histories and futures, community practice, and the intersections of art and popular culture. Dallas is a member of curatorial duo Crocus Collective and a cofounder of Silverfish, an arts publication devoted to interdisciplinary collaboration, skill-sharing, and cultivating ongoing dialogues between emerging artists and writers.

Karina Iskandarsjah is a visual artist and independent curator from Singapore and Indonesia (based in Toronto, Canada). She is interested in exploring non-dominant histories, cultural hybridity, and the deconstruction of power structures.

Kalina Nedelcheva is a multi-media artist-researcher, emerging curator, and musician, based in Tkaronto, Canada. With an MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice from OCAD University, she explores the ways in which human consciousness engages in the process of meaning-making.