Critical Distance PROGRAMMING Accessible Curatorial Tour: A Big Heritage With a Glorious Past

Magdalyn is a curator and writer. Her practice explores embodied experience in relation to Western display practices and methods of knowing, taking into account familial knowledge, folklore, spirituality, and generational trauma. 

ma ma is a roving contemporary art space and collective founded in 2018 by Magdalyn Asimakis and Heather Rigg. Asimakis is a curator and writer. She has organized exhibitions and programs in Toronto and New York and her writing has been published in art magazines such as Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, and Artforum as well as exhibition catalogues for the New Museum and SFMoMA. She is currently a PhD student at Queen’s University where she is studying the display of global modernisms in museums. Rigg is a writer and is Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. Recent published essays can be found in issue 96 of esse and 142 of C Magazine.

Eleana Antonaki is a Brooklyn-based artist. She holds an MFA from Parsons, The New School and has been a fellow at Ashkal Alwan HWP Program in Beirut and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. She works with a variety of media such as drawing, sculpture, textile, and video.

Marina Xenofontos’ work employs the mediums of video and sculpture to consider the inevitability of failure and the marginalization of personal narratives within civic spaces. By shaping interpretations and meanings, she explores interrelated facets of simulations, objects, and translations that allow a diagrammatic approach to the remembrance of dysfunctional symbols.