Making Otherwise: on sustaining creative practice in the face of precarity
March 27, 2026 - March 27, 2026Critical Distance is pleased to present Making Otherwise: on sustaining creative practice in the face of precarity
Critical Distance x Ingrid Jones with Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis at University of Toronto
Date & Time: Friday, March 27, 2026, 5-7 PM
Curated by Ingrid Jones through the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis curatorial fellowship at University of Toronto, Making Otherwise convenes an intimate roundtable bringing together artists and culture workers whose practices span installation, performance, sound, and socially engaged practice.
Invited guests for Making Otherwise include artists and culture workers across diasporic and cross-cultural contexts. For this inaugural session, we are pleased to host actor and playwright Lara Arabian; Curator, cultural producer and educator, Andreann Asibey; and artist and educator, Amy Wong.
Each guest speaker will offer a short presentation as an opening into collective conversation on how they have sustained their artistic process in a moment defined in part by digital acceleration, overproduction and extraction. Curator Ingrid Jones will facilitate the discussion, taking cues from from bell hooks’ theorization of the margins as a place of strength, Edward Said’s reflections on alienation, and Audre Lorde’s insistence on the costs and ultimately necessity of resistance and critical care Questions to be explored may include: What challenges and breakthroughs shaped the project’s outcome? What strategies allowed you to work slowly, deliberately, and in ethical relation? And, how can racialized artists and cultural workers sustain themselves and their practices in the wake of precarity, dispossession, institutional friction, and public scrutiny?
Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. This event is free to attend with the RSVP link below. As space is limited, please register by March 20th to avoid disappointment.
Making Otherwise is presented by Ingrid Jones and the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis in partnership with Critical Distance as a part of CDCC’s 2026 Study Hall season.
Space is limited, please REGISTER HERE