September 19, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 pm (doors 6:30 pm)
Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West
Admission free

We’re misled by the momentary span of each individual life, and by technology’s attempt to reduce and define us. We live in conditions actively trying to annihilate populations, and rightly, we protest and resist, and we grieve from our depths. Death inspires fear and awe and heartbreak. It’s the most primal opening into a wildly unknowable place. The data of life, its scents of flesh and blood, and death, are encoded in and created by our bodies, experiences, and technologies. This data pulls us both toward an unknowable future and our most primal ancestral past, with its ancient taboos and drives. Our ephemeral bodies create, carry, filter, and interpret all knowable data, objects, time-codes and thought-forms. Data points us toward historic relics, impressions left by the dead, coded into hard drives, digital records, and the ever-expanding web. What is this afterbody, and how does it soften into the noise of all that is? Program runs approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Featuring works by Jillian McDonald, Rah Eleh, Tusia Dabrowska, emily brandt, Nung-Hsin Hu, Leigh Davis, Christine Cheung, Hanae Utamura, Michelle Levy, Rachel Stevens, Eva Davidova, Benjamin Rosenthal

Co-presented by Vtape, temp. files Video Publishing Cooperative & Saloon Toronto

Image credit: Rah Eleh