Curated by Kiera Boult
April 1st – 19th, 2025
Vtape, Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space
4th floor, 401 Richmond St. W. suite 452
Tuesday – Saturday 12-5 pm EDT
Opening reception: Thursday, April 3rd, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Artist talk Monday, April 14th, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Vtape and Images Festival proudly present This Could Be You: 15 Years of Zeesy Powers, a survey tracing the artist’s performance works and explorations in emergent media. Her introspective, funny, and irreverent examinations of external systems of power are experienced through intimate one-on-one environments. By revealing the worst-case scenario behind our tools of convenience and consumerism, Powers invites the question, “Is this all a cynical joke we have walked into, guided by our history and likes? Or is she inviting us to imagine an alternative where digital tools are neutered of their capitalist drive and redirected toward the commons?”
Zeesy Powers’ work explores how the unstated rules of society shape our daily experiences. She works across platforms creating interactive works that use and parody technology. Powers has been an artist-in-residence at CCA Kitakyushu (Japan), Palomar5 (Berlin), the Banff New Media Institute, Studio XX (Montreal), and the Toronto Public Library. In 2018 she was named a Chalmers Fellow. She holds a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Toronto and is a Research Coordinator at University Health Network.
Image credit: This Could Be You, Zeesy Powers (2017)
