Thirza Cuthand and her mother Ruth Cuthand have a candid conversation about Thirza’s last hospitalization for Bipolar Disorder in 2007. While Thirza only knew her manic episode from the inside, Ruth had to deal with caregiving decisions and trying to find help. While they reminisce they also have to reckon with the… ⊕

DBtH! is a silent looping video projection intended for screening on public surfaces in gay neighbourhoods across Canada. It beckons viewers with sensuous displays of queer public affection paired with scrolling text that both provokes and informs. This site-specific work claims public space for queer intimacy and political… ⊕

Rituels Queer created by the collaborative team of Richard E. Bump and Ryan Conrad was filmed over the course of four sessions during 2009 and 2010. The intergenerational team chronicled one couples evolving relationship through various grooming, sexual and boyhood rituals (shaving, bathing, building a fort, etc.) This… ⊕

The memory of Canada’s role during the war in Vietnam is one of neutrality and sanctuary for Americans resisting the draft. But at the same time, our government was selling weapons and supplies for the US war machine – including napalm – and testing Agent Orange on our own soil.The afternoon knows what the… ⊕

Originally produced as part of a site-specific installation: It wasn't the fire created for a storage locker as part of Holding Patterns, group exhibition curated by Art Spin in 2018.This video was installed on a flatscreen monitor in a plastic pillow bag (see photo) amidst other objects from my late grandfather's house. Here… ⊕