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Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
Justice (After Margaret Dragu) was first curated by the 7a-11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto in 2016. This video is documentation from that live performance. Justice is an homage not only to those of us who seek freedom from arcane systems of abusive power, but also to artist Margaret Dragu and her… ⊕
Can you die of a broken heart? Kardia is the story of Hope (Mimi Kuzyk) a pathologist who embarks on an unusual journey of reconciliation. Her story begins in the brief instant that her heart stops. With a photograph as her only artifact she sets out to unravel the mystery that surrounds her early life. The film weaves… ⊕
Khobs & Chai is an audio-visual conversation that revisits my childhood memories of baking Middle-Eastern bread with my grandmother. When I was younger, she often shared stories of living through the fall of the monarchy in Iraq, the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war. Despite experiencing difficult and horrifying events, my… ⊕
2021, 12:14 minutes, colour
tapecode 551.31
The Northern Lights shine down on a prairie city with a notorious history of anti-Indigenous racism. Seeing the lights, Stephanie, a 2 Spirit nêhiyaw, sadly remembers her missing mother. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to go see her girlfriend, Jackie. She gets into a cab with a seemingly harmless, but nosey male… ⊕
Land Marks is a video work consisting of twenty-four drawings. Twelve drawings are of the number twenty-seven and the other twelve of the number seventy-two. These are mirrored or reversible numbers. The sequence of drawings occurs thrice. Therefore there are seventy-two numbered drawings, followed by abstracted images which… ⊕