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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
In 1972, visual artist/filmmaker Peter Dudar and dancer/ choreographer Lily Eng formed a multimedia partnership named MISSING ASSOCIATES. INVENT A NEW VOCABULARY. START FROM ZERO. OBSERVE AND INCORPORATE INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT. MISSING ASSOCIATES [NOTES 1972] MISSING ASSOCIATES started the first wave of performance art and… ⊕
MisTik follows Cree twins who carry the last of the healthy trees on their backs in hopes of saving the world they once knew.
2024, 05:20 minutes, colour
tapecode 320.10
Canada forcibly incarcerated and dispossessed thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese heritage, relocating them to internment camps, or in the case of the Kobayashi family, a sugar beet work farm in the Canadian Prairies. After accessing the 119 page custodial file of her great-grandfather in the National Archives of Canada,… ⊕
Hamilton’s My Lady is a video installation that draws from comedian and famous Hamiltonian Martin Short’s 2012 comedy special I, Martin Short, Goes Home. The video follows the beloved persona Kiki as she combines autobiography, cultural critique, and comedy to take audiences into the often mocked and stereotyped… ⊕
Letter To My Tribe addresses a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother and I have had numerous arguments which form the backbone of this video essay. Interviews with journalists, activists and a rabbi are interwoven with documentation of actions in the West Bank,… ⊕