Wards is a site-specific video installation created for Toronto Nuit Blanche 2019, sited in the City Council chambers at the Scarborough Civic Centre.
The wards of Toronto were redrawn for the 2018 municipal election. Admittedly a dry and bureaucratic subject matter, it affected everyone living in this city. This video installation invites viewers into the Council Chambers of Scarborough Civic Centre to consider the ward boundaries of Scarborough as a microcosm for all types of borders.
This project aims to remind Torontonians of the individuals and communities affected by shifting ward boundaries. Borders can be based on geographical features, history, tradition and practicality, or they can be arbitrary. Whether large or small, borders reflect and uphold structures and values of those in power—impositions across lands and between people.
Wards asked Scarborough residents to draw a route to a place within Scarborough that was significant or important to them.
The residents in this video installation navigate landscapes and borders, moving within and through the political and colonial structures that have been drawn over what is still Indigenous land. How does the way we describe the land signify what is important to us, our communities and our history?
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