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It’s December!

A whole new month, and the last of 2021. As we close out the second year of a pandemic, we are grateful to experience the tiniest bit more freedom to celebrate the holidays with our chosen families. Whether you are braving the cold to see your loved ones for celebrations, or spending another holiday season in sweet solitude, we wish you good health, joy, and safety this month.

Exhibitions

November 12 – December 17, 2021
At Tangled Art Gallery – S-124, 401 Richmond St. W, Toronto

“Once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.”
—Thomas King

Indigenous nations from across the globe have been at the forefront for the protection of our environment, our giver of life. With the wonders of our environment and the ability we carry to reshape our future with our own hands fully on display, Sagatay (New Beginnings) calls us to action to protect and fight for the future of our planet’s well being: to come back to our base teachings of love and respect, paying respect to the land and the place we call home. Especially critical at this time due to the urgency in our climate crisis, these installations are altars of reverence for their respective elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water.

Jaene F. Castrillon (Mixed race Indigenous Colombian/Hong Kong Chinese), Danielle Hyde (Mixed Anishinaabe Ojibwe Garden River First Nation, Italian and Ukrainian mix) and Kate Meawasige (Anishnaabe artist from Genaabajing – Serpent River First Nations), each work on Turtle Island, the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

A Tangled Arts and Charles Street Partnership.

INFINITE DISTANCE

Curated by Shani K. Parsons, INFINITE DISTANCE is an online exhibition of fifteen text-based works by ten artist-writers and collectives from across seven cities. Designed to be accessible by default, the exhibition foregrounds experimentation with web-based presentation of artworks in ways that prioritize care in communication — whether through language, interaction, access, collaboration, or reception. Thus embracing the im/possibilities inherent to humanity’s use of language — ever the imprecise tool — to commune across the unfathomable divide between our individual lives, INFINITE DISTANCE assembles and amplifies a multiplicity of voices that refuse to foreclose on communication — with care — as the only way forward toward a more human future.

INFINITE DISTANCE is made possible through the generous funding of the Ontario Arts Council. Thanks also to my local organizational partner, Charles Street Video. For more credits and acknowledgments, please see the exhibition website at infinitedistance.site.

Opportunities

Media Art Creation Grant 2022

Deadline: Monday, January 17th, 2022

CSV is proud to hold it’s third media art creation grant in an effort to support CSV member media art projects.

The funds are intended for production, post-production, and presentation purposes. A single project can receive a maximum of $3,000 in equipment credits, a $500 production materials budget, and a $1,000 artist fee.

Media artists at all levels of experience are welcome to apply.

To be eligible for consideration, the online application must be completed in full. Results will be released by mid February, 2022.

CSV Member Highlight

Rah Eleh is a video, net and performance artist who’s work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Rah’s most recent project is SuperNova, a multidisciplinary video installation informed by her experience as a Canadian-Iranian exilic and diasporic artist. Featuring a series of characters that she has performed as over several years including Fatimeh, Oreo and Coco, these carefully conceived personas pointedly deconstruct ethnic and gender stereotypes.