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Charles Street Video welcomes you June 27th, from 1pm - 11pm for our 'Together on Geary' Exhibition.

Featuring presentations; Schools Out!, Zerno, and GOLUS, this curatorial experience will display three artists from our Maker Space program; Ashley Frück Siomos, Kerub, and Dorraa.

- School’s Out! @ 1 to 3:45pm

- ZERNO *Separate performances* @ 4pm and 10pm

- ZERNO with Bike Bike performance outside CSV 9pm

- GOLUS  5 - 7:45 pm

 

School’s Out
by Ashley Frück Siomos

Synopsis: School's Out! is a hybrid film, installation, and live performance work exploring what happens when adulthood becomes a game nobody remembers agreeing to play.
Inside the exhibition, performers dressed in business attire engage in childhood games and playground rituals with unwavering professional commitment. Hopscotch becomes procedure. Sticker charts become performance reviews. Skip ropes, lineups, and recess activities unfold with the solemnity of corporate protocol. Accompanied by a looping experimental film and recurring public interventions, School's Out! transforms play into ceremony, inviting audiences into a world where imagination and conformity are locked in a quiet struggle for survival.

About the Artist: Ashley Frück Siomos is a writer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto. Her work explores intimacy, performance, and the peculiar rituals people invent to survive being human. Blending humour, surrealism, and social observation, she is drawn to the gap between what people feel and what they perform for one another.

Working across film, installation, and live performance, Ashley creates worlds where ordinary behaviours become slightly unhinged: adults take games too seriously, strangers rehearse connection, and systems designed to organize life begin to resemble theatre. Her work examines longing, belonging, and the quiet absurdity of modern existence, treating everyday life as both comedy and confession.


Golus
by Kerub

Synopsis: The GOLUS project combines images of Khrushchevka (prefabricated era social housing from Khrushchev-era Soviet Union) with renders of houses and landscapes from Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky and Odessa Oblast with remixes and archival audio recordings of Jewish Folk Songs in order to imagine a reality in which Antisemitism did not force Jews out of their traditional shtetls and homes in Eastern Europe. Drawing from Doikayt (a Jewish political theory advocating for 'hereness' as opposed to Jewish Nationalist and Zionist theories) the work imagines a Jewish future built upon underground expressions of music, blood ties, and a relationship with the land.

About the Artist: KERUB is meeting of sound: ambience and driving drums; harsh vocals and medieval hymns; traditional folk melodies and hyper modern club music. The Toronto-based, but Vancouver-born singer, producer, and weirdo is influenced by an interaction between internet culture, their classical training, and energetic pop. They create music that sprints between ambient, ethereal pop and unbreakable dance music imbued with the spirit of the underground. Called apocalyptic but playful, KERUB strives to create beauty with an edge, delivering anything from gentle soundscapes, to hard hitting drums that last well into the night.

KERUB’s sophomore album, ‘APHANTASIA’ (July 2025). Self-recorded, produced and mixed, their second full-length is a sonic exploration of love, loss, and youth using the framework of nietzschean reincarnation. Their first collaboration with Montreal and Tehran based label KOPI records, ‘APHANTASIA’ shows KERUB branching out into a sound that's more accessible, but still distinctly their own.

Having started their musical journey with their debut EP, ‘GUARD’ (2018), KERUB quickly began a rapid-fire release schedule of EPs until 2023, when they independently released their debut album, ‘MIN’. A techno-organic take on Jewish mysticism by way of instrumental transgender allegories. KERUB has appeared on the bill of multiple festivals across Canada including: Calgary’s Sled Island (2025) Halifax’s Everyseeker (2023), St John's Lawnya Vawnya (2022), Winnipeg's Cluster Festival (2020 - digital edition), and Vancouver's Queer Arts Festival (2018/2019).

KERUB's work as a visual artist started in 2024 with the creation of their visual album "APHANTASIA" (2025), and was expanded upon via their residency with Charles Street Video in 2026, where they premiered their Quadrophonic AV piece "Cobalt: The Alien Concept of Living" as apart of the Images Festival.


Zerno
by Dorraa

Project Synopsis: A live audiovisual performance. Dorraa will play an electronic set exploring ecological themes — the continuity between human bodies and the living planet, shared patterns across species, the interconnectedness of the Earth as a body we are part of rather than separate from.

Visuals will respond in real time to the music performed: melodic motif detection software will listen for repeating patterns as they emerge in the performance, and grow a tree on screen for each one. Different motifs produce different trees. If a motif falls silent for too long, its tree slowly shrinks back. By the end of the set, only what was sustained remains — a forest shaped by attention and repetition.

About bikebike: bikebike is a Toronto-based instrumental trio — Corey Cosman on bass, Dorraa on keys, Stefan Hegerat on drums. Their sound moves through electro-futurism and groove-driven improvisation, drawing on electronic dance music and IDM while staying rooted in the energy of live performance — with jazz and funk never far from the surface.



About the Artist: Dorraa is the solo project of Toronto-based musician and composer Daria Morgacheva. Trained in classical piano and jazz, she layers live keyboard performance with sampled textures into music that responds to the room — improvising to meet the energy of each moment. Her work has been featured three times on Bandcamp Daily, performed at MUTEK Montréal, and broadcast on Rinse France as part of a MUTEK residency. She has toured Japan and Taiwan, and co-founded Borscht Radio.