CYOA Rhythms was exhibited at the Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain as part of the New Media Program within the 2014 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival. Currently the largest film Festival in the English Caribbean, it showcases works from the English, French, Spanish, Dutch Caribbean and the region's diaspora.
Confessions of an Insomniac (a multimedia adaptation of the Global Treatise assemblage piece) was included in the INSERT2014 symposium's research cell, New Models for Common Grounds. INSERT2014 ran from Jan 31-Feb 28, 2014 at Mati Ghar, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi and was presented by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation. Designed to be a constellation of conversations, the exhibition and symposium was an attempt to renew focus on the artist as a generator of ideas— examining the social, cultural and geopolitical role of an artist in redefining cultural infrastructure in New Delhi. The month-long event was billed in the media as an intellectual contrast to the overly commercial India Art Fair running concurrently. INSERT2014 garnered an audience of 10,000 people and cut across a swathe of artist, academic, government/ public sector and diplomatic circles in New Delhi.
CYOA Rhythms video installation was exhibited as part of The Carnival Project at the Littlefield Eco-Club, (Gowanus) Brooklyn, New York, hosted by Batala NYC on May 4, 2014. Part of a larger global education project, Batala New York is a community platform for music education, cultural integration community interaction. Comprised solely of women, the drumming ensemble plays music commonly heard in the streets of Salvador de Bahia in northeastern Brazil. The Carnival Project was the organization's inaugural annual event, reinterpreting New World carnival themes through a contemporary fusion of samba-reggae, 50 batala drummers, bagpipers, New Orleans brass and my video installation.
My essay, "Taking Flight: Perspectives from the Depths of an Ideas Factory" was included in the Sarai 09: Projections reader. The reader series was developed by Sarai, the media arm of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. An exhibition of the same name was held in support of the reader at the Devi Arts Foundation, Gurgaon, New Delhi between Aug 2012 and Apr 2013. The Sarai Readers were published once a year. Projections was the 9th volume of a 9 volume series. Each issue was structured around a specific theme and invited writing by practitioners, academics, activists and artists from diverse fields.
The Annual (2011) was a juried group exhibition at the Living Arts Centre Gallery, Mississauga (Toronto), which featured the Carne Vale video work. The exhibition was presented in collaboration with SAVAC (South Asian Visual Art Centre) and ran between Jul 09, 2011 - Aug 21, 2011. The artworks drew inspiration from a range of everyday experience in contemporary South Asian culture. One of the themes to emerge was a desire to explore and contemplate labour-intensive and process-based practices in examining issues and ideas relevant to global transnational societies -- resisting the instantaneous impulse of the digital age.
Participated in the pre-selection jury for the IPF's Web Series Program, evaluating and providing feedback to creators on a cross-section of applications. The program provides equity financing for content creators of original Canadian drama series for the web or mobile platforms.
Had the privilege of serving as a juror for the Toronto Arthouse Film Festival, where I provided an evaluation of the current year's programming for the purpose of allocating awards.
Participated in an advisory committee to review media arts organizational multi-year funding applications for a small group of artist-run centres.
Participated in a jury committee to review and allocate funding for media arts organizational project funding applications.
CYOA Rhythms was exhibited as part of the IGNITE exhibition series. Commissioned by the City of Mississauga as part of a group exhibition for the Pan Am & ParaPan Am Games, the work was installed at Mississauga's Celebration Square on Aug 3 & 10 from 8am - 8pm. Hosted by the Art Gallery of Mississauga, an artist talk on "Ideas of Cultural Citizenship" related to the work, was held Jul 27 via Twitter chat at #sharethelovesauga.
Supported by a SSHRC (CGS-M) scholarship, my master's research is now available at doi.org/10.20381/ruor-30678.
"Creating in Shifting Sands: Tanvir's Agra Bazar and Wu's Li'er Zaici " is a comparative study of two South Asian and Taiwanese theatre productions. Research was conducted as part of the MA World Literatures & Cultures program at the University of Ottawa.
Accepted a board role with C Magazine (and C The Visual Arts Foundation), a Canadian contemporary art + criticism periodical currently emphasizing Canadian diasporic & BIPOC artists and practices oscillating between Canadian and international art dialogues.
Received a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M SSHRC) in support of my masters research. The scholarship is a prestigious award designed to support high-performing students in their academic research, in the social sciences and humanities.
An installation in development, file no. ic54-0015s, is supported by a Canada Council for the Arts project grant as part of their Explore and Create program. The interactive multi-channel video installation will be developed over the next three years, and rendered in Touchdesigner.
“Biology Wafts: Heterotopic Space and the Posthuman in Anicka Yi’s Works" was published in the 8th edition of Confetti, a journal published by the University of Ottawa's Dept of Modern Languages & Literatures and the World Literatures & Cultures program. The essay focuses on Anicka Yi’s Life is Cheap (Guggenheim 2017) and In Love with the World (Tate Turbine Hall 2021-22) exhibitions.
An exhibition I worked on as a production volunteer with Philip Beesley Architect Installations/ Living Architecture Systems Group, was a touring exhibition called Nebula Prototype: Liminal Architecture. The exhibition toured several European venues -- Vienna, AT (2018-19), Frankfurt, DE (2019), Hamburg, DE (2019-2020), and Cognac, FR (2021-22).
In 2018-2019, I volunteered with Philip Beesley Architect Installations/ Living Architecture Systems Group as a fabrication assistant for a handful of international exhibitions. Futurium Noosphere is one I was credited to have contributed to. It was on display at the Futurium, Berlin from 2019-2021. Philip Beesley creates sculptural environments made of 3D laser printed forms embedded with AI. His approach to structures and space falls within the emerging field of responsive architecture.
