IN TRANSIT
A series of installations and activities curated by Mitra Fakrashrafi
In Transit responds to existing and deepening divides in Toronto, especially those shaped by transportation infrastructures with long histories of connecting and fracturing communities. Playing on the language commonly associated with delivery services, In Transit links mobility networks such as roads and rails to questions of work, housing, food security, and other disparate spatial organizings of our lives. Imagining otherwise, artists and organizers Jessica Kirk, L. Akhter, and Sarom Rho use public art to explore how people navigate and confront these divides and the systems which maintain alienation and isolation in the city. Through photography, poetry, installation, and posters, the artworks placed across the city invite visitors and passerby alike to nurture labour justice in the gig economy, in care work, and in our bodies themselves.
On Saturday May 21st, join In Transit artists, organizers and curator for day-long activities in Dentonia Park.
How can we live?
An artist talk and community dialogue with Jessica Kirk, moderated by Jade Nixon
12-2 PM
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Revolutionary Optimism and the Migrancies of Gig Economy Organizing
A workshop with Sarom Rho in partnership with Gig Workers United
2-4 PM
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সাবধান / SHABDHAN (“CAREFUL”)
Interactive installation by L. Akhter
12-4 PM
MITRA FAKHRASHRAFI
Beginning in street art, Mitra Fakhrashrafi is an independent curator interested in creating places of sanctuary and indebted to border abolition organizing. Mapping the legacies of colonial infrastructure and the resistance which has always followed ground and guide her work. Working alongside artists and organizers, she has exhibited in artist-run centres and galleries including Xpace Cultural Centre, the Art Gallery of Guelph, The Textile Museum of Canada, and La Centrale galerie Powerhouse. Mitra is chair of Whippersnapper Gallery’s Board of Director’s and was recently awarded the 2021 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curator’s. In her spare time she listens to music that emerges from Toronto; a since-always queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic city.
HWA-JIN JUN
Hwa-Jin Jun is a visual designer born in the year of the dog. She is a consummate hiking amateur, & enjoys spending her time outdoors tending to her budding backyard vegetable garden. At her core, she is a tenacious explorer & constant learner; Hwa‑Jin adeptly translates her unabashed curiosity & unconventional style into her practice involving interactive digital experiences & process-driven, collage-like designs.
ARTS IN THE PARK
Arts in the Parks encourages community building, enjoyment of local parks, and offers arts events for residents and tourists of all ages. Events take place in parks throughout Toronto, from Etobicoke to Scarborough and North York to the downtown core. Arts in the Parks is a new initiative of the Toronto Arts Foundation, being presented in partnership with Toronto Arts Council, the City of Toronto and Park People.
