2020
REMOTE
RESIDENTS

ABOUT

A Gap Year is a year apart; a break in study, work or routine. While meant to be intentional, often these breaks or ruptures are not of our own choosing, and even when they are we don't all have the luxury of using them for discovery, research or side ventures, as we are intended to. Over the course of a life there are (increasingly) many gaps, breaks or lulls that we come to or move through. Having now arrived at such a point all together, and not by choice, many strange tensions, relationships and crises are emerging, both within and between us.

The goal of the 2020 Remote Residency, beyond being simply a means of working within the limits imposed by the Covid-19 crisis, was to provide opportunities and community to creatives who value experimentation, collaboration and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and whose practices and perspectives may not be reflected within existing residency programs. Residents were encouraged and supported to connect with the other participants of Roundtable and the broader arts community, as well as to stretch the bounds of their own work and practices and to engage with the theme of GAP YEAR in the way(s) that best fit their own bodies of work, research and lived experiences.

Below you'll find information about each of our 2020 Remote Residents, along with links to their work. You can also click here to return to the 2020 Roundtable Hub.

EVELYN AUSTIN

Evelyn Austin’s work is founded on themes of rekindling, permanence and impermanence; exploring intersections of gender, histories, and ecology. She often draws on literary influences and tropes, in service of a reexamination of timelines and social forms. As of recent, she's discovered a greater interest in story telling that examines and disheveles temporal spans. Her work often hinges on the collapse between the obvious and the nonsensical, and the analogies that exist between them.

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KEVIN BROPHY

Kevin Brophy is an artist, writer and educator. Her research-based performative work aims to create visual and textual spaces, objects, and performances that complicate and evaluate how bodies are situated within asymmetrical power structures. She holds a BA from the University of South Florida and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University as a Regina and Marlin Miller fellow. She has participated in residencies and exhibitions internationally, in both established and alternative spaces, both online and off. Last year, she was the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Kansas, an NEA Southern Constellation Fellow at Elsewhere Museum, and a Media Art Fellow at the Kala Art Institute. Most recently, she was the Emerging Digital Artist-in-residence at Penn State University.

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KRISTI CHEN

Kristi Chen is a multidisciplinary visual artist in the realm of sculpture/installation. Her imagery hypothesizes a product between the past and the future where rituals, practices and social behaviors coincide with the natural world. Exploring both ancestral and historical family history during the quarantine, the juxtaposition between Kristi and her great-grandfathers can be effective by displaying the complexities of identity politics from one generation to another. As a Canadian born artist that is living in a post-colonial era, there are gaps between what is carried down and what is eradicated in the art created by her ancestors.

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GABBY COATES
+ SKYLAR EYRE

Skylar Eyre and Gabby Coates are interdisciplinary artists based on Treaty 7 Territory in Southern Alberta, in the place known as Mohkinstsis (colonially called Calgary). Both recent graduates of the Alberta University of the Arts, their collaborative practice focuses on subverting their surroundings through an anti-patriarchal lens; drawing on iconography of the religious institution and collapsing the boundaries between oppression and trasncendence. Activating pop culture character tropes and referencing the dual healing and deteriorating power of dancing, substance use and ideas of worship, Coates and Eyre seek a recalibration for the promotion of radical self-love and acceptance within a social system that renders us as our own worst enemies.

Gabby Coates is a white, primarily heterosexual, blonde, cis-gendered femme, (a white, dick loving, blue eyed, fake blonde, horny horse girl) and interdisciplinary artist. They explore these facets of their identity through the lens of cowboy culture (they make sexy cowgirl art where they objectify themselves as a reclamation tactic from constantly being objectified by cowboys!). Topics of vice, shame and hedonism have been central themes to their practice, and they are specifically interested in the faux-glamour surrounding alcohol consumption (they love to drink cheap beer and a lot of it).

Skylar Eyre is a queer cis-gendered artist whose work primarily explores masculine gender performance, drag, comedy, and queer resistance embodied through visibility.

EMERGENSIES
COLLECTIVE

Emergensies is a multidisciplinary media arts and music collective formed in the summer of 2019 comprised of Adrienne Scott, Simone Northey, and Yang Chen. They are committed to collaboration, exploration, and dialogue between the contemporary media arts and new music. The name ‘Emergensies’ is a play on the career category of emerging artist, and a nod to the feeling of putting out fires while running their own shows.

Yang Chen is a versatile percussionist and educator based in Toronto who is interested in collaborating with artists of all disciplines to create mutually satisfying works. Although trained as a classical percussionist, they are open to any collaboration or experimentation that piques their interest or challenges existing oppressive musical and/or social structures. Manifestations of such collaborations include working with visual artists on multimedia collaborations, commissioning works from composers of marginalized/underrepresented groups, and creating exhibition opportunities for early-career artists. Yang is the drummer for a band of soft-moshing congee queens: @tigerbalme. See more @yangobongo

Simone Northey is an Ottawa-born, Toronto-based animator having obtained her BFA at OCAD University (2014-2018) as recipient of the Project 31 Digital Painting and Expanded Animation Award. Her focus on non-narrative, experimental animation, blends stop-motion and digital techniques. With a strong interest in motion design, her subjects include geometric forms interacting with illusions of 2D and 3D space.

Adrienne Scott is an artist in Toronto, Ontario. She is a graduate of the BFA program at the University of Ottawa (2016) and a recipient of the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Scholarship in photography.

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KAYLA DRZEWICKI

Kayla Drzewicki is an artist, performer and media arts educator who primarily makes interactive works for the desktop environment. Her current body of work repurposes built-in computer software as sites for multi-player games, collaborative art making and digital installations. She has shown in film festivals internationally, and her work recently premiered online at the WRONG Biennale. Her recent line of 10 Mac/PC Screensavers, and her desktop game Cooking with Cherry are both available for free download on her website, https://kayla.world. She is a recent graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art.

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ANDREW FINLAY STEWART

Andrew Finlay Stewart is an artist and curator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. He holds a BFA from OCAD University, and has shown nationally and internationally, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Toronto's Nuit Blanche and Luminato festivals. He has helped produce and curate with the Artists’ Newsstand and is currently part of the Long Winter Toronto team. He frequently works in site-specific video and installation.

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ANGELA GLANZMANN

Angela Glanzmann is a queer settler, artist, and art worker currently based in Toronto. Her practice comprises of video, performance, sculpture, writing, and installation. Her research is currently investigating connections of post-trauma, affect, labour, precarity, and their latent markings on a body. She has exhibited and facilitated projects in galleries and artist-run centres across Canada and has received grants from Canada Council, Arts Nova Scotia, and SSHRC. Currently, Glanzmann is apprenticing in urban beekeeping.

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NICOLE JI SOO KIM

Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and recent graduate of OCAD University (BFA). She emphasizes extremely mundane, ordinary, everyday ideas, actions and objects which are often overlooked through documented performance, installation and text. In investigating her day to day, she also investigates cultural conflicts present within herself and an obsessive desire to find home and comfort in the space she occupies.

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TEE KUNDU

Tee is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator. They mostly draw things. In addition, they often work in social practice, performance, zines, facilitation, etc. They want to be a storyteller, and they want to be helpful. A DIY dabbler, you can find them on instagram @lukitstee or email teekundu@gmail.com.

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LUKE MADDAFORD

Luke Maddaford is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist, writer, curator, and community organizer. Drawing from his own experiences, he is interested in exploring identity, placemaking, and queer histories and futures. Much of his current practice investigates and participates in queer space and culture outside of major metropolitan cities. His work increasingly explores community building and the potential for cross-regional queer networks. He currently lives in Windsor, ON, where he founded LEFT Contemporary, a grassroots studio and exhibition space, and co-edits Off Centre, an online publication.

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PHILIP LEONARD OCAMPO

Philip Leonard Ocampo is a queer Filipino artist and arts facilitator based in Tkaronto, Canada. Ocampo’s multidisciplinary practice primarily involves painting, sculpture, writing and curatorial projects. His work usually explores phenomenon, magic, and memory, using the extraordinary to reconcile and better understand personal and collective experiences, often through a diasporic focus. Ocampo is interested in the allure of the unknown, and through this curiosity, seeks to access aspects of existence that are invisible, intangible, or inhuman in nature.

He holds a BFA in Integrated Media (DPXA) from OCAD University (2018) and is currently a Programming Coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre and one of the four founding co-directors of Hearth, a new artist run space in the city.

"Naghanahap Ako / I am searching" is an online project that acts as an arrangement of interpreted research. Fragments of information available about Filipino culture and personal memory shape this collection of paintings, drawings, visual research. This project is a composite of information in isolated and diasporic circumstances; whatever I can find and whatever I can remember.

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LAURA OHIO

Laura Ohio works at the intersection of artistic production and ethnography. Blending fiction and documentary realism her films communicate the ways individuals use cliches and cultural narratives to self-identify and make sense of our social positioning. In 2016 and 2017 she worked for the Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility in Belgrade, Serbia. She is currently based in Edmonton, AB.

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KITT PEACOCK

Kitt Peacock is a weaver and interdisciplinary artist. Their practice reconsiders place and domestic objects by imagining their futuristic, mythic presence in trans Romani culture. Kitt studied at Concordia University before receiving their BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2019. They also serve as the director of Dane Press, a queer publishing outlet operating on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories.

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