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Welcome to the homepage for ROUNDTABLE'S 2021 ONLINE EXHIBITION. Our twelve REMOTE RESIDENTS have all developed work and research on the theme of RISK which can be found below.

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The Theme of Risk (1A)

We have witnessed both the concept and reality of RISK take on new meaning over the course of our current pandemic, and through the events of the last few years more generally. Our 2021 Residents were aksed to consider how their relationship to and experience of RISK has transformed, and we invite you to consider the same while viewing / interacting with their work.

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How does RISK influence you? Does RISK take on different forms depending on circumstance, person, or community? In what ways is the feeling of RISK sustained, or depleted, or affected? Do you embrace, avoid, embody, or resist RISK? What RISKs do you feel are on the horizon?

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Taking an expansive view of this year's theme, our 2021 Residents have created the work / research which is found below.

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Sarah Boo (2A)

Sarah Boo is a Toronto-based multimedia artist and is currently enrolled in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University. Her work combines video, sound, electronics, and code in pursuit of strange dream feelings and intimate abstractions of the systems that surround her. Having spent her formative years immersed in virtual worlds and special interest internet forums, much of her time is spent thinking about disentangling corporate presence from digital bodies, the ethics of slowing down, and digital placemaking.

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Daura Campos (2B)

Daura Campos is a Latinx, self-taught, lens-based artist and curator based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her photographic practice challenges traditional image-making processes, revealing itself as more than a meta-commentary with a subtext that prompts broader conversations on the implications of existing in a dissident body.

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Her "What the Luck" series was awarded by Adolescent and exhibited in Experimental Photo Festival, Visual Space, Make Room, and has been displayed on billboards in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto. Earlier works have been published globally on Curated by Girls, Container Love, The Soon Project, and others.

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Rebecca Casalino (2C)

Rebecca Casalino is an artist, writer and curator based in Hamilton, Ontario (Treaty 3) on the land of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe First Nations people. She is a queer Italian-Canadian settler, maintaining her practice through deeply personal collaborations in her community and sheer willpower. Working in multiple making, video, sculpture, prose and drawing Casalino channels her lived experience through her quirky, often deadpan, humour. Casalino completed her BA in Studio Art, with a minor in English, at the University of Guelph in 2017 and is a recent graduate from Ontario College of Art and Design with an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice.

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Benjamin Chang (2D)

Benjamin Chang is a 3D artist and architectural designer working with digital media, spatial perception, geometry, and ritual practices as storytelling devices that question our innate ontological dilemmas. Deeply invested in the social and philosophical vision of Cosmopolitanism, his practice aims to dissolve the culturally imposed boundaries embedded in the superstructure of materialism. Perplexed by the representations of reality, he is on a journey to catalog the matrix. Chang holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Design from OCAD University.

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Marina FAW (2E)

Marina's practice reflects on the correlation of ethereality and material experiences. The relationship between the palpable and the untouchable. How actions are manifested, from imagination to physicality.

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The duality of such, and how mechanical and second nature we access it. The possibility of creation, the process and narrative of the in-between of this duality is where FAW's work lays. Inspired by nature and day to day objects, she creates visual works that reflect such dualities and explore throughout different mediums its possibilities. Narrative and process, where the ethereal is connected to the emotions, coexisting in a mashed “reality”.

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Miles Forrester (2F)

Miles Forrester is a poet and artist living in Toronto Ontario. He received his MA for Creative Writing at Concordia University his thesis project, Way Out Belleville, emotionally mapped his hometown across a span of equilateral triangles. has been published in Acta Vicatoriana, Headlight Anthology, and Bad Dog Review.

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Galen Macdonald (2G)

Galen Howell Macdonald is an artist and arts organizer based in Tkaronto/Toronto whose work currently straddles hand craft, kinetic sculpture, poetry, and new media. He uses whatever tools are available to make delicate and limited tools for communication. His work has been shown at School for Poetic Computation (NYC), Magic, the Gallery (Austin, TX), and Long Exposure Festival (Toronto). He is currently a co-lead at School for Poetic Computation.

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Louie Mangialardi (2H)

Louie Mangialardi is an interdisciplinary artist primarily working in sculpture and print. He has an interest in the ideas of index, sense perception, dreams, and the inseparability of things. Graduating from the Printmaking and Publications BFA program OCADU in 2020, He is currently a founding member of the Mudcat Artist Collective.

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Tristan Sauer (2I)

Tristan Sauer is a New Media Artist working with physical computing, wearables technology, and most recently bio art. Sauer's practice is critically focused on technology and capitalism, viewing their relationship as a potential modern-day Pandora's box. He is interested in the intersections between our digital and physical worlds, and how technology affects the various facets of human existence. Often expressed through his own identity as an Afro-Canadian, Sauer explores these topics through both an Afro-futuristic and Afro-Pessimistic lens.

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Christie Shen (2J)

Christie Shen is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Waterloo. Her practice presents and explores themes of family and culture, memory, and preservation through both text and image-based work. By mining from her own history and relationships, her work is a personal exploration into the shifts of identity and belonging based on the loss or gain of cultural experiences and stories. She is interested in how intergenerational knowledge is learned and preserved, and questions what should be passed on and remembered. In the exploration of familial and intimate bonds based on sentimentality, she attempts to understand the ways in which nostalgia can colour who we are to each other and how we remember.

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You can find more of her work at www.christieshen.com or on IG at @strangemornings.

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Kassandra Walters (2K)

Kassandra Walters is a multidisciplinary artist born in Tkaronto/Toronto and currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She combines her love of materials, mostly non traditional, into rich, layered, ephemeral works. Her current work references her identity as a second generation Canadian and experiences of living with mental illness. Heavily inspired by the everyday, she is constantly experimenting with new materials and techniques to fulfill her ideas conceptually.

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Her work has been shown in galleries and festivals throughout Toronto and Montreal. Most recently, Kassandra has put together a publication showcasing her current works titled "On Coming to Terms" and will be exhibiting her piece, “for my family”, in January 2022 at FOFA Gallery, Montreal, QC.

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Lingxiang Wu (2L)

Lingxiang Wu is a Chinese queer visual artist currently based in Toronto, and he received his MFA degree in Interdisciplinary Master’s of Arts, Media, and Design at OCAD University in 2019. Wu explores contemporary image culture that is integrated seamlessly between urban and digital spaces, attempting to grasp the reasons behind those fleeting moments of displacement. Through experimentation with photographic collage, video, animation, and installation, Wu uses artistic methods as visual detours. Re-imagining the digital/urban space into visual experiences where viewers can look into and dwell within, encouraging the moments of contemplative lingering.

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