‘Exchange Piece’ explores collaboration as an act of care through an exchange between 10 early career and senior artists and designers working in pairs to explore how care in the creative process affects the way we relate and position ourselves to what we create. 

The exhibition features the work of Khadija Aziz, Jennifer Chan, Leigh Dotey, Laura Kay Keeling, Kristine Mifsud, Moira Ness, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Amy Wong, and Florence Yee and Arezu Salamzadeh as the Rice Water collective, who explore concepts of care and come together in pairs to collaborate on an exchange piece.

This exhibition is curated by DesignTO, co-presented with Harbourfront Centre, and supported by Lemay.

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Care | Past, Present, Future

Jennifer Chan and Moira Ness

How we care for each other, care for ourselves, and how we let others care for us is changing. Now, more than ever, we are rethinking how we care. During this ongoing pandemic, we all have to adapt.

Some of us are holding on to what we valued in the past, some of us are living in the present, some of us are imagining the future, and some of us are doing all of this at the same time. In our own ways, we are all in an ever-changing process of surviving, changing, grieving, healing and recovering.

'Care | Past, Present, Future' is a living installation that will be updated throughout the duration of the DesignTO Festival and online exhibition. Visitors are invited to contribute to the artwork by submitting to a questionnaire. Artist Moira Ness will interpret and transform their responses into a visual text-based image. Just like how Moira and Jenn see care as ever-changing, this installation will continue to change too.

The making of a pendant

Monday, January 25, 8-9pm EST on Twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/craftsabyss

Join 'Exchange Piece' artists Kristine Mifsud, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky for a live, surreal DIY/ASMR hybrid copper crafting performance, connected to their collaborative video project 'The Element'.

The making of a box

Monday, February 1, 8-9pm EST on Twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/craftsabyss

Join 'Exchange Piece' artists Kristine Mifsud, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky for a live, surreal DIY/ASMR hybrid copper crafting performance, connected to their collaborative video project 'The Element'.

Link to questionnaire

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