Knowledge.  Who has it?  How is it defined, and valued?  And by whom?   Building on previous dialogical projects with street-involved people,  Linda Duvall and Peter Kingstone elicit these questions and others in their collaborative installation, Living in Ten Easy Lessons. 

For this project the artists approached ten women at a Toronto shelter, asking to be instructed in a skill that the women have mastered, found especially useful, or simply wanted to share. ... {read more}

The exploration of identity gives rise to points of resistance, particularly among those who diverge from the dominant social prescriptions around gender and sexuality. Identifying as queer rejects the binaries of gender and sexuality that shape the patriarchal structures of the social world. Historically considered derogatory, queer has been reclaimed by some LGBT communities as an umbrella term for a spectrum of non-conforming gender identities and/or non-heterosexual orientations. The inclusiveness of the term queer can provide ... {read more}

“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.” —Anthony Trollope

The Quebec student protests of 2012 shone new light onto the challenges facing young people in the context of twenty-first century capitalism. It is now normal, we learned, for graduates in today’s “age of austerity” to enter the workforce carrying five-figure debts. Upon graduating, moreover, these young people encounter far stiffer competition and fewer ... {read more}