The Archive

Helsinki based artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen initiated the Complaints Choir project, which invites people to sing about their complaints together. The first Complaints Choir was organized in Birmingham (UK) in 2005. After the event became a surprise success, Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen have been invited to initiate complaints choirs all around the globe. Soon […]

Prior to the collaboration of Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, both were known as prolific and industrious artists. Steele launched her artistic career in 1974 with the video Birthday Suit - with scars and defects, which has become a seminal video in the canon of works dealing with body art. Steele’s work in the 1980s […]

The South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC—formerly the South Asian Visual Arts Collective) was established in 1997 by a group of artists who programmed for Desh Pardesh, a multi-disciplinary arts festival that ran in Toronto from 1988 to 2001. SAVAC is an artist-run centre that focuses on promoting contemporary visual art representing the South Asian […]

Ana Teixeira, an artist based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, produces drawings, photography, videos, installations, and carries out public "street actions" in numerous European and South American cities. In 2008 Teixeira spent two months in Toronto for a joint residency and exhibition with Canadian artist Anne Fauteux at Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition, […]

After a long and successful career as a playwright, Darren O’Donnell began informing his theatrical practice with the participatory performance style that has come to define the performance collective Mammalian Diving Reflex (MDR) and O’Donnell’s idea of Social Acupuncture. Ostensibly a kind of Situationist influenced performance aesthetic, the Social Acupuncture wing of MDR is engaged […]

As one of the first Canadians to publish on the subject of video art, Peggy Gale’s knowledge of the medium is both encyclopedic and incisive. Preferring the title of curator over critic, Gale has nevertheless written extensively on the history and artistic preoccupations of video art and artists over the last thirty years. Gale has […]

Dot Tuer has been writing about video art since the 1980s in the capacity of a theorist and cultural historian. Her work has focused on video art in Toronto, the famous artist-run Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC), technology, memory and global media. In this interview, she discusses her involvement with the Funnel, a […]