Peter Pakesch
Peter Pakesch (July 16, 1955 in Graz, Styria) began studying architecture, but also was active early on as an artist. His first experiences as an exhibition curator were gathered in the Forum Stadtpark in Vienna from 1976 to 1979 and at the steirischerherbst. Time spent studying in New York in 1980 yielded important encounters and involvement in activities […]
Umbereen Inayet
Umbereen Inayet, MSW, is a playwright, social worker and prolific arts programmer. With a background in Cultural Anthropology, Women’s Studies and a Master in Social Work, she has worked on arts events for the City of Toronto including 175th Anniversary, Winterlicious, Doors Open, Canada Day, Pan Am, Cavalcade and the Indian International Film Awards. She […]
Tim Durfee
Tim Durfee‘s interdisciplinary architecture studio produces work at all scales, with a particular interest in discovering forms of design relevant for life now. In 2015 he was named one of “Fifty Under Fifty: Innovators of the 21st Century” by a jury of leading architects and educators. His exhibition/installation “Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City” (co-curated with […]
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is an award-winning producer of over sixty new Canadian performance works with companies including Nightswimming, Mammalian Diving Reflex, DVxT Theatre, the late Paul Bettis’ Civilized Theatre, VideoCabaret and numerous independent artists. She has produced national and international tours and was Industry Series Producer for the 2008 (Vancouver), 2009 (Ottawa) and 2010 (Kitchener-Waterloo) Magnetic […]
Vivien Abrams Collens
Vivien Abrams Collens is an artist living in New York whose abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and installations reference contemporary architecture and urbanism. She has received fellowships to Yaddo, MacDowell, and other artist residence programs.Her work has been exhibited throughout the US, and is in museum, corporate, and private collections. Her recent large scale painted architectural […]
Ben Kinsley
Ben Kinsley’s projects have ranged from choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View, directing surprise theatrical performances inside the homes of strangers, organizing a paranormal concert series, staging a royal protest, investigating feline utopia, collecting put-down jokes from around the world, and planting a buried treasure in the streets of Mexico City (yet to […]
Lynn Gamwell
Lynn Gamwell teaches the history of art, science, and mathematics at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her books include Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind (Cornell, 2000), which was awarded the Gradiva Prize (for “Best Historical Writing”) by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She has described the […]
Keren Moscovitch
Keren Moscovitch is a multi-media artist who explores intimacy, structures of desire and the ways in which the sexual and the spiritual intersect. She regularly collaborates with other artists to dissect the ways in which relationships are built, and identity is formed. Keren lives and works in New York City where she teaches at the […]
Catherine Wagner
For over thirty years Catherine Wagner has been observing the built environment as a metaphor for how we construct our cultural identities. She has examined institutions as varied as art museums, science labs, the home, and Disneyland. Ms. Wagner’s process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti calls “the systems people create, our love […]
Anders Sletvold Moe
Anders Sletvold Moe’s artistic research is focused on painterly issues that extend beyond the painting per se, but also on the spatial environments in which art is exhibited. He builds on the legacy of minimalist artists who challenged the relation between artworks and their physical contexts. Many of Sletvold Moe’s works are produced quite literally […]