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To Life's Thread
Shannon Garden-Smith \ Nava Messas Waxman \ Angel Callander June, 2025 Performative gesture; tracing the water along the philosopher's walk, Toronto June 2025 Performative gesture; To Life's thread.
Aug 25, 2025


Zeno’s Paradox: collective reading
Experimental documentry film, Inspired by a reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s Rita and the Rifle. Screening; Theatre Agora, September 2024 Danny Atari, Daniella Vinitski Mooney & Nava Messas Waxman This piece is a part of the Just Meeting / Doctes Assemblées series. If you want to see the other projects curated by TheatreAgora.ca, click here.
Aug 8, 2025


The Rituals of a Moving Body
a two-part film program on dance, choreographic movements, and somatic gestures from York University’s 16mm archive. York University, Centre for Film & Theatre March, 6th, 2025 at 6pm Curated by Luka Kuplowsky, Dhvani Ramanujam, and Nava Messas Waxman live performance by Noriko Yamamoto. . The Rituals of the Moving Body is a two-part film program on dance, choreographic movements, and somatic gestures from York University’s 16mm archive. Spanning films from the 1940s-1980s,
Aug 4, 2025


Peace Statue: A Tribute
This event is presented by mihyun maria kim, Nava Messas Waxman, Marc Nair, and Joshua D. Pilzer. Organized by Hong Kal & Nava Messas Waxman. November 12th, 2024, 2-5 pm Created by artists Kim Seo-Kyung and Kim Eun-Sung, the Statue of the Girl for Peace commemorates the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, often euphemistically called "comfort women," during the Asia-Pacific War from the early 1930s to 1945. An estimated 200,000 young girls and women from colonized an
May 12, 2025


The Guide to Speculative Meteorology
An Exercise in Speculative Method Making | The n-D::StudioLab Field Speculative Meteorology: Weather Channeled emerges from a series of...
May 12, 2025
Choreographies of Movement
Hannah Bullock | Shannon Garden-Smith | Laura Grier | Luke Kuplowsky | Nava Messas-Waxman | Cleo Sallis-Parchet | Ayse Karabag | Kezia Hall Making Possible worlds. Choreographies of Movement is an invitation for multiplicity bound by care, mutual responsibility, and radical practices of community building. It calls for a dismantling of colonial, capitalist, patriarchal, and ableist narratives through movement.[→add space here] Natalie Loveless states that "the crafting of a r
May 23, 2024


eNmotion (2023)
eNmotion is a collaborative research project that explore notions of experiential continuity through audiovisual interactive systems in performance installation. Writing: Choreographies of Mediation Part of the Vertical Studio 2023, n::D Studio Lab, under the direction of professor Mark-David Hosale
Jul 15, 2023


Embody the Language
Embody the Language is a Scenic Research in the process of language body initiated by Ameyalli Gutierres . Project in collaboration with...
Oct 14, 2021


Motherboard
Experimental film essay The Motherboard: CADN 2021 Annual Conference April 23d-24th The 2021 Contemporary Art Design and New Media Art Histories conference is based around the theme of the “Motherboard” as broadly conceived as a methodology, a theoretical framework, and a tangible object that produces the intangible. A motherboard, the rudimentary circuitry of a personal computer, is a technology that many of us unknowingly intimately interact with on a daily basis yet often
Sep 25, 2021


Creative Native connects, empowers Indigenous youth in pandemic - Program pivots to online format
The Creative Native project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Ministry of Ontario’s Skills Catalyst Fund, along with...
Jun 9, 2021


DeSpirit Residency
DeSpirit. Performative research, residency at the Lilach Pnina Livne , Jaffa. Eden Kramer Ella Gill Michael Yalon Michiru Shin ...
May 28, 2021


Motherboard
The Motherboard: CADN 2021 Annual Conference April 23d-24th The 2021 Contemporary Art Design and New Media Art Histories conference is...
Apr 24, 2021
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