What do you do with yourself when you visit a gallery? Do you disappear or do you take up space? Moving from virtual worlds to real live bodies, this episode, the first of a two-part series on bodies, considers our sense of self, whether we dissolve ...
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Two artists take two different approaches to using their own bodies in their work. Suzy Lake treats hers as a medium to dramatize the construction of the self, while Deirdre Logue emphasizes our material and sensory selves. Both wrestle with the phys...
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Conflicting accounts of the past provide one way of thinking about Canada’s Sesquicentennial. These stories are tied to the land and link the pre-colonial past of Indigenous peoples to a future threatened by environmental crisis. Art, among oth...
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For those of us who haven’t made it into the history books, family photo albums are our only visual record of the past century. As analogue photography becomes obsolete, museum exhibitions reveal the ways these documents bring hidden histories ...
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Art collector turned artist Ydessa Hendeles creates expansive installations of antique objects that set the scene for a consideration of how the past is remembered, forgotten, and invented. In each case, history is concerned with the present as mu...
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From textile art about domestic lives bound by work and family, to art from an isolated artists residency that evokes a feeling of displacement, this video explores belonging and how it is rooted in a place we call home. Filmed at the Gladstone Ho...
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The margins of a city reflect demographics as much as they describe geography. When the art scene shifts from downtown to the suburbs, a similar shift in who gets shown is seen. Filmed at the Art Gallery of York University in October 2017.

The white cube has long been a privileged place for artists to call home, but what happens when they take up residence online and display themselves, their work, and more on Instagram? This episode looks at two radically different venues for contempo...
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No one is one thing. We each contain multitudes. And while some might be troubled by our mongrel natures, the artists in this episode celebrate identity as an intermingling of history, circumstance, and culture. Filmed at Matter Gallery in December 2...
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The privileged position of humans in nature has been put into question at this time of environmental crisis. The art in this episode reflects that re-thinking and hints at the possibility of reciprocity. Filmed at OCAD U Onsite Gallery and Critical D...
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This brief introduction to instances of abjection and the real in contemporary art highlights an ongoing concern with materiality and the body over the past half century. Filmed at Koffler Gallery in March 2018.

Philosophical concepts like object-oriented ontology and panpsychism invite a radical reconception of the state of matter. Yoko Ono’s interactive exhibition provides ample opportunity to think differently.