7a*mgr8 [migrate] 2025-26

Presented by Toronto Performance Art Collective (TPAC)

Second season launches October 8, 2025
Online at 7a-11d.ca

TPAC is pleased to announce a new season of the online digital residency project 7a*mgr8. This edition will feature performative works by Santiago Tamayo Soler, Bridget Moser, SF Ho, Pam Hall, Ronnie Clarke, k.g. Guttman, and Claudia Edwards.

7a*mgr8 invites artists from across Canada to create new digital projects for TPAC’s website that are inspired by our public web archive. The previous season (2024) featured works by Sean Lee, Tanya Lukin Linklater and Abedar Kamgari. New projects will launch every three weeks, and remain permanently accessible on our website.

Santiago Tamayo Soler online October 8, 2025
Bridget Moser online October 29, 2025
SF Ho online November 19, 2025
Pam Hall online December 10, 2025
Ronnie Clarke online January 7, 2026
k.g. Guttman online January 28, 2026
Claudia Edwards online February 18, 2026

Performances live by animating bodies, and by the way a work’s gestures and images get taken up in daily life, evolving and adapting to new situations and contexts. 7a*mgr8’s creative residents enter into dialogue with the documents and performances in our archive: to call attention to key and still relevant ideas and approaches; to intervene in and enrich the works’ ongoing histories; to make space for new perspectives; and, in essence, to explore how performance impulses can migrate through different media and expanding communities.

Video Still from Santiago Tamayo Soler’s SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR: Rituales para Invocar el Agua.

Santiago Tamayo Soler’s SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR: Rituales para Invocar el Agua
Online from October 8, 2025

SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR: Rituales para Invocar el Agua is inspired by François Morelli’s 2018 performance for the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Mari usque ad Mare / D’un trou d’eau à l’autre / Piss and Vinegar. Performed by Javi Fuentes Bernal, the video unfolds in a dystopian Bogotá, tracing the passage of a solitary figure through nine abandoned downtown fountains. Each stop becomes part of a search for water, guided by improvised ritualistic gestures and prayer. Using some of Morelli’s original performance materials, SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR: Rituales para Invocar el Agua explores digitization of performative actions through looping, fragmentation, and morphing to construct long, slow, and meditative scenes.

San Isidro Labrador — Saint Isidore the Labourer — was a Spanish farmer canonized in 1622 who is revered as the patron saint of farmers and labourers. Across the Americas, he is invoked during times of drought with prayers that the rains may fall and the land may be restored. His veneration has also been absorbed into syncretic traditions, where figures imposed through colonial Catholicism have been re-appropriated and re-signified. In Colombia, devotion to saints often moves beyond formal Catholic practice, merging with popular rituals, magic, and everyday forms of spirituality to form a living system of belief shaped by resilience, adaptation, and layered inheritances.

About the Artist

Santiago Tamayo Soler (he/him) is a Colombian-Canadian artist based in Montréal whose practice primarily unfolds through video. With a background in performance art and film, he holds a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. His work focuses on world-building, creating digitally constructed universes interwoven with archival materials such as video, photography, and found online imagery. Through these virtual environments, he reflects on Latin American identity from a diasporic perspective, often using the visual language of video games, telenovelas, and digital cartography as narrative frameworks. These formats become portals for speculative storytelling, imagining futures rooted in radical fantasy. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Art and/or Game: Symbiosis or Dissonance? at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris (2023), A psionic hope, an astonishing dream at Trinity Square Video in Toronto (2023), and Prémonitions: Immersions & Récits with Massivart + Chromatic Festival in Montréal (2023). His work Recado was featured in Sunrise, Sunset at Bradley Ertaskiran in Montréal (2023). His first solo exhibition, Veneno en la Sangre, opened at Centre Clark in January 2025. Tamayo Soler received the 2023 EDAA Emerging Digital Artists Award presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video. He was the 2024 artist in residence at the Montréal Fine Arts Museum as part of Impressions and has participated in residencies at Dazibao (2022, online) and the PHI Foundation (2021). In May 2024, he was named a laureate of the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award 2025, with an accompanying exhibition at the MNBAQ in February 2025 presenting his most recent work, Postales.

About TPAC

Toronto Performance Art Collective is a not-for-profit, artist-driven collective best known as the curators and producers of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, English Canada’s oldest ongoing biennial of performance art. In non-festival years the collective supports a variety of other performance-based projects.

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This project made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council. Support for the first edition came from the Ontario Arts Council.