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Interspecies City: Hearing and Seeing The City from a Non-Human Perspective

The Bentway

250 Fort York Blvd, Toronto, ON M5V 1A9, Canada Ontario

43.6372992 -79.40710229999999

The Bentway

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This summer, The Bentway presents Beyond Concrete, a series of public art, performances, parties, and conversations. Join us under the Gardiner to explore how Toronto’s unique urban nature and built environment can co-exist, collide, and collaborate. Interspecies City: Hearing and Seeing The City from a Non-Human Perspective Leading artists from the Bentway's Spring/Summer season Beyond Concrete are joined by local practitioners to discuss their sound- and visual arts-based projects which explore the city from the perspective of non-humans. Featuring Alex sheriff, Nerea Feliz and Joyce Hwang (Double Happiness), and Tosca Terán. Moderated by Alex Bozikovic of the Globe and Mail. Presented in partnership with Doors Open Toronto. About the Artists: Alex Sheriff is a Canadian artist with a practice in painting, drawing, sculpture and video. His work deals with recognizing, blurring, and erasing the gap between natural and human history as a way to suggest new viewpoints and meaning in the time of the Anthropocene. Architects and educators Joyce Hwang and Nerea Feliz are the collective Double Happiness. Based out of Buffalo, NY and Austin, TX respectively, their works seek to make visible the under-acknowledged world of the non-human, as active participants of urban life, by attracting and magnifying their presence in shared urban spaces. Tosca Terán is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a confluence of art, ecology and craft. From the Midnight Mushroom Music archives and the Mycelium Martian Dome to fungi-controlled VR experiences, Tosca constructs installations collaborating with nonhuman life, asking people to consider nonhuman sentience and how humans move within and impact the shared environment. Alex Bozikovic is the architecture critic for the Globe and Mail. He is an author or editor of three books: the bestseller 305 Lost Buildings of Canada; Toronto Architecture: A City Guide; and House Divided. He won the 2019 President’s Medal for Media in Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Please Note: Accessible and all-gender washrooms are available on site. This site is wheelchair accessible. This event takes place outdoors and may be cancelled in the event of inclement weather. For more information on The Bentway's summer season, visit thebentway.ca

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Start: 2023-05-28T12:00:00-04:00

End: 2023-05-28T13:15:00-04:00