Panel
Community and Collectives
The Panel
Community and Collectives
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Aysia Tse
Panelist
Aysia Tse (she/her) is an emerging artist majoring in Life Studies and minoring in Art and Social Change at OCAD University. Interested in the intersections of community education, art and activism, Aysia is building a socially engaged practice that connects to constructive action within communities. In addition to community arts, her creative practice is currently focused on movement-based and new media work with themes relating to madness, queerness, and diasporic identity.
Annie Wong
PANELIST
Shellie Zhang
Panelist
Shellie Zhang is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. She creates images, objects and projects in a wide range of media to explore how integration, diversity and assimilation is implemented and negotiated, and how manifestations of these ideas relate to lived experiences. Zhang is interested in how culture is learned and sustained, and how the objects and iconographies of culture are remembered and preserved.
Recent and upcoming projects include exhibitions at The Bentway (Toronto), Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver), and the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego. She is a member of EMILIA-AMALIA, an intergenerational feminist reading and writing group, and former member of collectives including Long Time No See and Angry Asian Feminist Gang.
Alana Traficante
Moderator
Alana Traficante is an arts organizer, writer/editor and sometimes curator based in Toronto. She facilitates networks in the artistic community through exhibition, book and space-making initiatives, with an interest in civic engagement, capacity building and mentorship. Alana holds an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University (2016) and a BA in Art History from the University of Toronto (2004). She has worked as the Executive Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography since 2018.