Hypercity

Curated by Mitra Fakhrashrafi

"Who defines it, inherits it, wields it... who rents it, tills it, toils for it... who gets expelled from it?" —Ruha Benjamin

An interplay of machines, monsters, medicine, riots and speculative fictions, Hypercity is culmination of a Long Winter residency wherein emerging artists Cassraa, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ, Malik McKoy, Vasuki Shanmuganathan, and Shonee developed their artistic practice for the realm of Augmented Reality (AR). These projects are in conversation with commissioned works by Hiba Ali, Casey Koyczan, and Linda Zhang. Gesturing to the precarity and subversive nature of street art, the AR installations around Dundas West and other corners of the city invite participants to intervene and dream in Toronto’s fraught public space. Read the curatorial essay here.

Accompanying programs: First and Last: Artist Talk with Malik McKoy, Talisman Making Workshop with Vasuki Shanmuganathan, Tea Packet offering by Hiba Ali, Planting Imagination with Linda Zhang.

Presented by Long Winter