In transit

Curated by Mitra Fakhrashrafi

In Transit responds to existing and deepening divides in Toronto, especially those shaped by transportation infrastructures with long histories of connecting and fracturing communities. Playing on the language commonly associated with delivery services, In Transit links mobility networks such as roads and rails to questions of work, housing, food security, and other disparate spatial organizings of our lives. Imagining otherwise, artists and organizers Jessica Kirk, Sarom Rho, and L. Akhter use public art to explore how people navigate and confront the systems which maintain alienation and isolation in the city. Through photography, poetry, installation, sound, and design, the project invites visitors and passerby alike to nurture labour justice in the gig economy, in care work, and in our bodies. Photo documentation by Quinn Buckler.

Accompanying programs: How can we live? artist talk and community dialogue with Jessica Kirk, moderated by Jade Nixon and Revolutionary Optimism & the Migrancies of Gig Economy Organizing: a Workshop with Sarom Rho in partnership with Gig Workers United.

Presented at Mayworks Festival from May 1 to May 31, 2022.

Press

Scarborough queer artists challenging oppression through art by Sarah Nafisa Shahid in Spring Magazine