Artists & Curators
The definition of an artist has gone through huge paradigmatic shifts in response to social and technological change. Perhaps it is most fitting to say that there is no one definition that covers everything artists do. But far from being unsatisfactory, this vagueness is maybe the most important part of the job description, because it leaves open that space of self-determination that makes it so vital as an agent of change. The artist can be seen as a fulcrum between idea and form, an agent of meaning -making, -breaking and/or -preservation, a juggler of significations.
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Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen

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Helsinki based artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen initiated the Complaints Choir project, which invites people to sing about their complaints together. The first Complaints Choir was organized in Birmingham (UK) in 2005. After the event became a surprise success, Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen have been invited to initiate complaints choirs all around the globe. Soon thereafter they initiated the Complaints Choir of Helsinki, the Complaints Choir of St. Petersburg and the Complaints Choir of Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg.

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Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak

steele_tomczakPrior to the collaboration of Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, both were known as prolific and industrious artists. Steele launched her artistic career in 1974 with the video Birthday Suit - with scars and defects, which has become a seminal video in the canon of works dealing with body art. Steele’s work in the 1980s moved from highly personal and intimate videos towards lengthier works dealing with contemporary social issues such as The Gloria Tapes (1980), in which Steele herself intelligently and sympathetically portrays a pregnant woman who learns how to affect change in her own life whilst navigating troubling familial problems and difficult social service bureaucracies. Tomczak worked as a photo/video artist in Vancouver at the artist-run centre Pumps and first collaborated with Steele on the 1983 video In the Dark.

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South Asian Visual Arts Centre

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The South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC—formerly the South Asian Visual Arts Collective) was established in 1997 by a group of artists who programmed for Desh Pardesh, a multi-disciplinary arts festival that ran in Toronto from 1988 to 2001. SAVAC is an artist-run centre that focuses on promoting contemporary visual art representing the South Asian diaspora, but its work also includes audio projects, community workshops, and panels that result from collaborations with artists, galleries, and other arts organizations.

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Ana Teixeira

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Ana Teixeira, an artist based in São Paulo, Brazil, produces drawings, photography, videos, installations, and carries out public "street actions" in numerous European and South American cities. In 2008 Teixeira spent two months in Toronto for a joint residency and exhibition with Canadian artist Anne Fauteux at Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition, titled "Thank you, come again! / Obrigado, volte sempre! / Merci, revenez bientôt!" brought together two of Teixeira’s projects: "Listening to Love Stories" and "I Lend You My Eyes."

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