A Learning Exchange with Toronto Biennial of Art and the OCAD U Library
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A Learning Exchange presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art and the Ontario College of Art & Design University Library. Continuing the long-lasting tradition of DIY print circulation, the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) partners with Ontario College of Art and Design University Library to present a “Learning Exchange” through a selection of shared resources.
Library
Event
Public
Library
Event
Public
A Learning Exchange presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art and the Ontario College of Art & Design University Library
Continuing the long-lasting tradition of DIY print circulation, the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) partners with Ontario College of Art and Design University Library to present a “Learning Exchange” through a selection of shared resources. From September 21st to December 1st, 2024, in both the Library Learning Zone at OCAD U and TBA’s Onsite Library at 32 Lisgar Street, collections of the OCAD U Zine Library and TBA’s Mobile Arts Curriculum (MAC) will be available for visitors and students to explore.
The OCAD U Zine Library was launched in 2007 by artist Alicia Nauta, a student of OCAD U's Printmaking program, and continues to be an ever-growing collection of handmade self-publications now numbering over 5000 online. Learning Zone Coordinator Heather Evelyn selected zines from this vast collection in response to the Biennial’s curatorial key directives of “Joy,” “Precarious,” “Home,” “Polyphony,” “Solace,” and “Coded”—terms that encapsulate how TBA artists’ practices amplify political consciousness and reassert the power of aesthetics in shaping collective existence.
TBA’s Mobile Arts Curriculum is a collection of free learning tools developed by artists, which centre decolonial practices through the arts. Commissioned artists share lived experiences of historically marginalized voices and respond to local and Indigenous contexts of the Tkaronto/Toronto region. This year’s MAC artists are Ange Loft, Charles Campbell, Pamila Matharu, Sameer Farooq, and Tanya Lukin Linklater (whose tool was developed with OCAD U students). MAC Tools are also fully accessible online.
While the Zine Library is for onsite use only, we encourage students, educators, and caregivers to explore the MAC tools further by using them onsite, taking a package home, or accessing them online.
TBA’s public and learning programs are an invitation to more deeply engage with the ideas running through the exhibition Precarious Joys and gather for moments of learning and connection.
For up-to-date information and a full list of programs, please visit www.torontobiennial.org/whats-on.
Top image: Your Tkaronto Companion Guide, as part of the Mobile Arts Curriculum. Activity Booklets. Made in collaboration with Ange Loft and the Talking Treaties Collective. Photo: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.