Speculative Bodies

Exhibition Public

An Exhibition by students in Life Studies, INTM LIFE Specialization

100 McCaul St. 4th floor
100 McCaul St. 4th floor
Speculative Bodies

Speculative Bodies:

 

An Exhibition by students in Life Studies, INTM LIFE Specialization

  • February, 14 to 24, 2025

  • Ada Slaight Gallery
    2nd floor, 100 McCaul St

 

JOIN US FOR THE CLOSING BREAKFAST! 

  • Monday, February 24, 10 to noon

  • Coffee and pastries in the Ada Slaight Gallery and Transit Space

 

Student artwork

 

The Life Studies Specialization in INTM presents Speculative Bodies, a multi-disciplinary exhibition showcasing student works that navigate the intersections of personal lived experience, nature, and more-than-human relationships. This exhibition is a vivid exploration of individual expressions shaped by embodied knowledge and collaborative processes.

 

Working across disciplines, students in Life Studies bring together biomaterials, field observations, and class-driven collaborations to engage with themes of physicality, temporality, and social transformation. Their creative works contemplate future imaginaries of the self and collective, while reflecting on the enduring impacts of colonization, displacement, and ecological entanglements.

 

Speculative Bodies opens a dialogue between diverse worldviews, weaving together languages, kinships, and narratives that speculate on alternative ways of being. The exhibition reflects students' inquiries into construction and reconstruction, revealing practices of reciprocity and interconnection. Through drawing upon artistic, literary, scientific, and philosophical approaches, the featured works highlight a spectrum of experimental and process-driven making.

 

Join us for Speculative Bodies, where art becomes a site of exchange and speculation, inviting new narratives of coexistence and mutuality.

 

Participating Artists: Francesca Bertoglio, Amalia Comello, Alessio Duclaux, Sophie Dunkley, Faezah Faruqui, Jenna Fitzgerald, Nadine Hajjaj, MJ McPherson, Vanna Nguyen, Emma Prud'homme O'Neill, Jamie Rivera, RT

 

Collective artwork by artists in the Winter LIFE 2002/3002 class: Sania Baghaei Naeini, Amalia Comello, Jamie Rivera, RT, Xiaolin Xu, Samantha Basek, Alycia Cardamone, Joseph Catalano, Day, Heike Elliott, Malaya Lalog, Jamilah Lambert-Jackson, Yandongke Li, Anjali Malhotra, Christina Michael, Dani Salvatore, Alex Vollans, Selina Xiao, Christian Quissy, led by faculty Sarah Mihara Creagen and Julius Poncelet Manapul

 

Curated collectively by LIFE Faculty: Amy Swartz, Julius Poncelet Manapul, Sarah Mihara Creagen, and Natalie Majaba Waldburger

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