If Need Be, Art Museum Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
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London Short Film Festival
’Shokouk’ Official Selection
London, UK
Jan 19, 2025
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Bangkok Art Biennale
’Shokouk’ in Group Exhibition
Bangkok, Thailand
Oct 24,-Feb 25, 2025
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Uppsala Short Film Festival
’Shokouk’ Official Selection International Competition
Uppsala, Sweden
Oct 24/25, 2024
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Screening Rights Film Festival of Social Justice
’A Passage’ as part of online program
Birmingham, UK
Oct 17-20, 2024
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‘Shokouk’ Best Video Art and Experimental Film
Tirana International Film Festival
Tirana, Albania
Sept 22-29, 2024
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Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
’Gamodi’ Official Selection Regional Competition
Yerevan, Armenia
July 12, 2024
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War-Torn Ecologies
Film Programme at Mosaic Rooms
London, UK
June 27, 2024
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Launch of Pejvak Monograph ‘If Need Be’
Published by Building Fictions
San Serriffe, Amsterdam, June 6, 2024 / Limestone Books, Maastricht, June 5, 2024
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Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts
Solo Exhibition as Part of Images Festival Presented by VTape
Toronto, Canada
April 1-29, 2024
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Afterall Journal - Issue 55-56
’Between Mean Time’ Essay on Gutta Percha
Winter 2024
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Tampere Film Festival
’Shokouk’ International Competition
Tampere, Finland
March 6-10, 2024
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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
’Shokouk’ International Competition
Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
March 9, 2024
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26th Media City Film Festival
’Shokouk’ International Competition
Windsor, Canada
Nov 9, 2023
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47ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo
’Gamodi’ Official Selection New Directors Competition
São Paulo, Brazil
Oct 19 - Nov 1, 2023
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52nd Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
’Gamodi’ Official Selection National Competition
Montreal, Canada
Oct 8 and 14th, 2023
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REISSUE: Gamodi Review
’Languid becoming in Felix Kalmenson’s Gamodi’ By Casey Wei
Vancouver, Canada
2023
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42nd Vancouver International Film Festival
’Gamodi’ Official Selection Honorable Mention ‘Best Canadian Film’
Vancouver, Canada
Oct 3 and 5th, 2023
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Arkipel 10th Jakarta International Documentary Experimental Film Festival
’Shokouk’ Official Selection
Jakarta, Indonesia
Sept 28, 2023
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Rewinding Internationalism
Group Exhibition
Villa Arson
Nice, France
June 18-Aug 27, 2023
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Obsession
Nida Art Colony
Nida, Lithuania
July 21-Oct 8, 2023
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Overcoming the forms of the outer world
Cineclub EA,
Escola das Artes
Porto, Portugal
June 13, 2023
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like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep
aashra Ashkal Alwan
May-June, 2023
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Sobey Art Award 2023
Pejvak Long-listed
National Gallery of Canada
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my final prayer
Group Exhibition
Art Museum
Toronto, Canada
May 3-July 22, 2023
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Review of Rewinding Internationalism
Mister Motley
Feb 9, 2023
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Histoires Vraies
Group Exhibition
MAC VAL
Paris, France
Feb 4-Sept 17, 2023
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Shokouk, Film Still, 16min
Rewinding Internationalism: The 1990s and Today
Group Exhibition
Van Abbemuseum
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nov 19, 2022-April 30, 2023
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Shokouk, Film Still, 16min
Change Feeling
Pejvak research presentation alongside Ulyana Toporovskaya and Valeriya Kim
Van Abbemuseum
Eindhoven, Netherlands
July 8, 2022
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Still from "Makpal” by Valeriya Kim and Ulyana Toporovskaya
1934
Pejvak alongside Polina Kanis
PAKT
Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 26 - July 31, 2022
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Folding the Landscape: Kitt Peacock
Scholarly Review of ‘Make Breeze’
CMA Journal Issue 11
Simon Fraser University
2022
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A scaffold with, against
Group Exhibition
Art Museum
Toronto, Canada
May 11 - July 30, 2022
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Diving Deep for Light into Darkness
Group Exhibition
Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art
Nanjing, China
March 18-June 5, 2022
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Eurasia - A Landscape of Mutability
Group Exhibition
M HKA
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 8 - Jan 23, 2022
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Decolonize Our Planet Online Film Programme
Shasha
Dec 1-January 31, 2022
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Ac/kademie #3: Place/s of Return
With Elisa Caldana and Fazal Rizvi
Jan Van Eyck Academie
November 17, 2021
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Xenia Benivolski Reviews ‘If Need Be’
Art Agenda
August 2021
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Interview with Subbacultcha on ‘If Need Be’
Subbacultcha.be
July, 2021
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If Need Be
Solo Exhibition of Pejvak
Art Museum Z33
Hasselt, Belgium
June 12-Aug 22, 2021
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Interview and Online Premiere of A Passage
Sygma
15-30, June, 2021
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Open Studios
Jan Van Eyck Academie
Maastricht, Netherlands
23-26 June & 1-3 July, 2021
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M HKA / Van Abbemuseum Reasearch Fellowship
within the framework of the L’Internationale
M HKA and the Van Abbemuseum
2021-2022
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A Passage won the Prix George for the Best Documentary Form
24th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
November 8, 2020
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37th Kasseler Dokfest, 2020
’A Passage’ Official Selection: 'Resistance Takes Place
Kassel, Germany
November 19, 2020
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24th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2020
’A Passage’ Official Selection International Competition
Winterthur, Switzerland
November 3-8, 2020
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44th Mostra Internacional de Cinema / São Paulo International Film Festival, 2020
Official Selection of ‘Threshold’ for New Directors Competition
São Paulo, Brazil
October 22, 2020
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Environmental Identities #5: A Thread Between Two Mountains, from Ararat to Cîlo
With Rouzbeh Akhbari and Savaş Boyraz
Jan Van Eyck Academie
October 22, 2020
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Jan Van Eyck Academie Residency
With Rouzbeh Akhbari as Pejvak
Maastricht, Netherlands
September 22 - April 1, 2020
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Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
A Passage screening in
International Competition
Garage Screen & Illussion
Moscow, Russia
August 24 & 25, 2020
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Kyiv International Short Film Festival
A Passage screening in
Ghost Spaces Program
Hashchi Urban Space
Kyiv, Ukraine
August 7, 2020
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Cabinet Magazine: 66
An Enclosure - Essay on Wardian Cases and it’s
impacts on colonial botany
Winter 2019 - Spring 2020
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𝗪𝗬𝗗? (𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚)
Artist talk alongside Steve Gurysh and Misael Soto
Organized by Nina Sarnelle Naval, LA, USA
May 10, 2020 11am PST
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Northern Convergences
Felix Kalmenson, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Charles Stankievech
Maclaren Art Centre
Barrie, Canada
Dec 5 - March 8, 2020
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Artist-in-Residence
Zarya CCA
Vladivostok, Russia
November 2-December 31, 2019
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Platform: The Last Big Thing
A Passage screening
ArtScience Museum
Singapore
November 8 - December 1, 2019
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Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
A Passage screening as part
Artist Film Program: Documentary Competition
Vault 34
Istanbul, Turkey
November 14, 2019
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Aesthetica Short Film Festival
A Passage screening as part
Artist Film Program: Borders and Identities
1331
York, UK
November 8-9, 2019
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Doclisboa International Film Festival
A Passage screening as part
Body Politics and Mental Territory
Culturegest
Lisbon, Portugal
October 25, 2019
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To see and see again
Jana Omar Elkhatib, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Rajee Paña Jeji Shergill, Felix Kalmenson, Jinyoung Kim, and Zinnia Naqvi
Hamilton Artist Inc.
Hamilton, Canada
Sept 4 - Nov 2, 2019
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Critical Distance: Billboard on Shaw co-presented in partnership with C Magazine
’The Bell at the End of Time’ Artist Project as Pejvak
Toronto, Canada
Summer 2019
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Salon of Conviviality
Hoa Dung Clerget, Rouzbeh Akhbari & Felix Kalmenson, Oberflächenunterstützung, Mitja Churikov, Zip group, Shinuk Suh , Anna Fobia, Zina Isupova , Matthew Wang, Daria Neretina
White Room Foundation
Moscow, Russia
July 6-16, 2019
In its place only steel
As Pejvak (With Rouzbeh Akhbari)
State Silk Museum
Tbilisi, Georgia
June 20-30, 2019
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C Magazine 142: Monument
’The Bell at the End of Time’ Artist Project as Pejvak
Toronto, Canada
Summer 2019
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The Village and the Revolution
Excerpt of play 'A Question of Living' included in the publication
Edited by Simon Mraz
Published by Austrian Cultural Forum,
Moscow, Russia
2018
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How to Breathe Forever
Mary Anne Barkhouse, Maryanne Casasanta, DaveandJenn, Li Xinmo, Qavavau Manumie, Pejvak (Rouzbeh Akhbari + Felix Kalmenson), Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Ningiukulu Teevee, and Flora Weistche.
Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith
Onsite Gallery
Toronto, Canada
January 16 - April 14th, 2019
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The Work of Wind: Land Edited by Christine Shaw and Etienne Turpin
With contributions by Rouzbeh Akhbari & Felix Kalmenson, d’bi.young anitafrika, Amy Balkin, Jesse Birch, D.T. Cochrane, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Anna Feigenbaum, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Ilana Halperin, Tom Keefer, Barbara Marcel, Mimi Onuoha, Tomás Saraceno, Christine Shaw, Juliana Spahr, Adrienne Telford, Etienne Turpin, Allen S. Weiss, Tania Willard, and Eva Wilson. Co-published by K. Verlag in partnership with the , University of Toronto Mississauga
September 2018
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The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea
Presented by Blackwood Gallery
Eduardo Navarro, Pejvak (Felix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari), Museo Aero Solar, Xiaojing Yan, Lisa Myers, Paul Walde, Dylan A.T. Miner, Ed Pien, Tania Willard, Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas, Indrė Umbrasaitė, Nicole L’Huillier, Julian Oliver, Jana Winderen, and Christina Battle.
Curated by Christine Shaw
Southdown Industrial Area
Toronto, Canada
September 14-23, 2018
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contact landing(s)
Faraz Anoushahpour-Parastoo Anoushahpour-Ryan Ferko, Christina Battle, Sandra Brewster, Teresa Carlesimo & Michael DiRisio, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Zoe Hëyn-Jones, Felix Kalmenson, Morris Lum, Dylan Miner, Jalani Morgan, Abdi Osman, Skawennati
Curated by Ellyn Walker
Thames Art Gallery
Chatham, Canada
July 20 – September 16, 2018
The Funambulist No 17: Weaponized Infrastructure With contributions by Rouzbeh Akhbari and Felix Kalmenson, Deborah Cowen, Charmaine Chua, Solveig Suess, Begüm Adalet, Zannah Mæ Matson, Laleh Khalili, Sabrien Amrov, Malak Al-Faraj & Leyla Oz, Nay Saysourinho, Chanelle Adams, Rami Abdel Moula, and Dubravka Sekulic.
May-June 2018
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A Passage
As PJVK (with Rouzbeh Akhbari)
Hay Art Cultural Center
Yerevan, Armenia
May 15-21, 2018
Screening of A House of Skin and Neither Country, Nor Graveyard
Followed by a conversation between Jenn Jackson and Svitlana Matviyenko
Part of 'Sum of its Parts'
Curated by Jenn Jackson
Pollyanna Library @ 221a
Vancouver, Canada
May 16, 2018
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From the Body I Spent
Curated by Maya Tounta
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Riga, Latvia
February 15 - March 29, 2018
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Cold Cuts Video Festival
ADL, Amanda Boulos, Liz Knox, and Tanya Lukin Linklater.
Curated by Christina Battle
SOVA Gallery
Dawson City, Yukon
March 30-April 1, 2018
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The Future Is Certain; It's the Past Which Is Unpredictable
Blaffer Art Museum
February 17–August 11, 2018
Houston, USA
Curated by Monika Lipšic with work by Tacita Dean, Felix Kalmenson, Maria Loboda, Jonas Mekas (with Johnston Sheard and Justė Kostikovaitė), Deimantas Narkevičius, Robertas Narkus, Emily Newman, Goda Palekaitė and Monika Lipšic, Jura Shust, Emilija Skarnulyte, Slavs and Tatars and Juan Pablo Villegas
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Artist in Residence
Theertha Red Dot Gallery,
Colombo, Sri Lanka
January 1 - 30, 2018
In Between Mean Time Lecture
Malaysia Design Archive
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
December 13, 2017
Artist in Residence
Research on Gutta Percha, the history of submarine telegraphy and the colonial botanical garden network.
Grey Projects
Singapore
1 October-30 November, 2017
Shorts 2: Rare Minerals
Maeve Brennan, Emma Charles, and Felix Kalmenson
AND Festival
Castleton, Peak District National Park, UK
22 September 2017
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A House of Skin
Artcite
Windsor, Canada
September 8 - October 7, 2017
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Artist Talk: Between Mean Time and the Following Places
Jupiter Woods
London, UK
August 10, 2017
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Mapping Li-qui-di-ty Symposium
Organized by Qian Yang
Goldsmiths University of London
July 22, 2017
London, UK
The Future is Certain; It's the Past Which is Unpredictable
Calvert 22
London, UK
Curated by Monika Lipsic
Felix Kalmenson, Jonas Mekas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Emily Newman, Rather Than Happiness, Jura Shust, Slavs and Tatars, Emilija Skarnulyte, and Juan Pablo Villegas
23 June-20 August 2017
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CITIZENSFIVE
Art Athina
Athens, Greece
May 26-28, 2017
Curated by Alexander Burenkov
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A Mountain That Opens Like a Door
Images Festival
Innis Town Hall
Toronto, Canada
April 23 2017
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Governing the Effects of Retrograde Part 1
Things That Can Happen
Hong Kong
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Curated by Jesse McKee
With Rosa Aiello, Evgeny Granilshchikov, Patrick Goddard, Felix Kalmenson, Yuri Pattison, Julia Feyrer & Tamara Henderson, and Laure Prouvost.
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Kak Vsegda/As Always
Pari Nadimi Gallery
Toronto, Canada
February 9-March 25, 2017
Opening reception: Thursday, February 9, 6-8 pm
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of movement and dwelling
Tings Chak, Felix Kalmenson, and the collective of Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko
Curated by Farah Yusuf
Trinity Square Video
Toronto, Canada
13 January–11 March 2017
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Portals... or Location Scouting in Kaunas
Online group video exhibition curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas
Presented by Spike Art Quarterly
Produced by Kaunas International Film Festival
December 21-January 22, 2017
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A House of Skin at l'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
November 17 & 20, 2016
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The Hum
In Collaboration with Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko
The Sculpture Center in Partnership with SPACES
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Nov 11-Dec 17, 2016
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Land Also Moves (With ADL)
Contemporary Art Museums of Beijing North 6th Ring Road
Part of Independent Art Spaces
Beijing, China
August 27, 2016
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Von Den Strömen Der Stadt – On The Currents Of The City
Baltensperger + Siepert | David Bernstein | Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr | Isabella Fürnkäs and Lukas von der Gracht | Taisiya Ivanova | Felix Kalmenson | Tomas Kleiner and Marco Biermann | Stephan Machac | Rhein Verlag | Arne Schmitt Seira’s | Fari Shams | Pola Sieverding | Studio for Propositional Cinema | Britta Thie | Palina Vetter | Alex Wissel and Jan Bonny | Anna Witt
Museum Abteiberg
Mönchengladbach, Germany
July 3 – October 23, 2016
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Residency at NCCA North-West
Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg, Russia
June 18-July 2, 2016
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Screening of A House of Skin
Ozo Kino Sale Presented with Rupert
Vilnius, Lithuania
June 3, 2016
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Residency at Rupert
Vilnius, Lithuania
April 1-June 15, 2016
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False Histories
Curated by Christina Battle and Adán De La Garza
January 15, 2016
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Swimminal Poolitics
Organized by
BLUNT X SKENSVED
DIS Magazine
Nov 17, 2015 - February 15, 2016
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A Year in Revenue, 2017 (Documentation)
New Toronto Works
Pleasure Dome
Geary Lane
Toronto, Canada
September 26, 2015
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The Irony of Fate, 2015 (Video Still)
Anatomy of a Square
Art Now
Nathan Phillips Square
Toronto, Canada
September 18-20, 2015
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How to Die Watching Another Sleeping
As Part of the Felt Book
Institute for New Feelings
September 6, 2015
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A Line is Not a Line it is a Violence
Part of September First Thursday
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
September 3, 2015
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In the Shadow of the Rainbow
Part of Sunday Drive Art Projects
Warkworth, Ontario
A collaborative video and public art installation with Onyeka Igwe on queerness and prison justice.
August 15-30, 2015
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Stories Told, Group Exhibition Curated by John Monteith
A group exhibition to accompany the launch of Vector Artist's
Journal at O'Born Contemporary.
Speaking Across Histories By Ellyn Walker For Magenta Magazine
Essay on Highway 80 and Rehab Nazzal's powerful work Drones over Gaza at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Unsettling Colonial Modernity Conference
Rouzbeh Akhbari will be presenting our co-authored paper 'Casablanca: From Protectorate to Neoliberal City' on our work in Casablanca at the Unsettling Colonial Modernity Conference
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
April 25, 2015
A Year in Revenue: Artist Talk with presentation by Elliot Vredenburg
Pari Nadimi Gallery
Toronto, Canada
March 21, 2015
Sunday Scene
I will be speaking about the show The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding as part of Sunday Scene
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Toronto, Canada
March 15, 2015
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OCT 1 00:00-OCT 15 00:00
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
October 25 – December 14, 2014
Watch Your Stops
In Collaboration with Ash Moniz
Bazaar Compatible and Minsheng Art Museum
Shanghai, China
December 12-13, 2014
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre: Artist-in-Residence
Material and Mechanism
Aomori City, Japan
October 25 – December 14, 2014
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