interdisciplinary
HELD
2023
Immersive & Interactive Installation: Ceramic & Glass Mosaic / Pebble Mosaic / Video / Sculpture
Co-Solo show by Anna Camilleri & Wy Joung Kou
Presented by Tangled Arts & Disability Gallery in partnership with ReDefine Arts
Supported by the Ontario Arts Council & Toronto Arts Council.
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HELD is a multi-sensory exhibition composed of multiple works within a shared ecosystem including: ceramic and glass mosaic, installation, pebble mosaic sculpture, video, audio, and interaction. Reimagining the gallery as a co-created and invitational space, HELD asks: What futures await our queer, disabled bodies? What sustainable futures can we co-create together?
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Learn more about held at www.tangledarts.org/whats-on/held/
Image description: photos by Felicia Byron portray the HELD exhibit from different angles. The gallery is filled with hanging handcrafted orbs whose shadows cast onto the walls. One end of the gallery has a video projection on the wall of a rainy river, surrounded by lush greenery, with overlaid shadows of hands. The other end of the gallery hosts colourful ceramic and glass mosaics on the wall, featuring hand imagery, spoons, bowls and plates. In the centre of the gallery are pebble mosaic benches and tables in all sorts of irregular and organic shapes, of varying heights to sit/lean on.
A Language of Limbs
2022
Experimental Short. 5 min.
Co-Directors: Wy Joung Kou & Jody Chan
Created with support from TQFF's DIY Film Lab, 2021
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A Language of Limbs is an experimental stop-motion short film mapping the etiology of hysteria against lineages of crip kinship and hard-earned resilience. A set of ceramic objects; a pair of rescue inhalers; a handful of ginger candies; a nerve of red yarn. Everyday objects come together in an insistent choreography to illustrate the realities of sickness and care, past and present. Drawing on poetry, historical research, and personal experience navigating the medical system as chronically ill, neurodivergent, and disabled people, A Language of Limbs argues that our bodies are not blank pages, or sites of diagnosis, but maps toward queer desire and agency.
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To request a screener, fill out the form in the Contact section of this website.
Image description: still image from A Language of Limbs. Depicted are two burnt matchsticks forming an X, sitting in the center of a 3D model of a pelvis.
Unscripted: KINSHIP
2022
KINSHIP is a three-part podcast series exploring themes of interdependence, care and kinship in the arts. Each episode, hosted by Angela Sun, welcomes a different artistic collective to engage in conversation about how they are reimagining artistic collaboration in ways that embrace these themes as well as how relationships and radical reciprocity have been integral to the development of their collective’s unique creative processes.
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June 16 - Episode 1: The Countdown Public Art Project
June 23 - Episode 2: The Switch Collective
June 30 - Episode 3: Bricks & Glitter
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Unscripted: KINSHIP is a ReDefine Arts production, co-curated & edited by Becky Gold and Wy Joung Kou with digital producer Megan Wilk, and generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, & Toronto Arts Council.
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Access the audio-only versions of the episodes on Apple Podcasts and/or the Open Captioned audio-visual versions on Youtube by clicking the buttons below.
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Image description: promotional image for the release of Unscripted: KINSHIP. Image features three distinct and colourful drawings by Becky Gold. Drawings are inspired by the work and heart of each Unscripted: KINSHIP artist collective and the recorded conversations that took place.
The Mermaid Project
2021
Interdisciplinary Theatre
Facilitated by: Ximena Huizi
Co-creators: Wy Joung Kou, Akiva Blaine, Aria Evans, Kristine White, Ximena Huizi, Jody Chan
With support from: ReDefine Arts' Inkling Festival, and the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Theatre Creators through Aluna theatre.
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"A group of artists meet at the intersection of their disciplines to dig their hands, bodies, and voices into the waters of the mermaid archetype. In the wake of a climate crisis future where the sacred rock that houses our limited human bodies promises to be ravaged by fire and water, we set out to imagine how we can become merpeople. We look at the myths, at our bodies, at our relationships to power and access... We remember our experiences of water - what we love and fear about it. We investigate the creation of a ritual to activate an emergency evolutionary pattern so we may begin to mutate into beings that can exist past the destruction of the human reign. We call forth the mermaid."
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Recent presentation: Live creation process - Caminos Festival, 2021. Link to recorded livestream here.
Image description: a digital collage by co-creator Aria Evans features five simple drawings of a long haired person in movement, wearing only underwear and shoes. Each iteration of the person is posed differently (crouching, kneeling, bending) and has collaged materials on top of varying parts of the body. These bodies are set against a lightly faded background image of ice and rushing water, overlaid with illustrated speckles and bubbles.