Category: Component

Anonymous’ Art

Component Exploration: Anonymous’ Art All I Want is Love by Anonymous Anonymous (he/him) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections I’m trans. BIPOC. Well, not BIPOC, Punjabi. I’m a person of colour. I’m not out to my family, I still live at home. And I guess I’m low-income marginal. I recently graduated from university. I wanted my …

Maria’s Art

Component Exploration: Maria’s Art Intimacy, a play by Maria Link to full script Maria – Artist’s Statement and Reflections “I’m driven for that which makes us uncomfortable, breaks what we know, scares us, and challenges us. I hope to dedicate my life to telling the stories of those people that do not follow a neurotypical …

Estelle’s Art

Component Exploration: Estelle’s Art U n h i n g e d – a one-person play about the pandemic so far” by Estelle Foh Link to full script Estelle Foh (she/they) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections I am a 25-year-old artist from the Toronto area now. I am a writer, a director, an actor sometimes. …

Wren’s Art

Component Exploration: Wren’s Art Song Disorganized by Wren (Verse 1) Can you come over tonight? I want to hold you one more time Just don’t look into my eyes Or leave before saying goodbye I want to be good to you Not this scared mess I know I don’t feel right But I don’t feel …

Z.D.’s Art

Component Exploration: Z.D.’s Art Study with Me with ADHD by Z.D. Description: An exodus from the clean, clear and minimalist monopoly on your every day studyspo content. I’m happy to bring you a candid ode to maximalism and messiness. An ADHD Study/Work with Me! Come join, support, n hang out :). Expect an unapologetically messy …

Hope’s Art

Component Exploration: Reflecting on Hope’s Art Painting by Hope Hope (they/them) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections Bringing all the symbolism from my two cultures in one thing is kind of a tricky thing. This one is a native ancestor, Jewish ancestor, native ancestor, Jewish ancestor, Jewish, then these two images are native. I’m going to …

Mad Artists’ Gallery

Mad Artists’ Gallery Takeaways Appreciate the importance of art-making and creative self-expression as a healing practice for racialized mad people who often have adverse experiences in the traditional mental health system Understand art as a form of activist engagement with, and critique of, interlocking systems of oppression Recognize the value of art-making as a medium …

Component Exploration 2

Component Exploration 2: Jane Doe Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online Kiran Shoker is a young South Asian Canadian woman. The first component presented is her poem “Jane Doe,”  is about the South Asian female body as a colonialized entity. The second component is an excerpted set of Shoker’s thoughts on her poem taken from …

Component Exploration 1

Component Exploration 1: “Cheers to Capitalism” Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online C.J. is a young Asian-Canadian woman. The first component presented is her poem “Cheers to Capitalism,” which is about the racial and gender stereotyping she has experienced in the workforce. The second component is an excerpted set of C.J.’s thoughts on her poem …

Components: Self-guided

Components: Self-guided Timing: 35-45 minutes Mode: In-class; Online Students should listen to Psychiatric Hollywood and the accompanying audio by Annalissa Crisostomo describing how and why the artivist piece was created.   Link to Psychiatric Hollywood on Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/acrisostomo/sets/psychiatric-hollywood See Full Transcript for Psychiatric Hollywood here  Appendix A See Audio Transcript here  Appendix B While listening, …