MOCA Toronto
158 Sterling Road M6R 2B7 Toronto, ON, Canada

Do you remember the days when you came to the Museum and participated in various workshops and hands-on learning activities on the last Sunday of each month? Starting in March 2021, your favourite TD Community Sundays will move to the first Sunday of each month so that it's easier for everyone to remember when they are taking place! We are still offering various workshops and learning activities online! On March's TD Community Sunday, Christie Carrière from Tea Base is... hosting a free online workshop with us, so check the info at https://lnk.bio/mocatoronto! Thank you to TD Canada for their support in bringing communities together through the power of art. TD Community Sundays are made possible by the TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. [ Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti, "The Power of a Single Seed" a workshop held for "Archiving Eden: Seed Exchange by Dornith Doherty" took place one year ago on TD Community Sunday, February 23, 2020. Photo credit: Gabriel Li.] #ArtNeverCloses #MOCAatHome #MuseumfromHome #TDCommunitySunday #TDReadyCommitment

What distinguishes artist Michael Lin from other contemporary artists? His collaboration with local artists definitely stands out! Last fall, through an open call, a group of Toronto's artists joined us to create "Archipelago" (2020) under a mentorship programme with Michael and the Museum.... By now, you may have already checked some of their accounts and artworks, but if you haven't, make sure to look them up and appreciate their expressivity of these Toronto-based artists: Vanessa Maltese, Val Sears, Leeay Aikawa, Stephanie Bellefleur, Tania Costa, Lily Huang, Wenting Li, Erin McCluskey, Yen Linh Thai, Kelcy Timmons & Jinke Wang. Learn more about Michael's artistic practice at a free online conversation on March 4 at 7:30 pm. Register now at http://bit.ly/MichaelLinTalk. Thank you for supporting local artists' imagination and creativity through the artist mentorship program, the RBC Foundation's #RBCEmergingArtists Project and TikTok Canada. [ Michael Lin, "Archipelago," 2020. Installation view. Photo credit: Tom Arban Photography Inc.] #ArtNeverCloses #mocatoronto #MOCAatHome #MuseumfromHome #RBCFoundation #torontoartist #localatist #MichaelLin #MichaelLin #contemporaryart #instllationart #taiwaneseartist #artisttalk

We are excited to be exhibiting three works from the project "Flowers for Africa" by artist Kapwani Kiwanga when MOCA can reopen. Kiwanga talks specifically about the "Flowers for Africa" project in a sound recording made during her exhibition for #PrixMarcelDuchamp at Centre Pompidou in Paris. She describes the work as a protocol that is based on an image which shows a floral arrangement present during a moment of historic importance when an African country becomes inde...pendent." Kiwanga began "Flowers for Africa" in 2012 and the project continues to expand. To date, sixteen different floral arrangements have been created corresponding to fourteen different countries. This approach of sharing a protocol results in a variety of interpretations and differences between each manifestation of the work. The works to be presented at MOCA were all conceived in 2020 and include "Flowers for Africa: Angola," 2020; "Flowers for Africa: Uganda," 2020 and "Flowers for Africa: Cameroon," 2020. Check Kiwanga's recording by Centre Culturel Canadien / Canadian Cultural Centre now at https://lnk.bio/mocatoronto [ Screenshot of Centre culturel canadien, "Kapwani Kiwanga, 'Flowers For Africa' - Marcel Duchamp Prize 2020," YouTube, October 21, 2020.] #ArtNeverCloses #mocatoronto #MOCAatHome #MuseumfromHome #artisttalk #canadianartist #KapwaniKiwanga #hamiltonontario #getinspired

Why is the Museum's Executive Director talking to artist Michael Lin at our next free online conversation session on March 4? That is a good question! Kathleen's relationship with Michael goes back to her time at Vancouver Art Gallery, where she and her curatorial team commissioned Lin to create a significant painting intervention, as you can see in this post's image.... Now, at her new home base here at MOCA, Kathleen invited Michael to produce a series of floor and seating structures for the entrance floor of the Museum, which resulted in "Archipelago" (2020). Register for this free online talk on March 4 at 7:30 pm EST now at http://bit.ly/MichaelLinTalk A big thank goes to our Public Programmes, Lead Sponsor Scotiabank! [ Michael Lin, A Modest Veil, 2010. Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada.] #ArtNeverCloses #mocatoronto #MOCAatHome #MuseumfromHome #MichaelLin #contemporaryart #instllationart #taiwaneseartist #artisttalk

Are you ready to turn your cereal or cardboard box into a treasure box with the help of a talented local artist? Join our next TD Community Sunday online activity on March 7 at noon. Christie Carrière from Tea Base will demonstrate how to make and decorate your own Mahjong tile treasure box with basic materials that you may already have at home. Register for this free online workshop now at http://bit.ly/MahjongTileBox... If you used to come to visit us on TD Community Sundays, you know they took place on the last Sunday of each month. From March 2021 onwards, TD Community Sundays happen on the first Sunday of each month. TD Community Sundays are made possible by the TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. Thank you for your generous support, TD Canada. [ Christie Carrière] #weekendactivity #homeactivities #ArtNeverCloses #MOCAatHome #MuseumfromHome #TDCommunitySunday #TDReadyCommitment #localartist #Torontoartist #mahjong #crafttime

Actions speak louder than words! [Full disclosure: a person behind the Museum's social media channels is a first-generation immigrant of East Asian descent ] We came to know the work of Decolonize This Place (DTP) through this month's Shift Key programme curated by Native Art Department International (NADI)a long-term collaborative project created and administered by Toronto-based artists Jason Lujan and Maria Hupfield.... As an art institution, we need to keep un-learning and learning. MOCA is currently in the process of developing a 5-year strategic plan. We are working with our facilitators PROCESS to view our vision and mission through an equity lens, reflecting on where we've come from. "When We Breathe We Breathe Together" is DTP's action-oriented cultural organizing initiative that runs until the end of April. The first in its virtual conversation series "Land, Life, Liberation" is happening on Saturday, February 27 at noon. Join this free conversation and let's learn what kinds of actions can help transform cultural institutions across and beyond Canada! Check our DTP's initiative and watch its "This Is The Work That We Do" on our Shift Key online platform now via https://lnk.bio/mocatoronto [ A repost of the image from Art Gallery of Guelph's IG post from February 4, 2021. A description from the gallery webpage: "Front steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which was last stop of the 4th Anti-Columbus Day Tour organized by Decolonize This Place and friends (October 2019)."] #ArtNeverCloses #MOCAShiftKey #mocatoronto #MOCAatHome #MuseumfromHome #nativeartdepartmentinternational #localartist #Torontoartist #decolonizethisplace #mariahupfield #jasonlujan #contemporaryart

We have recently reached the goal of our Tomorrow of Contemporary Art capital campaign launched in 2017, thanks to all the generous contributors from both the private and public sectors. Mayor John Tory (@johntory) noted, MOCA is a vital part of the city’s cultural landscape, bringing together contemporary artists from across the country and around the globe into one space. During these challenging times, the arts provide a platform for artists to showcase their work and ...to provide moments of hope and joy for residents. It is essential that they receive support to not only survive the current situation but to thrive so that they can continue to create opportunities for people to experience our city’s rich arts and culture sector. [ Visitors in front of Yazan Khalili's "Medusa," 2020, during the Anniversary Weekend, 2020.] #mocatoronto #thankyou #TomorrowOfContemporaryArt

Eleven local artists are participating in the production of Michael Lin’s Archipelago and its mentorship programme. Wenting Li is one of the brilliant artists! Wenting is an illustrator working in a wide range of artistic practices, including murals, panting, zines, and ceramics, on top of kid programming through @storyplanetto! In my work, I'm drawn to the thread of whimsy, chaos and the inexplicable that runs through the seemingly mundane parts of everyday life. Othe...r obsessions include reading past my bedtime and daydreaming on my bike. By participating in this programme, she looks to gain a new and novel vantage point for thinking. Michael Lin's work is super intricate and underlaid with his use of unique boundaries and elaborateness that inform our approach. The intersection of his art with the repetitive, meditative nature of production, with finding new paths for my thoughts to run, offers a really interesting walk. Go to say hi to Wenting and check out her work at https://www.wentingli.com/. [ Wenting Li, Star Signals, 2020; Lily Pind, 2020; Doubled-Stemmed Flower, 2020;] #mocatoronto #torontoartist #localartist #MichaelLin

When you share a passion for contemporary art and believe that culture can expand ways of thinking and bring people together, MOCA Toronto is the place for you. Of the many generous supporters who contributed to MOCA’s Tomorrow of Contemporary Art capital campaign, one of our most significant lead donors was the Government of Canada. The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Heritage, said, I would like to congratulate MOCA on reaching this significant milesto...ne and achieving the target goal of its capital campaign. Our government is committed to continuing to invest in world-class cultural spaces like MOCA that nurture creativity and inspire Canadian artists. Our $5.9 million investment in the renovation of MOCA, through the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, will help to ensure that this cultural space will be there for the next generation of artists, while continuing to support the dynamism of Canada’s cultural scene as well as the vitality, quality of life and prosperity of the community. With trust and support from our public-sector partners, MOCA can continue promoting forward-thinking artistic experimentation while providing a community space for enrichment, discourse, collaboration and creativity. [ Toni Hafkenscheid. Installation view of "Acts of Erasure" at MOCA Toronto.] #mocatoronto #thankyou #TomorrowOfContemporaryArt

Today, we’d like to introduce to you Toronto-based artist Val Sears! She is the co-lead for the production of Michael Lin’s installation Archipelago. Val’s artistic practiceprimarily consisting of oil painting and line drawingoften focuses on inner-city observances: I see my work as a response to the spaces I find myself navigating. I choose sites that jog a memory, are in the midst of a transition, or are reflective of stories told to me by others through conversa...tion. Why did she join this production team? She considers Lin’s installation as a dynamic challenge as well as an opportunity to help build a community. I have a great appreciation for the practice of painting, the constant learning it requires, and the dialogue it creates. To be able to learn in depth about Lin’s process while engaging with other local artists struck me as something special. Please give a big shout-out to Val and find more about her practice at http://valsears.ca/ *We currently remain open Thursday through Sunday, so please come to say hi to the artists participating in the production of Archipelago on site! [ Val Sears; Val Sears, Two and a half parties present, 2019, 12" x 16" oil on treated paper; Val Sears, A familiar house far from home, 2018, 9" x 12" oil on treated paper.] #mocatoronto #torontoartist #localartist #MichaelLin

Stephanie Bellefleurone of the participating artists for the production of Michael Lin's "Archipelago and its mentorship programmehas created paint designs for your Halloween pumpkins Tomorrow (October 31) drop by at the museum to pick up a FREE mini pumpkin and the painting design between 11 am and 1 pmlimit 1 per family, while quantities last! Use Stephanie's designs as inspiration or as a stencil to paint your pumpkin at home ... The design is also available as a PDF file at https://moca.ca/pumpkin-painting-with-stephanie-bellefleur/ [ Mini pumpkins painted with the paint design.] #halloweendecor #halloweenpumpkin #MOCAatHome #MuseumFromHome #localartist #mocatoronto

With Halloween this weekend, what better time for a pumpkin-painting activity? Come to MOCA to pick up a mini pumpkin and painting stencil designed by artist Stephanie Bellefleur this Saturday, October 31, from 11 am to 1 pm. **Limit 1 per family, while quantities last.** Stephanie is one of the artists currently working on the Michael Lin painting installation "Archipelago."... Find out more about the installation in progress and the participating artists at https://moca.ca/michael-lin-in-progress-2020/. [ from our 2019 Halloween event "Fall into MOCA."] #mocatoronto #HalloweenActivities

For last month's TD Community Sunday activity, we introduced "Masked" a new online activity created by artist Kendra Yee. Kendra shares her introduction to the activity below: Hello! My name is Kendra Yee. My art practice interprets tales of personal history, lived experiences, and collective narratives to develop site-specific installations that carve new archives, looking for ways to materialize the truths and fictions of memory. I invite you to try the activity I have cr...eated titled "Masked." Drawing imagery from Yazan Khalili’s exhibition, "Medusa," I will be showing you how to create your own paper clay masks that interact with digital technologies. Bringing together the physical and the digital, we can build concealed identities and deconstruct the meaning of face coverings. Masked is available online now at moca.ca. Post your mask online and tag #mocatoronto! [ Kendra Yee] #TDReadyCommitment #YazanKhalili

With Halloween this weekend, what better time for a pumpkin-painting activity? Come to MOCA to pick up a mini pumpkin and painting stencil designed by artist Stephanie Bellefleur this Saturday, October 31, from 11 am to 1 pm. **Limit 1 per family, while quantities last.** Stephanie is one of the artists currently working on the Michael Lin painting installation "Archipelago."... Find out more about the installation in progress and the participating artists at https://moca.ca/michael-lin-in-progress-2020/. [ from our 2019 Halloween event "Fall into MOCA."] #mocatoronto #HalloweenActivities

We recently concluded our Tomorrow of Contemporary Art capital campaign with the most significant show of private sector support to date from Castlepoint Auto Building, Inc., a leader in the property development industry, recognized for projects across the Greater Toronto Area and select markets in the United States. Castlepoint President Alfredo Romano said, On behalf of Castlepoint, I am delighted to support MOCA and help complete its capital campaign during these unprec...edented and challenging times. I believe in MOCA’s programme and in Kathleen Bartel’s vision for the future. Supporting the arts is essential to our recovery because access to artistic expression in all its forms is a catalyst for community development. Importantly, the arts have a universal power to uplift, inspire, and build bridges. I look forward to working with Kathleen and her colleagues in the months and years ahead. Thank you to all of the generous supporters. With your continuing support, we can empower local artists and engage the Toronto art scene, while contributing to the international art community and scholarship. #mocatoronto #thankyou #TomorrowOfContemporaryArt [ behind the Auto BLDG/the museum during the Anniversary Weekend, 2020.]

The third work featured in "A River Waits Reply" is Mexican artist's Miguel Calderón's "Camaleón"(2017), selected by Museo Tamayo from Mexico City. Calderon’s film stands as a social portrait, documenting a male character’s captivating relationship to his female falcon. Camaleon’s voice-over leads us through his everyday life: his night job as a bouncer and his early outings with his bird along with his erotic inclinations and his death drive as he committed his first mur...der. The film also stands as a poetic portrait of Mexico City’s nightlife and as a poignant metaphor of the wave of violence experienced in the country over the last decades. "Camaleón" is available to view until November 1 at https://moca.ca/a-river-waits-reply "A River Waits Reply"a screening series developed in partnership with six international arts organizationspresents moving-image works from around the world as a poetic reply to this unprecedented year. [ Still from Miguel Calderón, "Camaleón," 2017. Digital Video, 2630. ] #aRiverWaitsReply #MOCAatHome #MuseumFromHome #mocatoronto

#MOCAnniversary Photo Contest Winner Announcement Thank you everyone who participated in the photo contest! Come to check our Instagram account to find out the winners https://www.instagram.com/mocatoronto/ Congrats to all of the winners! ... We like to extend our thanks to our neighbourhood partners who generously contributed to our Anniversary Weekend

If you missed our September artist talk with currently exhibiting artist Yazan Khalili and KW Institute for Contemporary Art Associate Curator Tirdad Zolghadr then today is your lucky day This online talk is now available on our website In the conversation, they talked about Khalili’s artistic practice and video installation "Medusa," on view at MOCA until November 15. Find out more about the exhibition and watch the artist talk at http://bit.ly/KhaliliTalk... [ Still from artist talk "Yazan Khalili in Conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr," September 25, 2020. ] #MOCAArtistTalk #YazanKhalili #MOCAatHome #MuseumFromHome #mocatoronto

This weekend is your last chance to see #CarlosBunga's "A Sudden Beginning" and #SarahSze's "Images in Debris." Please do visit us to experience Bunga's immersive structure "Occupy" and Sze's mesmerizing installation Book a timed-entry ticket online before your visit at http://tickets.moca.ca/ [ Installation view of Sarah Sze's "Images in Debris" (2018) & Vx Guide's guided tour during the Anniversary Weekend of Carlos Bunga's "Occupy" (2020)]... #mocatoronto

The newly released video on our Shift Key online platform is Toronto-based artist and filmmaker Oliver Husain's "moth maze" (2012), selected by independent curator Daisy Desrosiers as part of her programme takeover! In this video, the camera moves along a maze-like winding path marked by lamps at two locationsan empty warehouse in downtown Toronto and a forest in Kerala, Indiawhere the camera's path and the lamps' positions are the same. The similarity connects these two ...otherwise unrelated places and creates a portal between the two spacesa playground for both insect and human viewers. Attracted to the light of the screen as day turns to night, our attention ricochets from twilight to lamplight. "moth maze" is available to view until October 9 at https://bit.ly/mocaShiftKey. [Oliver Husain, still from "moth maze," 2012. 6 minutes, silent.] #mocatoronto #MOCAShiftKey

This month's TD Community Sunday features a new activity, "Visualize Your Story," created by artist Alia Youssef. Drawing inspiration from #FatmaBucak and #KristaBelleStewart's exhibition "Acts of Erasure," this activity invites you to create a visual storyusing both photography and textthat highlights the personal story of someone who you feel should be heard. Find out more in the Learning Activities section on our website at https://moca.ca/learning-activities/... TD Community Sundays are made possible by the TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform TD Ready Commitment. [ A visual story example from "Visualize Your Story" by Alia Youssef.] #MOCAatHome #MuseumFromHome #mocatoronto #TDCommunitySunday #TDReadyCommitment

Organized in partnership with CONTACT Photography Festival, our new fall exhibition "Acts of Erasure" brings the two distinct artistic practices of #FatmaBucak & #KristaBelleStewart into dialogue Despite their very different personal heritages and experiences, both Bucak and Stewart interrogate perceptions of cultural identity, indigeneity and the notion of the nation-state. Through collaborative, research-focused art practices, they probe shared historical constructions an...d fallacies. The resulting works present encounters with truths that are both revealing and oftentimes unsettling. On October 23, Bucak and Stewart will join Gabrielle Moser for a conversation about their exhibition, more details to follow [ Fatma Bucak, "An Incomplete History" (2014).] #mocatoronto #CONTACT2020

Thank you everyone who visited us and explored our #JunctionTriangle neighbourhood during #MOCAnniversary weekend! We hope you enjoyed your time with us Whether you visited us this weekend or not, we wanted to thank you Without our donors, supporters, members and visitors, we wouldn't be where we are today. With your ongoing generous support, we will thrive to support and promote forward-thinking artistic experimentation. We have exciting new exhibitions and online progra...mmes lined up for this fall including our CONTACT Photography Festival partnership exhibition "Acts of Erasure" opening this Thursday, so we hope you can visit us again soon! [ Tom Sandler. From our Grand Opening Ceremony on September 22, 2018. ]

A new release on our Shift Key online platform is Steffani Jemison’s Sensus Plenior (2017), selected by Independent curator Daisy Desrosiers as part of her programmatic takeover. This video work is a study of language, gesture and movement through the practice of pantomime in the black church, particularly documenting a sequence of gestures unfolding in the body of Reverend Susan Webb, leader of Master Mime Ministry of Harlem. Rather than clarifying language through lan...guage, Webb’s gestures situate interpretation within the body’s affective experience beyond the domain of language. Jemison’s Sensus Plenior Is available to view online at https://bit.ly/mocaShiftKey. [ Still from Steffani Jemison, Sensus Plenior, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.] #MOCAShiftKey #mocatoronto #MOCAatHome #MuseumfromHome

We are excited to share information about the artists currently working with MOCA to paint Michael Lin's installation "Archipelago." Selected via an open-call, eleven artists are participating in a mentorship opportunity at the museum over the course of the next month. We are featuring the artists one by one here, so you can get to know them! The first artist is Yen Linh Thai! She is an interdisciplinary artist, muralist and illustrator who creates work that explores the ...whimsical and is largely inspired by stories and storytelling. "I strive to make art that exists on the cusp of two and three dimensions. Apart from art, I like animals, going on adventures, and eating delicious food." Linh was keen to participate in this programme as she is intrigued by installation art. "In my own practice, I have made site-specific immersive works. I began working on murals and public art in the last year, and I am still learning about what is possible in this realm. Michael Lin's installation at MOCA is a perfect intersection between these two paths. His works are grand, vibrant, and look incredibly crisp. I am very curious to learn, and excited to be a part of the creation process." Find out more about Linh's practice at https://www.yenlinhthai.com/ [ Yen Linh Thai, mural, High Park, Toronto, 2020; "Together Again," Celebration Square, Mississauga, 2020; still from "A Long Long Time Ago," 2017, stop animation.] #mocatoronto #torontoartist #localartist #MichaelLin

Today is the last day of #MOCAnniversary weekend. If you have already visited us this weekend, we hope you enjoyed your visit and our neighbourhood. If not, we're open until 6 pm, so book your timed-entry ticket and come visit us We have been offering free admission on the last Sunday of each month since February 2019 thanks to the generous contribution of TD through its corporate citizenship platform #TDReadyCommitment. With this kind of ongoing support, we can provide sus...tainable programmes and events to a wider public On the occasion of our #MOCAnniversary, we express our gratitude to our donors and supporters who believe in our mission and share our passion for contemporary art. Thank you @TD_Canada [ Gabriel Li] #mocatoronto #MOCAnniversary #thankyou

Explore the #JunctionTriangle this #MOCAnniversary weekend! Visit our neighbourhood partners and participate in our photo contest Enjoy delicious food and a drink @thedrake delectable Italian baked items from @fornocultura a refreshing beer or Dream Soda @hendersonbrewing or a handmade wood-fired pizza @pizzeriadefina Wood Fired Plus compare the flavours and aroma of freshly roasted coffee beans from @ethicaroasters and @halecoffee ... When you're enjoying your coffee, get inspired by a book from @houseofanansi or @artmetropole Find out more at https://bit.ly/MOCAnnivWknd

Tomorrow, October 23, don't miss out on the opportunity to join an online conversation between artists #KristaBelleStewart and #FatmaBucak with art historian Gabrielle Moser about their individual practices and our fall exhibition Acts of Erasure, organized in partnership with CONTACT Photography Festival. This exhibition brings the two artists' work into dialogue and opens space for conversations around political identity concerning land and heritage, methodologies of his...torical repression and interpretation, and the act and effects of erasure. We still have some tickets available so book your's now at http://bit.ly/BucakandStewart Bucak’s participation in public programmes is supported by Istituto Italiano Di Cultura. SAHA Dernegi provided support for Bucak's installation. A big thank-you goes to our Public Programmes Lead Sponsor Scotiabank. [ Toni Hafkenscheid. Installation view of "Acts of Erasure" at MOCA Toronto.] #mocatoronto #MOCASpotlights #MuseumfromHome #CONTACT2020

Our deepest thanks go to our long-standing MOCA supporters on the occasion of our #MOCAnniversary weekend! Thank you Karen Green Charitable Trust for your continuous support We are truly fortunate to have your trust in our mission to empower local artists and engage the Toronto art community while contributing to the international art scene and scholarship [ Apolonija Šušterši, installation shot from "Light Therapy" at MOCA Toronto, 2018.]... #mocatoronto #thankyou

The second video in "A River Waits Reply" is Antwerp-based artist Ria Pacquée's "As long as I see birds flying I know I am alive" (2015) selected by ARGOS from Brussels, Belgium. Pacquée has explored public life as a dynamic construction that shapes our identities as part of her artistic practice. In this video, she undercuts her material's anthropological and scientific potentiala disorienting strategy often used by the artist elsewhereby juxtaposing images of the sacr...ed with those of a worldly nature. Two recurring elements, clouds of drifting smoke and prowling birds, evoke a dreamlike and looming atmosphere, which makes even the most common gesture appear like being part of an age-old ritual, detaching these motifs from the geo-cultural realms they belong to. "As long as I see birds flying I know I am alive" is available to view until October 25 at https://moca.ca/a-river-waits-reply "A River Waits Reply"a screening series developed in partnership with six other international arts organizationspresents moving-image works from around the world as a poetic reply to this unprecedented year. [ Still from Ria Pacquée, "As long as I see birds flying I know I am alive," 2015.] #aRiverWaitsReply #MOCAatHome #MuseumFromHome #mocatoronto

A new addition to our Spotlights video programme is a video with artist #KristaBelleStewart, who discusses her artworks included in the exhibition "Acts of Erasure," currently at MOCA through January 3, 2021. "I wanted there to be a different experience in photography because we're always so used to seeing an image. Always in front of us, we're encountering the photo; the photo looks at us, the people look at us, and I didn't want that. And I wanted to challenge that tradit...ion in history as well." Krista Belle Stewart This video is available to watch on a monitor on the entry floor at MOCA only We currently remain open Thursday through Sunday. Plan your visit at https://moca.ca/visit "Acts of Erasure" is organized in partnership with CONTACT Photography Festival [ Still from "Spotlights: Krista Belle Stewart"] #mocatoronto #MOCASpotlights #MuseumfromHome #CONTACT2020

Come to visit us this weekend and participate in our #MOCAnniversary photo contest You have a chance to win one of these wonderful items from our generous neighbourhood partners! Drake Commissary gift voucher and meal kit Henderson Brewing Co variety pack Ethica Coffee Roasters whole bean coffee bag ... Hale Coffee Company whole bean coffee bag Art Metropole a tote & books #MocaToronto a tote and notebooks Find out more at https://bit.ly/MOCAnnivWknd #junctiontriangle #thankyou

The first work featured in our new online screening partnership "A River Waits Reply" is Berlin-based artist duo #PaulineBoudry & #RenateLorenz's "Silent" (2017), selected by Kadist San Francisco & Paris. Set on Oranienplatz in Berlin, where a refugee protest camp took place between 2012 and 2014, Musician Aérea Negrot’s rendition of John Cage’s iconic score "4’33," followed by a song composed for the film, amplifies a sense of anticipation and evokes silence as a form o...f civil disobedience in political arenas. As a result, this film urges us to challenge the normalization apparent in unspoken (but deeply felt) forms of bias and bigotry. "Silent" is available to view until October 18 at https://moca.ca/a-river-waits-reply "A River Waits Reply"a screening series developed in partnership with six other international arts organizationspresents moving-image works from around the world as a poetic reply to this unprecedented year. [ Still from Pauline Boudry and Renata Lorenz, "Silent," 2017. ] #aRiverWaitsReply #MuseumFromHome #mocatoronto

We sincerely thank the Lindy Green Family Foundation for their long-standing support! Ongoing support at this level has allowed us to offer incredible programming all the way through to our #MOCAnniversary weekend this weekend By sharing a belief in the power of contemporary art, we will strive to support and promote forward-thinking artistic experimentation and provide a community space for enrichment, discourse, collaboration and creativity [ Anne Amores from Nuit Bla...nche Toronto 2019] #thankyou #mocatoronto

Our new Spotlights video features artist #FatmaBucak, who discusses her artworks included in the exhibition "Acts of Erasure," currently on at MOCA through January 3, 2021. Fatma speaks how her practice negotiates and interrogates the ideological and conceptual conditions of borders. With various media like film, photography, and installation, she explores border regions through the themes of gender, mobility and the body Watch the video and more at moca.ca/spotlights... "Acts of Erasure" is organized in partnership with CONTACT Photography Festival. SAHA Dernegi provided support for Fatma Bucak. Bucak’s participation in public programmes is supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura. [ excerpt from "Spotlights: Fatma Bucak"] #mocatoronto #MOCASpotlights #MuseumfromHome #CONTACT2020

Thanks to the generous contribution from the Hal Jackman Foundation, we have been able to offer Free Friday Nights since February 2020. With this kind of ongoing support, we can provide sustainable programmes and events to a wider public On the occasion of our #MOCAnniversary, we express our gratitude to our donors and supporters who believe in our mission and share our passion for contemporary art. Thank you #HalJackmanFoundation [ Gabriel Li]... #mocatoronto

Our new #ShiftKey video features Montréal-based photographer and filmmaker Celia Perrin Sidarous's "Slip" (2018), selected by independent curator Daisy Desrosiers as part of her programmatic takeover. "Slip" asks us to consider questions about memories of the places and stories that we didn't witness, the shapes of memory, and embodied meaning of objects and their significance in shared rituals. In the video, the artist re-creates a family history through various material a...nd personal remnants, as she reflects on archival practices, notions of womanhood, and ideas of representation through image-making. "Slip" was shot on location in Athens, Delphi and Cape Sounio, Greece, as well as Larnaca, Cyprus and Montreal, Canada. Sidarous' "Slip" is available to view until October 23 at https://bit.ly/mocaShiftKey [ Film still from Celia Perrin Sidarous, "Slip," 2018. 16mm film, 1219, colour, silent.] #MOCAShiftKey #mcoatoronto #MuseumFromHome #canadianartist

Have you tried Indoor Jogging? This online booklet of scores offers meditative exercises that invite you to interact with everyday objects and experiment with sound We are thrilled to be extending this project online, until December 18th, 2020! Christopher Willes, one of the artists behind this project, shares a reflection on the process of creating Indoor Jogging:... "It was a challenge and delight to make this. Originally [Germaine and I] were going to do a workshop at MOCA but the pandemic cancelled that. So we took time, and imagined something else. We worked on it remotely the whole time. And I really learned a lot from our many long conversations. I'm thankful for that time to think together. We talked about kindness, daily practice, listening, power, and what it means to ask someone to do something which is maybe an essential characteristic of any score; a score as a way of asking." Enjoy brand-new scores recently added by the artists Germaine Liu and Christopher Willes. Check Indoor Jogging at https://bit.ly/IndoorJogging #mocatoronto #learningathome

This is the last weekend to enjoy Shelagh Keeley's exhibition "An Embodied Haptic Space" on Floor 4 Come to immerse yourself in her conceptual process that coalesces the past, the present and the future into an embodied relationship with her tarp paintings, a film projection and ephemeral wall drawing MOCA Anniversary Weekend with free admission from Friday, September 25 to Sunday, September 27... [Still from Shelagh Keeley's "Jardim do Ultramar / The Colonial Garden, Lisbon, Portugal" (2016)]