Olivia Shortt (they/them; Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation, Ireland) is a weirdo, noisemaker, video artist, wannabe fashion icon, curator, and composer.
Shortt has been described as a “glittering, rising star in the exploratory music firmament” by Musicworks Magazine and named by the CBC as one of “6 Indigenous composers you need to know in 2024”. Shortt has performed at The Whitney Biennial (NYC), The Holland Festival (Amsterdam) and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC). Iconic moments include appearing and playing saxophone on CBC Kids’ ‘Gary the Unicorn’ and lending their voice off-screen in Stephen King’s ‘In the Tall Grass’ and Season 3 of ‘Chucky’.
Program
Difference of a Shared Spirit
Storyteller and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Shortt and transmedia artist and UofT professor of black studies and the archive SA Smythe are invited to collaborate with 2024 TBA exhibition artist Maria Hupfield in relation to her commission The Supernatural Powers of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan). Working alongside one another, each performer breathes life into Maria’s work, expanding the […]
September 21
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Program
Carrying Patterns: Sound and Gesture
Ange Loft and Olivia Shortt invite participants to take part in an interdisciplinary workshop that investigates patterns found in pottery shards, unearthed from archaeological sites across the city. Participants will be guided in developing an understanding of these patterns through a clay sculpting activity and a movement exercise, extending the patterns across mediums to recall […]
October 6
1:00pm – 2:30pm
