This event will be a conversation with Sister Co-Resister and collaborators to their share letters written to Spirits, the intentions behind each member’s ritual practice, and other processes involved in the making of the collective séance, My sister by the river, performed Fri, Nov 22 at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E. My sister by the river was conceived and created by Annie Wong with Nedda Baba, Yara El Safi, Frizz Kid, and co-produced by Marilyn Fernandes and Pamila Matharu.

Sister Co-Resister’s performances are a part of the Biennial’s weekly Performance and Reading Program: Isonomia in Toronto, a series which takes place within Adrian Blackwell’s two interrelated structures at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E and the Small Arms Inspection Building. Invited guests include poet CAConrad, artists Camilo Godoy and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Apache violinist Laura Ortman, RISE Edutainment, and percussionist Marshall Trammell.

Image: Claire Lim and Emily Mun, to my past and future ancestors. Photo by Stefan Hagen, Open Source Gallery, 2019. Courtesy Annie Wong.

Performance Program: Isonomia in Toronto

Small Arms Inspection Building (2019)
1352 Lakeshore Road East
Mississauga ON
L5E 1E9

November 23

Bio

Sister Co-ResisterMarilyn Fernandes (born in Kuwait City, Kuwait; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada),Pamila Matharu (born in Birmingham, United Kingdom; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada), and Annie Wong (born and lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) – is a feminist art collective focused on collaborative art-making and trans-disciplinary exchange. Crisscrossing social practice with intersectional feminism and contemporary art as radical acts of solidarity building and space-making with underrepresented women and non-binary voices; particularly queer/trans, mad/disabled, Indigenous, Black and racialized artists and thinkers.