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VIVO Media Arts Centre is excited to announce its Winter and Spring 2025 programming, a season that invites audiences to reflect on the urgent questions shaping our world today — questions of technology, ecology, and the body. Through a diverse range of experimental works — spanning theatre, installation, media arts, and performance — VIVO continues its commitment to support cross-disciplinary dialogue and pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. This season features a series of residencies, exhibitions, public discussions, a screening, workshops, a publication and collaborative experiences, each exploring new ways of reconnecting with the tangible and questioning our increasingly mediated existence.
With a focus on participatory and immersive practices, the Winter/Spring 2025 season offers opportunities to engage directly with artists, their creative processes, and the critical conversations shaping their work. This includes a residency with two international artists exploring Afrofuturist visions and the future of human connection, an interactive installation examining the environmental costs of digital culture, and works that disrupt conventional narratives of memory, mental health, accessibility and technological dependency.
We look forward to seeing you at VIVO soon!
Residency, Community Engagement, Studio Showing
January 26–February 7, 2025
Artists: Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe (DR Congo), Majula Drammeh (Sweden), Franck Moka (Congo), Thabiso Persson (Sweden)
Location: VIVO Media Arts
Community Engagement: January 28, 2025 | 4-6 pm
Studio Showing and Discussion: February 7, 2025 | 5-7 pm
Moderators: Nadia Nascimento, Sherlen Archibald
In this residency, artists Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe and Majula Drammeh will develop What is Already Here?, an interactive theatre installation that invites audiences to reconsider the urgency of reconnection in a world dominated by digital technologies. Using discarded electronic waste, the installation forms part of a larger Afrofuturist inquiry into collective belonging, resistance to digital dependencies, and the ecological impact of the global information economy. The public is invited to join the artists for a special studio showing and discussion.
This residency is part of the 20th PuSh Festival.
Co-Presented with The PuSh Festival and Community Partnered with: We The Roses.
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Video Out Screening
Thursday, March 6, 2025 | 7 PM
Location: VIVO Media Arts
Call for Submissions Applications Open: January 15, 2025
Call for Submissions Deadline: February 18, 2025
Video Out’s upcoming screening invites audiences into a discussion on storytelling through a fresh lens. Through a series of experimental video works, artists will explore non-traditional narrative forms, subverting classic structures and character archetypes to challenge how stories are told in contemporary media.
Image Credit: Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse Sets.
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Installation
April 3–12, 2025
Artists: The Automatic Message (Trevor Jacobson & Tanya Goehring)
Location: VIVO Media Arts
Opening Reception: April 3, 2025 | 6–9 PM
Artist Talk: April 5, 2025 | 2 PM
EMDR is a four-channel immersive film installation by The Automatic Message: Trevor Jacobson and Tanya Goehring. Drawing from Jacobson’s personal experiences with PTSD, this work uses experimental media and electronic music to depict a journey through mental health recovery. The installation explores themes of memory, trauma, and the ways in which we process and reframe our lived experiences.
Installation
May 15–23, 2025
Artist: Kevin Day
Location: VIVO Media Arts
Opening Reception: May 15, 2025 | 6–9 PM
Artist Talk: May 17, 2025 | 2 PM
the medium is the environment is a video and installation project by Kevin Day that interrogates the environmental costs of the digital age. By blending animation with fog machine technology to represent carbon emissions, Day’s work underscores the hidden materiality of our digital lives and its impact on both human and environmental health.
Residency and Exhibition
June 19–25, 2025
Artist: Eric Cheung
Location: VIVO Media Arts
Guest Contributor: Cristian Gonzalez
Opening Reception: June 19, 2025 | 6–9 PM
Exhibition: June 20–25, 2025 | 12–6 PM
Through his TIERS installation, street dance artist and choreographer Eric Cheung will use laser projection and motion capture technology to explore the layers of human existence—both physical and intangible. This interactive work aims to reveal the often invisible relationships between movement, memory, and perception, encouraging deeper self-awareness and connection with others.
Publication
Launch Date: TBD
Contributors: Terreane Derrick, m. patchwork monoceros, Eris Nyx, Marcelo Ponce, Kay Slater, and Brandon Wint
Edited by jaz whitford and Kendra Place
Designed by Eris Nyx
VIVO Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of Artists on Access, a collection of prose, poetry, messages, and dispatches from artists shaping the conversation around art, creativity, accessibility, and disability justice. This publication features powerful contributions from artists who are redefining the conditions and possibilities of accessibility within the arts.
Artists on Access will be available in print, audio, and digital formats. More details on the official launch date and purchasing information will be announced soon.
Banner Credit: Diverge, Eric Cheung