Meet Home + House More Than Anything the Exhibition artists Edward Sko and Krys Verrall on Saturday October 21, 2023 from 2:00PM-4:00PM
Home + House More Than Anything the Exhibition is an aesthetic conversation in material form between Krys Verrall and Edward Sko to rethink experiences of housing scarcity.
Big Pond Small Fish is pleased to be part of the sixth instalment of the Mecklenburgh Square Garden Project Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1 http://mecklenburghsquaregarden.org.uk/art/
The Farm and the City and the Radio UK QR code released September 25, 2021
Big Pond Small Fish and Krys Verrall are pleased to present The Farm and the City and the Radio Jam, January 19, at 2pm EST, a film screening and conversation between farmers and artists.
Conversation with Andrew Lochhead and Darren Reinhart from Artscape Gibraltar Point, Connor Allaby and Jhamela Stapleton from Black Creek Community Farm, Beatrice Lego from the Edible Campus, University of Toronto Scarborough and Ramisa Tasfia (moderator).
Conversation preceded by three Farm Tour shorts made over July 2020 in collaboration with three urban farms.
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Watch live on YouTube here
The Farm and the City and the Radio (FCR) is an interactive sound work about what feeds and connects us. Over the summer and fall of 2020 Big Pond Small Fish worked with farmers, artists, a community radio station and an art gallery to create eight short sound works, three "Farm Tour" videos, and two ASL accessible videos.
The Farm and the City and the Radio is created by Big Pond Small Fish and Krys Verrall in collaboration with Artscape Gibraltar Point, Black Creek Community Farm, the Edible Campus, UTSC, RadioFWD, Doris McCarthy Gallery, and artists Aliyah Mvita, Andrew Zukerman, Gaitrie Persaud, Heather Rappard, Jon Inaki Etxeberria, and Kachely Peters.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series Artists Gita Hashemi and Krys Verrall in Conversation
Moderated by Ann MacDonald
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In this conversation artists Krys Verrall and Gita Hashemi talk about their current projects, their link to Doris McCarthy Gallery and the thematics and processes that connect them.
Krys Verrall’s current project, “The Farm and the City and the Radio” is an interactive sound work about what feeds and connects us. Over the summer and fall of 2020 Krys with Big Pond Small Fish arts organization worked with farmers, artists, a community radio station and the Doris McCarthy Art Gallery to create eight short sound works, three “Farm Tour Videos” and two ASL accessible videos.
Gita Hashemi’s upcoming “A Fool’s Year in Paradise" is a yearlong meditation on land, gender, colonialism and art-making, constructed around four periods of residency, corresponding with seasons, at Fool’s Paradise, Torontonian painter Doris McCarthy’s studio residence. Through real and imagined conversations with McCarthy, IBPOC womxn artists and Indigenous knowledge keepers, this project re-imagines "landscape," collectivizes the personal, and creates and compiles a site-specific analog, digital and living archive.
Krys Verrall is a founding member of Big Pond Small Fish. She has been instrumental in developing the organization’s philosophical approach to collaboration with vulnerable participants and those who typically encounter barriers to artmaking. Her approach elicits and then collaboratively develops the stories, drawings and perspectives of participants into experimental choral, art and video productions.
Award-winning artist, curator and writer Gita Hashemi’s experimental transmedia practice spans over thirty years, and encompasses work that draws on visual, media, performance, site specific and live art strategies. Exploring social relations and the interconnections of language and culture, Hashemi’s work centers on marginalized histories and contemporary politics.
