Kamias Triennial

10/07/2024

27/06/2024

🤝Open Invitation to Participate
𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙮 & 𝙆𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙝𝙖𝙣
🪡Activity with KT4 and Kiri Delana
Gallery TPW
July 4 to 13: Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, exact times variable

🔔Reminder, KT4 Long-Distance opens at Gallery TPW July 4. As part of the triennial’s inaugural exhibition, artist Kiri Dalena, a member of Filipino diasporic collective RESBAK, will be bringing the group’s “STOP THE KILLINGS” banner to Toronto. During the course of the exhibition, the banner text will be reconstituted to read “END GENOCIDE” in solidarity with Palestine and in recognition of global colonial violence. Dalena and KT4 invite you to informally kwentuhan—the Tagalog word for storytelling or chatting—as we work together to recompose the banner text. Visitors to the gallery can join the artist on a casual basis in this activity.

The large-scale banner was created in 2017 as a response to, then president, Rodrigo Duterte’s extrajudicial killings. Under the guise of a "war on drugs” Duterte’s death squads murdered Filipinos in the streets and in their homes without legal process, among them, dissenting voices of activists and journalists.

RESBAK’s original “STOP THE KILLINGS” banner has travelled with collective members, world-wide acting as call to action; a protest banner; a provocation and a point of convergence for mourners, activists, artists and others.

Retiring the worn original, the mourning pins used to spell out the text will be configured onto a new banner, in Toronto, to spell out “END GENOCIDE.”

📷RESBAK, STOP THE KILLINGS BANNER, 2017-Present, Canvas Cloth, Acrylic Pins. Courtesy of Kiri Dalena
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Visit the Kamias website (link in linktree) for more information about all of our upcoming 4th Kamias Triennial programming!

17/06/2024

⚡Party Announcement!⚡ Saturday, July 6, 1-5 pm! Come celebrate the official launch of the 4th Kamias Triennial and opening of Long-Distance at Gallery TPW (170 St. Helens Ave, ), on view July 4-29. There will be curated tunes 🎵🌴, delicious food by Manila Sentro Filipino Cuisine, and crushable summer drinks from our beverage sponsors 💦 with a featured performance by Xuan Ye and project by Dean Baldwin Lew. This event is free and all are welcome!🍍

The Kamias Triennial is an independent, itinerant, recurring, contemporary art event with roots in Asia and Canada. The 4th iteration, Long-Distance, features work by all 12 artists in the triennial:

Dean Baldwin Lew (Montréal),
Lena Cobangbang (Manila),
Kiri Dalena (Manila), ya
Cian Dayrit (Manila),
Erin Gee (Montréal),
Kolown (Manila),
Woojae Kim (Vancouver),
A.S.M. Kobayashi with Meredith Talusan and Maylee Todd (Toronto/Barryville/New York City/Los Angeles),
Okui Lala (Kuala Lumpur),
Sung Tieu (Berlin),
Mama’s Boy (Tanya & Olive Villanueva) (Manila),
Xuan Ye (Toronto),

KT4 Long-Distance examines distance and how interpretations of it shape and reshape our connections with one another and our surroundings. Since the last Triennial (2020), our perception of distance has been revealed as a myth, begging closer attention and widening our peripheries. Within this framework, contemporary artists experiment with hospitality, gathering, and connecting, collapsing our proximities.

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Special thanks to our programming partners Gallery TPW, Towards, The Plumb, MOCA. Huge thanks to SAVAC , Media Sponsor C Magazine , and our beverages sponsors Burdock Brewery , Carlsberg , and Perrier for their generous support.

KT4 is made possible with funding by the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario.

16/06/2024

📣 We are excited to announce the official artist list for the 4th Kamias Triennial Long( )Distance! 📣

The KT4 team is honoured to be working with 12 artists this year:

Dean Baldwin Lew (Montréal)
Lena Cobangbang (Manila)
Kiri Dalena (Manila)
Cian Dayrit (Manila)
Erin Gee (Montréal)
Kolown (Manila)
Woojae Kim (Vancouver)
A.S.M. Kobayashi with Meredith Talusan and Maylee Todd (Toronto/Barryville/New York City/Los Angeles)
Okui Lala (Kuala Lumpur)
Sung Tieu (Berlin)
Mama’s Boy (Tanya & Olive Villanueva) (Manila)
Xuan Ye (Toronto)

🌟Join us for exhibitions with Gallery TPW, Towards Gallery and The Plumb, along with a special screening at Paradise Theatre in conjunction with MOCA’s GTA24 Triennial.

🔔Stay tuned to our instagram for more details about our artists and upcoming programming dates!

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Special thanks to our programming partners Gallery TPW, Towards, The Plumb, MOCA. Huge thanks to SAVAC and C Magazine for their support.

KT4 is made possible by the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, with funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario.

13/06/2024

🌟The Kamias Triennial is here! 🌟 We’re excited to announce the launch of our 4th edition, Long-Distance, taking place July 4-29 in Toronto, Canada.

🗓July 4-29, Toronto, Canada.

The 4th Kamias Triennial (KT4) is a three-week event showcasing diverse contemporary art projects by international and Canadian artists. It includes exhibitions, performances and programming co-presented with partner organizations in Toronto.

Our curatorial theme, long-distance, examines how geographical, emotional, temporal, and relational distances shape and reshape our connections with one another and our surroundings. It questions the role of art and culture in bridging social and political divides and explores the transformative power of hospitality in resisting oppressive systems. It is especially poignant in light of the recent challenging years of pandemic, where we have all experienced fluctuating distances. We highlight affinities emerging from contemporary artists’ experiments with hospitality, gathering, connecting, humour, image-making, sound, performance, and relational practices.

Stay tuned to our instagram over the next few weeks to learn more about our artists and upcoming programming!
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The Kamias Triennial (founded 2014, Manila, Philippines) is an independent, itinerant, collectively curated event with roots in Asia and Canada. In a globalized art-world, we position ourselves through sustained relationships, an intimate scale and intersectional conversations. Formed around gathering and cultural exchange, we value disparate dialogues and aim to foster lateral relationships across socio-political, geographical, and imagined borders. We’ve adopted the Triennial model to unsettle the weight of power, the locus of clout that is synonymous with institutionalized and global art events implied by the beloved suffix “ennial.”

We acknowledge that the land and waters where we currently operate are the traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit.

02/04/2024

https://moca.ca/exhibitions/kamias-triennial/

Kamias Triennial is curating a screening of short films that will take place at Paradise Cinem as part of the GTA24 live programme.

31/01/2023

Patrick Cruz and Su-Ying Lee are pleased to welcome Karie Liao to the Kamias Triennial, as co-curator! ​Karie Liao is a community-driven art curator whose work engages public spaces and fosters relations to collectively inquire about contemporary issues.

In addition to her independent practice, she is currently Assistant Curator at the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Her most recent curatorial work Geofenced was a group exhibition of new site-specific artworks that investigated how augmented reality technology (AR) alters the environment by making spaces more accessible or by creating new barriers. From 2017 to 2022, she worked as a Content Strategist for Snap Inc., a technology company at the forefront of AR development which continues to inform her research interests.

Liao was the Co-founder/Curatorial Projects Coordinator for the Toronto Art Book Fair and has also held past curatorial and artistic director positions at Cape Breton University Art Gallery, Artscape Youngplace, Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, and the Textile Museum of Canada. She has written for BlackFlash, C Magazine, the Canadian Media Fund, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and Vie des
Arts.

She holds a BA in Art History and Cultural Studies from McGill University, and an MA in Art History and Curatorial Practice diploma from York University.

“What excites me about joining Kamias Special Projects collective is how its inquiries centre art and cultural production and consumption in Southeast Asia. I look forward to engaging in meaningful dialogue with my peers about emergences as well as what persists within these respective art-making ecologies. The prospect of contributing to the growing knowledge and interest around the urgencies, materialities, and collectivities of Southeast Asia and how they might intersect with local modalities within Canada is a compelling endeavour. KSP feels kindred and I am motivated by what might be revealed through conversation, collaboration, chance encounters, and other forms of exchange.”

18/05/2021

The Rise of Alternative Art Biennials:
Womanifesto, Bangkok Biennial, Kamias Triennial, Power Play SG
By Ho See Wah

This is part 2 of series on biennials. Part one in comments below.

https://www.artandmarket.net/analysis/2021/5/18/the-rise-of-alternative-art-biennials?fbclid=IwAR0_-ad5M_358djR4KFfOnH4_Td00D3scfPYk0oTXA8qkQkj59CAAFKFJoY

Womanifesto, Bangkok Biennial, Kamias Triennial, Power Play SG

31/03/2021

Carolina Magis Weinberg an artist who participated in the 3rd Kamias Triennial, wrote this thoughtful essay that brings together her relationship to the entwined histories of Mexico and the Philippines, her experiences in Manila and the creative and material choices in her work. It includes some evocative imagery that took me out of this place I've been for the past year.

16/03/2021

http://www.rqfields.printingyourart.paulpetro.com/exhibitions/570--turtle_kin_in_kind

Paul Petro Contemporary Art