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Past Residencies
The Drawing Forest: A 5-Hour Drawing Exercise by Heather Frise and Anita Matusevics
Interview with artists Heather Frise & Anita Matusevics 1. What inspired you to want to draw with others? what led to this impulse of co-creating large scale drawings with community and passerbys? We met at the birthday picnic of a mutual friend and somehow very quickly agreed that we should one day create some form of drawing school based around perception, creativity and links to nature... Drawing is something anyone can do. We all have the capacity to make marks with a pencil on paper.…
Origins & Endings: Photography by Sebastian Portillo
Reflections from the artist Origins & Endings brings together two projects: Notes on Biology and The Day I Destroyed the World, both collections developed with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico. Notes on Biology is, metaphorically, the longest conversation I have ever had with my father. It begins with his notes on biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and more, written during his youth at university, years before I was born. Within those notes I…
Poetic Assembly: An invitation to co-create a mobile poetry library
We’re calling on our community to help us co-create a mobile poetry library. Poetic Assembly is an interdisciplinary project and newly formed collective of cultural workers, united by a shared vision of creating opportunities for decolonized study and gathering. Our goal is to develop a mobile library focused on circulating poetry to foster community engagement and preservation. We view poetry as an active method for cultivating relationality and enlivened perception, helping us see beyond…
Look, Listen, Draw: A Collaborative Exploration of Nature, Place and Storytelling
Take a break and come draw with us. Wednesday, July 16, 2025. 10am - 1pm Friday, July 18, 2025. 4pm-6pm We are creating an “imaginary line,” an immersive and participatory drawing practice that engages artists and community members in an exploration of nature, memory, ritual, and seasonal rhythms. Through large-scale collaborative drawing workshops, we will investigate how collective mark-making can foster deeper connections to urban nature and each other. During this PlaySpace residency, we…
Mystic Air: Coleman Hell’s ode to air conditioners
From June 4 to 11, 2025, artist-musician Coleman Hell presents an exhibition on air conditioners called Mystic Air... Join us for Coleman's exhibition opening, and the start of patio season, on Saturday June 7, 2025 from 4-7pm. Air conditioners often go unnoticed. Noble beasts bearing the cost of human comfort. Their brackets, bolted into the city-skin, carry the weight of our existence. AC= All Colours: the full spectrum of emotions transmuted through our body heat. Private feelings floating…
Elixir of Life: Alek Phan Reflects on Water
Under The Orange Sun by Alek Phan Trúc Artist Statement Nobel Prize-winning physicist C.V. Raman, who was awarded the prize in 1930 for his work on ‘the scattering of light”, once observed that we often take water for granted, forgetting that it is one of the most powerful forces on Earth, and that “the true elixir of life is water”. Water has shaped our planet’s history and remains a vital force in the ongoing story of life. When silt-laden freshwater merges with the salty sea, the particles…
An Invitation with Returning River
The Returning River collective and the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence invite you for an art + community gathering in celebration of Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Free and open to all! Friday September 20, 2024 5:30pm Storytelling walk. Meet at Huron Square. 6:30pm Performances at Scadding Court, starting outside the Lab's PlaySpace before moving indoors. The event opens with a storytelling walk through Chinatown led by artist Kwoi Gin, who will regale you with funny, tender,…
Renaissance in Residence: Paper
Poster art by Renaissance, 2024. Photo courtesy of the artist. August 23-24, 2024, Toronto-based street artist Renaissance will be creating work in the Lab's PlaySpace. A micro-residency. Artist Statement Paper originated from a tree that stood as a beacon for many generations as a self-sustaining ecosystem before it was cut down severed from its roots taken from its community broken down altered and changed into the form we know now as paper. This current project that I am embarking on is…
Nava Waxman working with Blue Gestures and other archival images
A short interview with artist Nava Waxman whose creative research is on view in the Lab's PlaySpace from August 9 to 23, 2024. Thank you for sharing your art with the public! How was it creating in the space? I wasn’t sure what to expect and how it would unfold, but I felt I was guided by the possibility of bringing some photographic images that communicate with the Lab, the community, and the physical space as a shipping container, which I felt is such a liminal and transitory space. And I…
Longing Belonging Redux
Poster art by Kwoi Gin We're proud to launch our new home with a poster art series by artist Kwoi Gin. Longing Belonging Redux is a vivid, powerful assemblage of tableaux vivant dealing with unarchived history. The exhibition is on view July 17 to 31, 2024 at the Lab's new PlaySpace at 707 Dundas St West. "My father came under the guise of PaperSon," writes Kwoi, during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act when Canada denied Chinese people from immigrating on the basis of race, after using tens…
Patio Party this Friday!
If you're in Toronto, drop by a Patio Party we're co-hosting in the courtyard at Scadding Court Community Centre (707 Dundas St W). It's a free, family-friendly outdoor event with a special performance at 9pm (hint: flash mob). There will be art and music by members of the Lab, as well as pop-up vendors, crafting areas for all ages, and food of many flavours. Our friends at Long Time No See Collective also have a poster art exhibition on view at Scadding Court. Kwoi Gin will be exhibiting…