8:00PM – 11:00PM //
Kick-Off Party

The Power Plant
231 Queens Quay West
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2G8
Canada

10:00 AM //
INTRODUCTIONS

Land Acknowledgment
Garry Sault, Ojibway Elder, Storyteller, Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation
 

Welcoming Remarks
Gaëtane Verna
Nato Thompson

10:30 AM //
SECTION 1: LAND

Beyond extractive capitalism, we may imagine multiple material, social, affective and spiritual relations to “land.” Presenters in this section address themes of colonialist and capitalist accumulation by dispossession; indigenous land epistemologies; environmental justice in a more-than-human world; and questions of refugeeism, hospitality, borders and belonging.

Framer: Wanda Nanibush (Canada)
Huhana Smith (New Zealand)
Bouchra Khalili (France/Morocco)
Postcommodity (US)
 

11:30 AM //
CONVERSATION

Coco Fusco (US)
Elvira Dyangani Ose (Spain/London)

11:55 AM //
IN LOVING MEMORY

Theodore Rehn Purves (US)

12:05 PM //
SECTION 2: LOVE and LIVING

The realm of everyday practice is a space for resistance. Artists and storytellers in this section speak to the generative power of the “ordinary” and of loving actions and affects. They consider how a radical politics of care; queer forms of kinship and worldmaking; and alternative modes of re-membering, witnessing and healing embody decolonial praxis.

Framer: Syrus Marcus Ware (Canada)
Kent Monkman (Canada)
Wael Shawky (Egypt)
Crack Rodriguez (El Salvador)
Máret Ánne Sara (Norway)
 

1:20 PM //
LUNCH

2:30 PM //
KEYNOTE

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (India/US)
This keynote is generously supported by Partners In Art
 

3:00 PM //
STATEMENT: STANDING ROCK

Cannupa Hanska Luger (US)

3:10 PM //
SECTION 3: LABOR

Precarity is a defining feature of late capitalism. Presenters in this section speak to the conditions of urban and rural marginality, austerity politics, anticapitalist organizing and emergent modes of assembling, solidarity and collectivity.

Framer: Carlos Marentes (US)
Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge (Canada)
Tings Chak (Canada)

4:10 PM //
BREAK

4:25 PM //
PERFORMANCE

Allora and Cazadilla (US/Puerto Rico)

4:40 PM //
STATEMENT: TURKEY

Vasif Kortun (Turkey)

4:50 PM //
CONVERSATION

Chto Delat (Russia)
Nato Thompson (US)

5:10 PM //
SECTION 4: LIBERTY

Now is the moment for transnational movements of solidarity, especially in the face of the global turn to the right. Presenters in this section address the politics and aesthetics of revolutionary praxis, the grammars of (neo)coloniality, and the possibilities for anticapitalist organizing, antiracist solidarity, and queer and trans liberation.

Framer: Srećko Horvat (Croatia)
Sylvia McAdam (Canada)
Nabil al-Raee (Palestine)
Kinana Issa (Canada/Syria)
 

6:20 PM //
CLOSING REMARKS

Nasim Asgari (Tehran-born, Toronto-based poet and artist)
 

8:00 PM – 2:20 AM //
DANCE PARTY

Queer City: Book Launch & Dance Party, hosted by Musagetes and ArtsEverywhere at the Glad Day Bookshop (499 Church St, Toronto).