Recent Activity
Recent Presentations
“Surviving Heritage: Colonial Heritage and Counter-Colonial Medicine at Kingston’s Prison for Women,” (panelist) in Social Heritage, Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS) conference, “London Heritages 2025: Critical Questions – Contemporary Practice,” University of Greenwich, June 25-27, 2025.
“Archiving the Unthinkable: The Archivist of the Abolitionist Archive is a Poet,” (panelist) in Process: Art/Perfomance, “ACA at 50: Critical Reflections, Envisioning the Future,” Association of Canadian Archivists conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, June 9-12, 2025.
“Just Memory: Abolitionist Archival Practices,” (panelist) Transforming Justice: Joint National Conference of Critical Perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies, Victoria, BC, May 14-16, 2025.
"Trans-Audiencing: Suspended Together in Uncertainty," in Creative Approaches to Epistemic Violence (panelist), Northeast Modern Languages Association conference, Philadelphia PA, March 6-9, 2025.
Recent Publications
“The Archivist of the Abolitionist Archive is a Poet: Justice and Collective Memory Work,” (peer reviewed) in Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research (IJR), Transforming Justice, vol. 15: Spring 2026,
“Violence beyond Sims: White aesthetic victory and monumental public art,” (peer reviewed) in Art & the Public Sphere, Afterlives of Public Art, vol. 14, 2025.
“The State of the World: Abolitionist Reading Practices,” (peer reviewed) in RCL: Journal of Communication and Languages, "Decolonizing Visuality: Looks, Consciousness, Ways of Thinking and Acting," no. 57, spring 2023.
“Even Now the Sun: Monuments to Impermanence,” (peer reviewed), in Public Journal 64: Beyond Unsettling: Methodologies for Decolonial Futures. Leah Decter & Carla Tauntan eds., winter 2022.
Recent Exhibitions & INSTALLATIONS
up to this moment, integrated artwork at Mount Dennis LRT station, Eglinton line 5, Toronto, 2026.
New Acquisitions, Group exhibition, Burnaby Art Gallery, September 12–November 2, 2025.
Conference of the Neighbours, Ethennonnhawahstihnen' Community Centre, Toronto, 2024.
a guest + a host = a ghost, Agnes (formerly Agnes Etherington Art Centre), Kingston, ON, 2022.
The Beat Goes On, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2021.