Director
Alternative Toronto
2016—present
Alternative Toronto is a digital archive and exhibition space that documents Toronto’s arts and activist communities of the 1980s and 1990s. The project uses the Omeka CMS and a community-based archive management process to create digital collections of user-contributed materials. In the project’s first iteration, we collected over 500 unique artifacts, facilitated eighteen collections and co-curated four exhibits. The next phase of Alternative Toronto will feature an oral history podcast, currently in development.
Alternative Toronto has received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, and was the recipient of a 2019 ActiveHistory.ca award for exemplary practices of active history.
Alternative Toronto
2016—present
Alternative Toronto is a digital archive and exhibition space that documents Toronto’s arts and activist communities of the 1980s and 1990s. The project uses the Omeka CMS and a community-based archive management process to create digital collections of user-contributed materials. In the project’s first iteration, we collected over 500 unique artifacts, facilitated eighteen collections and co-curated four exhibits. The next phase of Alternative Toronto will feature an oral history podcast, currently in development.
Alternative Toronto has received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, and was the recipient of a 2019 ActiveHistory.ca award for exemplary practices of active history.
EXHIBITS
Curator/cartographer
Rocky Dobey’s Street Art: A Counter-Map
With Rocky Dobey and Sofia Lopez
2017
This exhibit documented the work of Toronto street artist Rocky Dobey, who has mounted anonymous public installations on the surfaces of the city for the last forty years. It also served as an introduction to the archive and its mandate.
Rocky Dobey’s Street Art: A Counter-Map
With Rocky Dobey and Sofia Lopez
2017
This exhibit documented the work of Toronto street artist Rocky Dobey, who has mounted anonymous public installations on the surfaces of the city for the last forty years. It also served as an introduction to the archive and its mandate.
Co-curator, with Simon Vickers
Toronto’s Days of Action
2018
This exhibit invited visitors to contribute materials from the historic Days of Action protests against Ontario Premier Mike Harris. The materials reflect a ground-up perspective on the movement that privileges the participation of grassroots community organizations.
A version of this exhibit was mounted by the Hancock Student Advisory Committee at Hart House fron March 6—22, 2020.
Toronto’s Days of Action
2018
This exhibit invited visitors to contribute materials from the historic Days of Action protests against Ontario Premier Mike Harris. The materials reflect a ground-up perspective on the movement that privileges the participation of grassroots community organizations.
A version of this exhibit was mounted by the Hancock Student Advisory Committee at Hart House fron March 6—22, 2020.
Co-curator, with Simon Vickers, Tam Rayan, and Rachele Clemente-Gottardi
OPIRG Toronto: An Activist History
2019
This exhibit featured selected materials from the archive of the Toronto chapter of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group, or OPIRG, and followed a live interactive archive event the group organized in August 2019.
OPIRG Toronto: An Activist History
2019
This exhibit featured selected materials from the archive of the Toronto chapter of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group, or OPIRG, and followed a live interactive archive event the group organized in August 2019.
Heritage Toronto
Sounds Like Toronto
2020
Materials from the Lilian Radovac and GB Jones collections at Alternative Toronto are featured in the digital exhibition Sounds Like Toronto, which was produced by Heritage Toronto and Digital Museums Canada.
Sounds Like Toronto
2020
Materials from the Lilian Radovac and GB Jones collections at Alternative Toronto are featured in the digital exhibition Sounds Like Toronto, which was produced by Heritage Toronto and Digital Museums Canada.
