MOCA Videos

Welcome to MOCA’s Videos where you find interviews with artists, talks and public programmes since our opening in 2018 in the Tower Automotive Building.

We will be continually expanding our collection to bring you art wherever you are. Visit our events calendar to attend future events.

Tours

For the first in our Spotlights programme, MOCA welcomes artist Yazan Khalili as he discusses his practice and his recently commissioned installation, Medusa, currently on at MOCA through November 15, 2020. Here, Yazan discusses how he became interested in facial recognition technologies and how the mythological figure of Medusa stands as a powerful metaphor of resistance.

Intervening A Sudden Beginning marked the opening of MOCA’s 2020 winter exhibitions on February 5, 2020 and took place within and alongside Carlos Bunga’s large-scale cardboard installation, Occupy.

Shelagh Keeley combines a series of tarp paintings from 1986, a film projection from 2016, and a brand-new ephemeral wall drawing — the latter of which she created on-site over the course of several weeks in January 2020.

Dornith Doherty will discuss her long-term photographic work Archiving Eden, an extensive project that documents the complex issues surrounding the role of science and human agency in preserving biodiversity. She will be joined by MOCA’s Learning Coordinator, Alexandra Brickman, as well as Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti and Ivana Obradovic, the facilitators of Archiving Eden: Exchange.

Marine biologist, Alan Emery, and journalist, Jonathon Gatehouse, discuss the immense changes occurring in the oceans and how these shifts are affecting Canada, a country with three ocean coasts

Bunga uses mass-produced materials such as cardboard, adhesive tape and household paint to produce site-specific, process-focused installations. Through his work, Bunga not only encourages viewers to rethink their experience of space and architecture, but also evokes the transient and fragile nature of urban structures.

Artist Shezad Dawood is joined by researcher Alice Xia Zhu for a conversation that addresses the fate of microplastics in marine and freshwater contexts, from the San Francisco Bay to the Arctic.

The curators of MOCA’s fall exhibition, Age of You, will share and overshare the ideas behind what they call “The Extreme Self.” What does it mean to be an individual today? A crowd? Do these terms still mean what they used to mean?

Age of You is a timely exhibition about how the self has become more extreme, and what it means to be an individual today.

Artist Mark Dion brings a massive, fully grown, deceased tree, along with its inhabitants, to MOCA for the museum’s first summer exhibition in the Tower Automotive Building.

Artist Mark Dion is joined by Marc Mayer for a lively discussion that focuses on the intersections between art and science in relation to nature and how these considerations manifest in his exhibition at MOCA.

In Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, an animated version of the artist Andy Holden guides us through the laws of physics in cartoons with characters including Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote.

Vasif Kortun, founding Director of Research and Programs, SALT Online, launched MOCA’s speaker series, The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be on October 1, 2017 at the University of Toronto. His talk “Questions on Institutions” explored institutional time frames, non-capitalist museum conditions, zombie institutions and survivalist expansions.