happy early fall from day 2 of the install of this body keeps me up at night show. I am really fucking tired right now but also Happy to Be Alive and getting to make gay disabled freak art in Toronto.
enjoy the sneak peak of the show above. THE OPENING PARTY IS THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 202five, 6:30- 9 PM. I KNOW WE DON’T LEAVE OUR HOUSES MUCH ANYMORE TORONTO BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU THERE. LET’S BE AWKWARD HOT ALIVEAND CELEBRATE TOGETHER.
There will be a short performance by the forever homie heroes LalForest and me talking and sharing some work ;) plus snacks by Palestine Bakeshop and samosas from your untie’s fav Scarborough spot. You can also invite people to the godamn Facebook event for the launch bc Zuch will not allow me to invite more than fifty people total.
if you can’t make it, please come through and check out the work and show. it’s up til october 31.
if you can’t make it to t’karonto, there are also multiple ways to book a virtual docent tour:
Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently”
https://calendly.com/tangledarts/rosa-robot-tour
Zoom one on one - iPad tour done by a staff member for one person or group
https://calendly.com/tangledarts/weekday-zoom-tour
Zoom Group tour - iPad tour open session on Saturday for a group
https://calendly.com/tangledarts/weekend-group-tour
September 24 2025 1:00-2:30pm EST
Disabled/ queer/trans/ BIPOC artists have been building movements and creating art before “disability justice” was a name. Come hang out with Zavisha Chromicz and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha as they reflect on their 30 year friendship, the ways they made crip art in cheap apartments on no money for healing and survival in the 90s and oughts, and how they’re making art work now . As part of This body keeps me up at night: 30 Years of LLPS, come witness these friends and comrades tracing working-class disabled, neurodivergent and survivor artwork practices across time
about the panelist friend:
Zavisha Chromicz (b. 1972, Poland) self-identifies as a queer fat trans mixed Roma self-taught artist who has been making community-based mixed media and fibre art for over 20 years. They have consistently made art as a medicine for survival. Their work explores disability in throwaway culture and the joy of queer debauchery, and honours the survivors of childhood and ancestral trauma. Early collaborators includes Will Munro.
They have worked on numerous community and fibre-based projects that explore trauma healing through pleasure, decadence and queer family making, colonialism and sexual violence, and disability justice. From 2003-2006 Chromicz was a member and co-facilitator of West Side Stitches, a queer punk makers collective by Will Munro and Jeremy Laing. Participants used and taught stitching, embroidery, applique, faggoting and many other fabric art and costuming techniques to make street art, costumes, installations and public art. From 2015-2016 Chromicz collaborated with Leroi Newbold on the Freedom Fighter Puppetry series for Black Lives Matter, Toronto.
Zoom accessibility: There will be ASL interpretation and auto-captioning available. For the Q&A portion, you can turn your microphones on to ask a question, or type your question using the Q&A function on Zoom, and someone will read it out for you. You can also ask a question in ASL by turning on your video. We invite you to make your space as comfortable as possible - move around, sit or lay down, have food or a drink nearby, and let us know using the chat function on Zoom if we can help with any access needs.
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/back-in-the-day-tickets-1704295316169?aff=oddtdtcreator
October 15 2025 time being confirmed but it’s either noon or 1
Co-presented by DASH
Come to this panel discussion with LLPS and disabled and neurodivergent artists Annanda DeSilva, Gem Hall and Wy Joung Kou. we’ll talk about coming into becoming artists/ making art as disability justice was emerging, and making disabled disability justice artwork now. Hang out with us as we talk about the current state of DJ art and the future giant challenges we imagine and big dreams we desire to manifest.
about the panelists:
Annanda DeSilva (she/they) is a mixed-race, chronically ill queer artist, born and raised in Tkaronto/ Toronto. Steeped for forty years in the city that shaped her, Annanda is now making art and building relationships with people and land in a small town in Mi’Kma’ki / Nova Scotia. Their practice includes community skill sharing, “trash” repurposing and improvised/ adapted techniques in painting, fibre arts, poetry and collage.
Gem Hall is a community based mixed media artist with a focus on illustration, film, costume design, makeup art, textiles, writing, harp, ritual & working with plants as a means of survival & language for existing between many worlds & ways of being. They are also deeply engaged in non-institutional care work including 1-on-1 & group peer support, tarot reading, assistance for queer & trans artists & writers living with disabilities, abuse survivor safety protocols, death & grief work, as well as cultural support in the Roma, Gypsy & Traveller community.
Wy Joung Kou is an interdisciplinary artist and arts worker based in Toronto. Their body of work includes mosaic, public art, performance, composition, video and installation. Wy-J has exhibited, produced commissioned work, and gained recognition as an independent mosaic artist within the Toronto disability arts sector. They have been a Performing Member of RAW Taiko since 2019 and a core staff member as of 2023. Prior to that, they worked for nearly a decade with ReDefine Arts in the realms of community-engaged art, permanent public art, large scale mosaic production, digital storytelling, and more. www.wyjoungkou.com
Zoom accessibility: There will be ASL interpretation and auto-captioning available. For the Q&A portion, you can turn your microphones on to ask a question, or type your question using the Q&A function on Zoom, and someone will read it out for you. You can also ask a question in ASL by turning on your video. We invite you to make your space as comfortable as possible - move around, sit or lay down, have food or a drink nearby, and let us know using the chat function on Zoom if we can help with any access needs.
Registration Link: TBD, watch this space
thanks for playing. what a time to be gay and alive, indeed.
love
L
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