FIELD RESEARCH
WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY, 2025
Field Research is a workshop series inviting South Asian youth to unearth, investigate and share their families’ migration stories. Over the course of four gatherings, participants used reading, discussion, audio archiving and natural dyeing to navigate the questions: How did you arrive here? How can we work together to document our collective histories? How will this inform where we want to go next? The project culminated in a public group exhibition showcasing textile and audio works developed throughout the workshops.
The workshop series was a part of PEERS Public Projects - an artist residency program that supports the development of community-engaged public artworks produced by Whippersnapper Gallery. The program includes a horizontal mentorship model designed for emerging artists and collectives to deepen their skills in creating consent-based, ethical, and rigorous community-engaged and public art projects.
Participating Artists: Alisha Ahmed, Safa Patel, Abina Sathiyaseelan, Rania Qureshi, Kanniga Varatharajah
TORONTO FOOD STORIES
FOODSHARE TORONTO, 2024
Co-created by Moe Pramanick and Hansel Igbavboa, Toronto Food Stories is an artist residency joining artists with farmers, food workers and community organizers working to defend the right to food in their own neighbourhoods. The residency aims to share the stories of the people and movements that are transforming our food system, bringing us closer to realizing our right to food, and ultimately achieving food sovereignty in Toronto. The residency is a collaboration between FoodShare Toronto, Emmett Avenue Community Garden, Healing As One, Malvern Family Resource Center and Black Creek Community Farm.
Toronto Food Stories is a project of the Right to Food Campaign. This campaign calls on the City of Toronto to develop a new food charter, in consultation with those most impacted by food insecurity and poverty, and encourages our city to imagine a future where the right to food is realized.
Participating Artists: Raoul Olou, Ehiko Odeh, Nathan Baya and Sun Ravichandran.
Learn more about the residency at foodshare.net
REALISED, RE-IMAGINED
FOODSHARE TORONTO, 2022
Curated by Moe Pramanick, Realised, Re-imagined is a group art exhibition exploring the possibilities of a future where the right to food is realised for everyone in Toronto. On view at Flemo Farm from September - December 2022
Exhibiting artists: Nala Haileselassie, Ehiko Odeh, Sam Anis and Nabil Shash.
View the online gallery at https://www.realised-reimagined.net/.