Facilitators : YTB, SHEEEPschool, Ric Amis, Andrea Nellis, Lilian Radovac, Peter Norman, and Pat Lewis
Panel Discussion: What’s it like living in an artist co-op?
Friday, January 31, 2025
6:30pm - 10:30pm EST (Presentation will start at 7:00)
at BAAA! (300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114)
Workshop: Re-envisioning the future through co-living
Saturday, February 1, 2025
3pm - 6pm EST at BAAA! (300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114)
All materials + snacks provided
Register on Eventbrite
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Younger than Beyonce (YTB) Gallery is a collectively-run, nomadic organization supporting millennial artists and emerging artists of any generation. We began in 2014 as a DIY response to the exhibition Younger Than Jesus, the New Museum’s first triennial of emerging artists, which problematically defined our generation as consumers rather than producers. We provided emerging artists with paid opportunities to experiment and exhibit their work at our gallery in Regent Park, and nomadically through collaborations with the Feminist Art Gallery, Margin of Eras Gallery, The Public Studio, Art Gallery of Ontario, Luminato Festival, Gardiner Museum, Katzman Contemporary, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Images Festival, and MOCA Toronto. Most recently, our work explores collaborative pedagogy in the arts, inviting emerging practitioners through evolving projects with Gudskul Ecosystem (Jakarta), Flux Factory (New York) and Collective Collective (Toronto).
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🏡 On Friday, Ric Amis (co-founder of Beaver Hall Co-op and Lakeshore Village Artist Co-op (LVAC)), Andrea Nellis (resident of Arcadia Housing Co-op), and Lilian Radovac (resident of LVAC) will explore the hopes, opportunities, and realities of building and living in artist co-ops over the past 40 years. They will share insights on what the future of living collectively looks like—for those already doing it and for those planning to—through a panel discussion followed by a Q&A.
🤝 On Saturday, SHEEEPschool will lead us through a participatory workshop to help think through and re-imagine what living collectively looks like – we will call out the rules, systems, and norms that we want to see change, and reimagine a future that centres collective living and resource sharing. With special guests Peter Norman and Pat Lewis from LVAC.
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Each module of the HATCH project features a Friday night talk and a Saturday afternoon workshop on a delicious research nugget. YTB and SHEEEP.school will share what we have learned, introduce you to the people we met through our research, and facilitate a participatory workshop for all of us who are eager to collaboratively transform our living and working conditions. Each module’s conversations will inform the direction of the next—come to one, or to all! Together, we hope to answer: how can artists co-create the conditions to meet their our basic needs, without replicating the logics of settler colonialism and an exploitative creative sector?
Limited capacity
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