“All-Seeing Work, Forever Work” by Kamika Peters co-presented by Trinity Square Video

Installation by Kamika Peters with exhibition essay by Vince Rozario.

Through found objects, images, wisdom and industrial materials, “All-Seeing Work, Forever Work” serves to visually express a personal and collective experience. The artist’s primary focus being to overcome isolation and build relationships while sharing a glimmer of the abundance of creative power found at centre.

On Saturday May 6, join Kamika Peters for a workshop exploring environmental destruction, individual capacities, and collective justice.

This project was developed through Mayworks’ Labour Arts Catalyst in conversation with Rising Tide Toronto, a group that engages in environmental activism through Indigenous solidarity work.

Kamika Peters is an emerging multidisciplinary artist, some sites of her exploration have been Project Creative Users, Sketch Working Arts, and the Watah Theatre. In 2020, she received an Emerging Artist Award from Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Collective and personal justice through art, performance and visual arts are the main focus of Kamika’s practice.

Rising Tide Toronto is a grassroots collective that challenges environmental injustice and the root causes of climate change on Turtle Island through direct action, in solidarity with people’s struggles locally and globally. Rising Tide Toronto engages in environmental activism through Indigenous solidarity work.

Founded in 1971, Trinity Square Video is one of Canada’s first artist-run centres and its oldest media arts centre. Trinity Square is a not-for-profit, charitable organization. For 50 years, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Their activities are guided by a goal to increase members’ and audiences’ understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity Square strives to create supportive environments, encouraging artistic and curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education, production and presentation supports. As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception, materiality and the virtual. Trinity Square consider all artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures, inter-organizational relationships, et cetera.

Founded in 1986, Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts is a community-based festival which annually presents new works by a diverse and broad range of artists, who are both workers and activists. Our programming presents bold, insightful, responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour.