The collective art persona of Shannon Garden-Smith, Corrie Jackson, Emily Smit-Dicks and Polina Teif

Message to Japan

We are holding you in our thoughts.

Artist information

XXXX is the collective art persona of Shannon Garden-Smith, Corrie Jackson, Emily Smit-Dicks and Polina Teif. We are four artists who make work marked by a sympathy for serialization and the corporeal. Our interdisciplinary practice employs video, installation, painting, drawing and photo-based work. While demonstrating an understanding of the aesthetic, our work values the contemporaneity of ideas/concepts as they relate to our cultural context.

Message to Japan

Hello from Toronto, Canada! Hope everything is going well over there in Japan.  Hopefully some of the things we have made will bring some smiles to your faces.  The world remembers and cares and is trying to help.  All the best.

Artist information

Tom Ngo is a mixed media artist presently based in Toronto, Canada. Through his art Tom employs architectural absurdity and whimsy as way of questioning rules within our environment. Concurrently, Tom is an intern architect at the esteemed office of Moriyama & Teshima Architects in Toronto. Tom’s close relationship with the architectural practice gives him insight on its limitations and aspirations and helps form the foundation of his work. Tom is represented by LE Gallery in Toronto.

Official Website: TOMGNO

Christina Chow, Amina Lalor, Stanley Sun, and Joon Yang of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and Leila Moslemi

Message to Japan

“It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.” Please tell us yours.

Artist information

Christina Chow, Amina Lalor, Stanley Sun, and Joon Yang of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture initially met with Leila Moslemi of York University to help John McMinn and Melana Janzen produce the aluminum backpack stands. They were invited to create a work for the Field Trip project and responded with an interactive piece that asks visitors to contribute to a scrolling artwork. Evoking children’s toys, knobs advance the continuous roll of paper as children and adults share their stories. A canvas roll in the box holds pencils and crayons, a compartment displays collected pencil shavings, and a roll of washi tape is provided to mend torn paper.