“In a way, I've always been working on the edge of both a larger dominant society engagement and a deep engagement with my communities. My focus is really digging deep into blackness.”
Andrea Fatona, 2021
Toronto-based curator and scholar Andrea Fatona has been addressing institutionalized racism on her own terms since the 1990s. Our conversations across time reveal the depth of her commitment to making visible the full spectrum of Black culture in Canada. Engaging with Black communities to build an online repository while addressing algorithmic injustice, she and her collaborators are illuminating the work of Black Canadian cultural producers on the global stage.
Sound Design: Anamnesis Audio
Special Audio: Hogan’s Alley (1994), courtesy Vivo Media Arts, Andrea Fatona and Cornelia Wyngaarden and Whitewash (2016), Nadine Valcin, courtesy the artist
Related Episodes:
The Awakening https://freshartinternational.com/2021/01/27/women-artists-curators-awakening/
New Point of View at the Venice Art Biennale https://freshartinternational.com/2015/05/21/fresh-talk-new-pov-at-the-venice-art-biennale/
Related Links:
The State of Blackness https://thestateofblackness.format.com/
Andrea Fatona/OCADU https://www2.ocadu.ca/feature/dr-andrea-fatona-being-human-together-in-the-world
Vivo Media Arts https://www.vivomediaarts.com/
Okui Enwezor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okwui_Enwezor
All the World’s Futures/56th Venice Art Biennale https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2015/biennale-arte-2015-all-worlds-futures
Cornelia Wyngaarden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Wyngaarden
