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  Artist Diane Borsato

  

  Artist Diane Borsato

  Diane Borsato is an award-winning artist, educator, amateur mycologist, and beekeeper who works closely with other artists and amateur naturalists. Among many other gestures she has stolen flowers (Bouquet, 2006), foraged for fungi in New York City (Chinatown Foray, 2010), practiced stillness with beekeepers (Your Temper, My Weather, 2013/2022), identified clouds in a museum collection (Cloud Party, 2017), mapped a neighborhood by smells (Olfactory Map, 2017) and most recently, planted an orchard of rare and unusual apple varietals as public art (ORCHARD, 2019 – ongoing). She has performed and exhibited in Canada and internationally at venues including the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, the AGYU, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Art Centre Fogo Island Arts, the Creative Time Summit, and at the Toronto Biennial of Art. www.dianeborsato.net 

  Diane Borsato est une artiste primée, une éducatrice, une mycologue amatrice et une apicultrice qui collabore régulièrement avec d’autres artistes et naturalistes amateurs. Au fil de ses nombreux gestes artistiques, elle a volé des fleurs (Bouquet, 2006), cherché des champignons dans New York (Chinatown Foray, 2010), pratiqué l’immobilité avec des apicultrices et apiculteurs (Your Temper, My Weather, 2013/2022), identifié des nuages dans une collection de musée (Cloud Party, 2017), établi la carte olfactive d’un quartier (Olfactory Map, 2017) et, plus récemment, planté un verger de variétés inhabituelles et rares de pommiers, en guise d’art public (ORCHARD, 2019 – maintenant). Elle s’est produite et a exposé ses œuvres dans de nombreux endroits au Canada et l’étranger, notamment le Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario, The Power Plant, la Galerie d’art de l’Université York, le Musée d’art de l’Université de Toronto, la Galerie Walter Phillips du Centre des arts de Banff, la Galerie d’art de Vancouver, le Centre national Fogo Island Arts, le Creative Time Summit et le Toronto Biennial of Art. www.dianeborsato.net 

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  Violin Leslie Ting

  

  Violin Leslie Ting

  Leslie Ting has been creating immersive, music-driven performances since 2014. Her definitive work, Speculation, combined her specialized background as a classical musician and former practicing optometrist. In 2021, Leslie was nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for Emerging Theatre Director. She is an artistic research fellow at the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence and an Associate Artist with Toronto-based performance company, Volcano.

  Her latest project, What Brings You In, is currently in development as an online, interactive binaural experience, and has been supported by Theatre Passe Muraille’s Buzz Development program, WhyNot’s RISER Project, the Summerworks Lab Program and the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now Initiative.

  This past year, Leslie performed in the inaugural season of improvisation web-series, Understory, contributed to experimental publication Caddisfly Project (NYC) and was a commissioned artist for Race Cards (in Two Acts), a co-production by Prime Mover Theatre Company and Selina Thompson LTD (UK). 

  Creative accessibility is a throughline of Leslie’s artistic practice. Her interdisciplinary approach has included interviews with members of the low vision and blind community, prototype testing, regular discussions with consultants, accessibility experts, and internal reflection with her collaborators on our relationship with vision and listening.  

  She asks that her collaborators share in this process to consider multiple perspectives and accessibility in order to foster empathy, spark advocacy and create social change.

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