HELD is a multi-sensory exhibition by Anna Camilleri and Wy Joung Kou, composed of multiple works within a shared ecosystem including: ceramic and glass mosaic, installation, pebble mosaic sculpture, video, audio, and interaction. Reimagining the gallery as a co-created and invitational space, HELD asks: What futures await our queer, disabled bodies? What sustainable futures can we co-create together?
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Presented by Tangled Arts + Disability in partnership with ReDefine Arts. Supported by the Ontario Arts Council & Toronto Arts Council.
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On at Tangled Art + Disability (401 Richmond St) from November 17, 2023 - January 26, 2024.
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Wy Joung (Wy-J) Kou is an interdisciplinary artist and arts worker based in Treaty 13 Territory, Toronto. Their body of work spans many disciplines including mosaic, public art, performance, composition, video and installation. Grounded in a disability justice framework centering relationship and interdependence, their artistic practice is rooted in intentions to foster cultures of care, access, mentorship and community growth.
Wy-J has been performing with RAW Taiko, a Toronto-based taiko drumming ensemble (est. in 1998 as Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers), since 2017. They have been a core staff of RAW since 2023 and prior to that, had the privilege of working for nearly a decade in many capacities with ReDefine Arts, in the realms of community-engaged art, permanent public art, large scale mosaic production, digital storytelling, and more, in Toronto and rural Ontario.
Wy-J has exhibited, produced commissioned work, and gained recognition as an independent mosaic artist within the disability arts sector in Toronto. At this time the main focus of their practice currently lies in taiko as a composer, performer, educator, and cultural worker, striving to mobilize for social change and support liberatory movements through their work at the drum.