For this edition of Conversalon, we presented the works of 8 artists from Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay: Luján Agusti, Melania Liendo, Santiago Hafford, Nahuel AlfonsoSofía Manrique, Cecilia Estalles, Jasmine Bakalarz, Christian Rodriguez. All of the artists are affiliated in one way or another, with the exhibition at Gallery 44 for the NS Photo Exchange [...]
CONVERSALON we presented electronic media artist Nell Tenhaaf from Toronto and Paul Bush, English filmmaker most well-known for experimental stop frame animation. The event was spiced up by a delicious vegetarian dinner cooked by Jorge and Alexandra. (The main dish: fruit curry!!! ) Nell Tenhaaf (born in 1951 in Oshawa, Ontario) is a Canadian, Toronto-based [...]
soJin Chun is a Toronto-based artist working in photography, video and installation. Chun’s experience living in the Korean diaspora in Bolivia and Canada influences her work, which looks at the idiosyncratic moments of everyday life in its inconclusive and contradictory nature. By creating works that are whimsical, soJin pokes fun of her own personal [...]
DisseminActions password: kikolela converSalon is proud to present DisseminActions, an ongoing series of screening with our second one called: ECVP Vol.07 - The Artist Agitator The project is a unique video collaboration between artists from all over the world, inspired by the surreal method of creation of the "exquisite [...]
DisseminActions converSalon is proud to initiate DisseminActions, an ongoing series of screening with our first one called: Concepts are Events A collection of works of Toronto local video artists, and friends from Argentina, Venezuela, and Russia: film, video and sound. The works are ruptures of traditional narrative and whose destination [...]
Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and independent curator, living between Brussels and São Paulo. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Nicolela has also completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. The artist was nominated for the international award EXTRACT – Young [...]
Conversation with Park Chankook and ConverSalon CineCycle (129 Spadina Ave.) May 8th, 2018. 7pm Conversation with Miguel Hilari (1985), Bolivian filmmaker of Aymara and German descent. His practice is concerned with memory, migration and urbanization processes. His films include After a fire (25’, 2023), Cerro Saturno (13’, 2022), Compañía (60’, [...]
June 10 - July 9 Alena Koroleva (b. 1985) Graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television as a filmmaker (MA). Main focus of her visual art practice is in documentary portraits. She has made few short films, which have been shown at various international and Russian [...]
June, 2019. The ConverSalon collective is pleased to announce a curatorial residency with Alena Koroleva from June 10, 2019 to July 9, 2019. Alena will be screening her program “Evidence of Evidence” - highlighting selections from the international competition programs of Kinodot and Message to Man International Film Festivals in Saint Petersburg. X [...]
Lina Rodrigues. To know more about her residency please go this link: ConverSalón 21 2018 Lina lives and works in Cali, Colombia. She did postgraduate studies in Arts Medial agreement with National University of Córdoba, Argentina and University of Caldas, Colombia. Currently, she is working on a degree for the Master in Design and Creation [...]
