“Luminous Bodies” Residency 2018

Luminous Bodies is a two-week residency to create artworks that shed new light on the human body. Its objective is to challenge “normativity” and Otherness. Its goal is to reinvent and re-present the body in most inclusive and diverse ways.

Resident artist talks, gallery tours, visual and textual references, guest artist talks, and regular critiques help uncover how our bodies are culturally and aesthetically constructed, displayed and controlled.

Residents work individually or collaboratively to create artworks that reinvent the body through media of their choice. There will be a closing exhibition of artworks created during the residency.

Artscape Gibraltar Point is an artist retreat nestled against the magnificent natural backdrop of Toronto Island. It offers a distraction-free environment to focus on art creation, and a rich potential for the creation of corporeal artworks amongst its blue-flag beaches and natural surroundings.

Teresa Ascencao is a multimedia artist whose work toys with social forces that shape gender, seduction, consumption, and class. She holds an MFA specializing in Media Art and Sex-Positive Feminism from OCAD University.

Arrivals are on July 3 from 1pm to 3pm, and departures on July 16 before 11am. For more information visit LuminousBodies.com or contact Teresa Ascencao at [email protected].