From a March 10, 2025 ArtSci Salon notice (received via email and visible here as of March 13, 2025), Note: I have reorganized this notice to put the events in date order and clarified for which event you are registering,
The ArtSci Salon (The Fields Institute) in collaboration with the NewONE program (U of T [University of Toronto]) are pleased to invite you to 3 engagements with Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist Kaethe Wenzel
Urban Pictograms Workshop
March 20, 2025, 2:30-4:00 pm [ET[
William Doo Auditorium,
45 Willcocks street [sic]
A workshop to challenge the urban rules and cultural stereotypes of street signs
This workshop is part of the programming of the NewONE: learning without borders, New College, University of Toronto. Throughout the academic year, our classes have been exploring important issues pertaining to social justice. During this workshop, we invite students and members of the community to work together to create urban pictograms (or urban stickers) that challenge inequalities and reaffirm principles of social justice. A selected number of pictograms will be displayed on the windows of the D.G Ivey New College Library and will be launched on April 3 [2025] at 4:30 pm [ET].
Register here to participate in the March 20, 2025 workshop
Public talk: Urban organisms. Re-imagining urban ecologies and collective futures
March 27 [2025], 5 pm [ET], Room 230
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
222 College StreetAfter all, the world is being produced collectively, across the borders of time and geography as well as across the boundaries of the individual.
–Kaethe WenzelJoin us in welcoming Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist Kaethe Wenzel. Wenzel has used a diverse variety of media and material such as textiles, found items, animal bones, plants, soil and other organic material, as well as small electronics to produce urban interventions and objects of speculative fiction at the intersection of art, science and technology. Wenzel challenges the notion of the artwork as an object to be observed in a gallery or museum, and the gallery as a constrained space with relatively limited interactions. Her extensive body of work extends to building facades, billboards, entire neighborhoods and the city, translating into urban interventions to explore the collective production of culture and the creation and negotiation of public space.
Public launch of Urban Pictograms
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 4 pm [ET] onwards
Windows of D.G Ivey Library,
20 Willcocks Street,
New College, University of Toronto
Enjoy!
For anyone curious about the NewONE program, you can find more here at the University of Toronto.
