Artist Talk by Futurefarmers

Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers will speak about the collective's interdisciplinary practice, including the work Soil Procession: A Movement of Soil from the Country to the City currently on exhibition at the Doris McCarthy Gallery as part of Art Farm.

Amy Franceschini is an artist, designer, and faculty in the Master of Eco-Social Design at the Free University in Bolzano, Italy. She received her BFA in Photography from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Stanford University. In 1995, Amy founded Futurefarmers as a collaborative platform to consider the social, political and environmental organization of space. Deconstructing systems such as food, public transportation, and education to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics, Futurefarmers finds alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems. They have created temporary schools, books, bus tours, and large-scale exhibitions internationally.

This talk will be hosted on Zoom and is free and open to the public, all are welcome. Registration required. If you have accommodation needs, please let us know through the registration form or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca. After registering, attendees will be provided with a Zoom link to join the talk virtually.

U of T Scarborough students attending for course credit should register through CLNx rather than Eventbrite.

This talk is part of the annual Visiting Artist Lecture Series, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Studio Art program, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. This year's series is titled Collaboration and Contamination: Art-Making in the Anthropocene, and invites artists to speak about the ways in which their practices engage with the topic of climate justice, and the unlikely collaborators needed in order to shift our mindsets, practices, and conversations about how we live our lives.