WHEREELSEELSEWHERE Audio Walk

Listen while walking // How is a hydro corridor like a mall? 

SHATTERED MOON ALLIANCE and friends invite you to take an audio detour through the laneways, in-between zones and other wormholes of public space...

Join us for a group walk and experience the online audio project, WHEREELSEELSEWHERE, while wandering the Green Line – a proposed new linear park system in an active hydro-corridor in Toronto's west end.  We will meet at Geary Avenue Parkette (15 Geary Avenue, at Ossington) and wander together at a leisurely pace for approximately 1.5 hours, ending at Earlscourt Park. 

Participants are encouraged to bring their own listening devices (i.e. smartphone) with access to internet and headphones. If you would like to participate and do not have access to a smartphone, please email education@interaccess.org.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

In 2018, Y+ contemporary closed their storefront gallery and studio in Scarborough, Ontario. In their final days, they returned to a space that had long been of interest: the nearby hydro corridor. Here, much like the rest of Scarborough, major shifts in the landscape were set to occur. In collaboration with curator Katie Lawson, Y+ invited SHATTERED MOON ALLIANCE (Christina Battle and Serena Lee) to develop a project that would take the hydro corridor, soon to be called The Meadoway, as a point of departure.

SHATTERED MOON ALLIANCE says:

Over the years, our conversations somehow loop back to super-malls and Star Trek: Deep Space 9, which takes place on a space station at the edge of a wormhole. Navigating the Hydro Corridor, we began thinking about the corridor-ness of the mall as a promise of community space, how it echoes the arcades as a fantasy of European cosmopolitanism and consumerism, and the ways in which they’ve been part of youth culture, familiar to us both, maybe you too!

In lieu of an object-based presence in the Hydro Corridor, we created an audio-tour to accompany you, taking a kaleidoscopic approach to ruminating on the mall-ness of wormholes, and the wormhole as mall. During the period of living in contained, isolated distances, we reached out to others – friends and family in various geographies – inviting them to send us audio notes about ‘mall-ness’ in the form of: stories, haptic or embodied sensations, memories, tastes, smells, activities, goods, and relations.

Audio Contributors:

Christina Battle
Michelle Campos Castillo
Adán De La Garza
Masimba Hwati
Ruth Jenrbekova
Serena Lee, with Aja Lee
Michael Madjus
Riaz Mehmood
Patricia Ritacca
Juli Saragosa
School of Temporalities

Y+ would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario. This project was produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.