A Walk-in-Progress | Anita Castelino & Sherry Ostapovitch

Anita Castelino is a queer sound artist and PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at York University. Her research explores the changing social, spatial, and ecological relations of digital technology infrastructure. Anita incorporates sound into her political commitments and her previous sound works have been exhibited at New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and across Europe and the UK.

Sherry Ostapovitch is a sound artist and educator based in Toronto whose work incorporates field recordings and multi-channel sound installations. Previous work includes the ambisonic 360-degree sound installation, In a Queer Time and Space, which assembles memories, places, and acoustic abstractions while grappling with the impermanence and fluidity of queer geographies. Sherry is currently undertaking a PhD in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Research commitments include: listening, sonic pedagogy, sonic geographies, popular education, and practices of decolonization.

On 5 October 2019 WalkingLab and the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) assembled a temporary community of activists, artists, scholars and other peripatetic counter-speculators in Toronto’s financial district to share knowledge, ideas and forms of resistance through a series of presentations at various locations. A Walk-in-Progress is a sonic response to this walking event. This creative composition is composed of recordings of the speakers, interventions, and sounds of Toronto’s financial district made during the walk. Modular synthesis threads together the recordings, documenting resistance to Canada’s role in global extractive industries and consequences of finance capitalism.

Biography

Anita Castelino is a queer sound artist and PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at York University. Her research explores the changing social, spatial, and ecological relations of digital technology infrastructure. Anita incorporates sound into her political commitments and her previous sound works have been exhibited at New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and across Europe and the UK.

Sherry Ostapovitch is a sound artist and educator based in Toronto whose work incorporates field recordings and multi-channel sound installations. Previous work includes the ambisonic 360-degree sound installation, In a Queer Time and Space, which assembles memories, places, and acoustic abstractions while grappling with the impermanence and fluidity of queer geographies. Sherry is currently undertaking a PhD in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Research commitments include: listening, sonic pedagogy, sonic geographies, popular education, and practices of decolonization.

Artist Statement

On 5 October 2019 WalkingLab and the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) assembled a temporary community of activists, artists, scholars and other peripatetic counter-speculators in Toronto’s financial district to share knowledge, ideas and forms of resistance through a series of presentations at various locations. A Walk-in-Progress is a sonic response to this walking event. This creative composition is composed of recordings of the speakers, interventions, and sounds of Toronto’s financial district made during the walk. Modular synthesis threads together the recordings, documenting resistance to Canada’s role in global extractive industries and consequences of finance capitalism.