The SAVAC Archives serve as a digital repository for documentation about the organization’s programming history.
Our archival holdings have served academics, scholars and art writers from around the world interested in the history and politics of SAVAC and Desh Pardesh. As a longstanding artist-run centre with challenging, experimental programming that comprises a range of objects, conditions and issues, the SAVAC Archives encourage fresh approaches to the production of knowledge about diaspora, racialization, political activism and contemporary arts in Canada, among other topics. The digital archive will be completed and fully launched in Fall 2023 – it will include digital exhibitions for all past programming along with a comprehensive guide to our archival holdings. For now, explore programming from 2015-present. To learn more, visit our new research centre at The Commons @ 401 Richmond.
Big Stories, Little India
Big Stories, Little India Big Stories, Little India is a multidisciplinary art and audio project that is situated in Toronto’s Gerrard Street India Bazaar. Initiated by SAVAC and [murmur], this project engages aspects of...
History
History The South Asian Visual Arts Centre began to take its current shape in the late 1990s, but its roots lay in the queer activism of the 1980s. Emerging from the art world of Desh Pardesh, a multidisciplinary arts...
From Here to There
Roark Andrade, Damien Lopez A collaboration between InterAccess and SAVAC, in co-sponsorship with Desh Pardesh. Curated by Kulwinder Bajar and Mark Jones From Here to There… Brings together work which surveys the multi-layered histories...
Nasir
Nasir by Arun Karthick 2020 | India/Netherlands/Singapore | Tamil with English subtitles | 78 minutes | Toronto Premiere நாசிர் | அருன் கார்த்திக் 2020 | இந்தியா/ நெதர்லாந்து / சிங்கபூர்| தமிழ், ஆங்கில துணை உரையுடன்| 78 நிமிடம்| டொரோன்டொ...
Domestic Cinema
We are pleased to co-present “Domestic Cinema” at the Images Festival. Artistic Director Steffanie Ling writes that the ongoing discourse of Domestic Cinema springs from Gabi Dao’s film The Protagonists. Examining the relationships that...
We shape our image and thereafter our image shapes us
By Jacob Korczynski “There is something to confess: your speaker likes to leave a movie theater. Back out on the more or less empty, more or less brightly lit sidewalk (it is invariably at...
