Aysia Tse

SAVAC is pleased to host Aysia Tse for an artist residency in support of her ongoing material and theoretical research. Over the coming months, Aysia is further developing a fabric installation previously shown in the group show An irritant sweet as a grain of sand curated by Shalaka Jadhav in January 2024 at Xpace Cultural Centre. Featuring text she wrote for a collaborative student zine centered around disability justice and active allyship, the next iteration of this work will investigate the bodymind as a site of shifting embodiment, negotiated needs and capacities. Aysia will draw from the generational knowledge of disability justice activists, advocates and artists who inform her understanding of disability, crip time, access intimacies, and creative access to create a work that calls on us to resist and dissolve colonial logics and standards.

Aysia Tse (b. Singapore 2001) is an interdisciplinary artist, arts worker and community organizer whose practice includes movement-based work, performance and multimedia installations that engage themes relating to madness, queerness, and her mixed diasporic identity. She is currently developing projects that dive into the intersections of water, movement, identity, and bodily politics.

Aysia has worked with various arts organizations including Workman Arts, MABELLEarts, the Creative Research and Inclusive Practices (CRIP) Lab, Arts Etobicoke, STEPS Public Art and Femme Art Review. She has exhibited work at Trinity Square Video, Xpace Cultural Centre, Ignite Gallery, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Long Winter TO and the Rendezvous with Madness Festival. Aysia is grateful to have participated in residencies with the Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT), the Public Visualization Lab in collaboration with Duplex Artists Society and the Shoes Off Collective.