Alexis Mitchell

ALEXIS MITCHELL BIOGRAPHY: Alexis Mitchell is an award-winning artist whose works have shown at festivals and in galleries internationally. She often works collaboratively alongside artist Sharlene Bamboat under the name Bambitchell. Mitchell is a PhD Candidate in Human Geography at the University of Toronto where she holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and was recently artist-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. STEPHANIE MARKOWITZ is a filmmaker, performer, and adult educator. She has independently produced and directed over 20 short films, music videos and theatre productions. Her performance art practice with feminist art rock band VAG HALEN has taken her to venues and stages internationally including the Venice Biennale and the Bournemouth Arts Festival in the UK. Stephanie completed her MEd degree at the University of Toronto and is currently a designer and facilitator for the Lougheed Leadership Institute at The Banff Centre. TORI FOSTER BIOGRAPHY: Tori Foster is a Toronto-based artist working in video and new media. Her work explores representations of individual and community experience. Foster has been featured on the cover of Now, Xtra, and on MTV Canada. Her feature film 533 Statements, a documentary about queer women across Canada, sold out at Toronto’s Inside Out in 2006, and also won the festival’s Best Canadian Feature. Recent and current projects include The Mother City, a new media typology of the forms and resultant human experiences of the metropolises of North America; the video short Queeropolis: Toronto 1972-2008, in which oral narratives are set against a mapping of a 36-year evolution of Toronto’s queer public spaces; and Junction, an animated short that navigates the parallel and visual thought processes of the dyslexic thinker.