dear Teresa,
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I am nearing the home stretch for the publication. Luckily, while we did submit bios to our proof-reader, she won't be able to work on them until after the end of March, so if you have any changes you want to update on your bio, now is the time!
I used the most recent bio I could find on you, knowing that it was likely out of date, but also without having heard from you, I didn't really know what else to do.
I am doing alright, although it's hard to evaluate my sense of how I am, given that I have become even more radically allergic to institutionalized art in its continued complicity with genocide.
Anyways, I hope you are doing ok as well.
warmly,
Josh
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Teresa Carlesimo was director of Forest City Gallery from 2020 to 2023. She is an interdisciplinary artist and PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen's University where her research and practice considers systems of power, class and empire as integral to the analysis of environmental crises. Her artwork explores labour, extractivism, and the urban-built environment through large-scale immersive installations and video works. She has completed residencies and fellowships internationally and her work has been exhibited at the Grounds for Sculpture, Artcite, Museum London, Eyelevel, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Rodman Hall Art Centre, and the Thames Art Gallery, among others. In 2018 she co-founded and organized the Art & Social Strata Conference + Artist Projects, which presented works and conversations addressing inequality, gentrification, and socially-engaged arts practices. Carlesimo served as Co-Chair of CARFAC Ontario.
