Transart institute for creative Research
REPRESENTATIVE students
Bindi Vora. Courtesy of Zöe Maxwell
Here is a small representative selection of our current students and alums to give you an idea of the range and diversity of interests of our students and how many entwine creativity, technology and novel methodologies to achieve their goals:
Toronto-based psychotherapist Phei Phei Oon is designing games for clients with select mutism.
New York artist Gina Dominique challenges existing gender and colour narratives through painting and by examining colour theories' influence on artists, focusing on how feminist aesthetics, phenomenology, intersectional theories, and historical or contemporary painting practices impact creative expression.
Erin Wilkerson's work expands the definition of invasive species beyond the botanical and zoological, facilitating an investigation into anti-colonial methodologies through film in Shanghai.
Seoul-based He Jin Jang, a choreographer, researcher, dramaturg, curator and essayist, is currently occupied in dance-making with questions like: What if how the body deals with impact is the key to embodying resilience? And what are choreographic practices to invite trans-generational resilience?
UK-based Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie is a development practitioner taking systemic, holistic approaches to understanding and addressing development challenges to explore the spaces and processes most conducive to enabling groups (communities, companies, nations) to find workable solutions.
MFA alum Virgil Wong is a New York artist and digital technologist transforming human health.
Andrew Frieband's creative practice consists of field-building around artists-as-researchers. His New York-based 'Artists' Literacies Institute', offers professional development courses for artists in systems thinking.
Current MFA Miki Wolf is a Southern Tutchone, Tlingit, and Cree multi-disciplinary performer from the Champagne and Aishihik Nation in the Yukon pursuing research in new praxis methodologies for Indigenous performers to decolonize accepted theatre-making.
And, incoming Rajeev Goyal, located in Nepal and New York, at a cross-road completing the five-year project 'KTK-Belt', creating biodiversity corridors for conservation, education and livelihood from Koshi Tappu to Kanchenjunga in Eastern Nepal, will write an autofiction novel and tele-series about his experiences.