Author Archives: drlau

MBL: Freedom – 2022

3- channel video installation

Videographer, Editor

For the 2022 Toronto Biennial, Syrus Marcus Ware presents MBL: Freedom (2022). This work is the next chapter of the saga, wherein the three Black, Indigenous, and POC Antarcticans flee the Company’s territories and abandon their mission to colonize Antarctica, swimming in icy waters toward the only part of the continent not claimed by a country, “Mary Bird Land,” or MBL.

MBL: Freedom (2022) is commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and made possible with the generous support of the Age of Union Alliance.

LBD: An Installation – 2019

commissioned by the 10th annual That’s So Gay, signature Gladstone exhibition.

2019 That’s So Gay: Love is a Battlefield is a group show celebrating new works by LGBTTI2SQQ artists and allies curated by Syrus Marcus Ware.

LBD: An Installation

What if the rooms we stay in held onto the memories that were made there? LBD is the story of 2 women who met in this one room, 3 times over 3 decades.

created by Mishann and Tijiki

audio by Mishann Lau, shadow projections by Tijiki Morris

special thanks to Kimiko Inouye.

Ancestors, can you read us? (Dispatches From The Future) – 2019

Videographer

Ancestors, Can you Read Us? (Dispatches From The Future), Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Between September 11 and December 8 of 2019, Syrus Marcus Ware’s multi-channel video work Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future) was on view at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. The video, created with Mishann Lau, features performers Kyisha Williams, Rodney Diverlus, Raven Davis, Janine Carrington, Ravyn Wngz, Gloria Swain, and Jasmyn Fyfe. The work imagines and stages a dialogue with a future beyond the current epoch of Black social death and insecurity, marked by the ever-present capitalist forces of greed and the persistent script of police and state violence.

Hogtown Roller Derby – 2019

Director, Videographer, Editor

Shot in 2019, Hogtown Roller Derby is a not-for-profit sports club operating in Toronto with over 100 members consisting of players, officials, coaches, and volunteers. We currently have 3 teams; 2 for adults aged 18 and over, and 1 for youth aged 9-17. Our membership is 36% youths and 64% Adults. Our Adult membership primarily consists of Women and non-binary individuals of which 52% identify as part of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

The Hogtown Rollers welcome anyone with no experience needed. https://www.hogtownrollerderby.com/