Artistic State of Emergence
Ellipses Thinking podcast, Shannon Litzenberger, May 17, 2024
On artists, precarity, and why we need artistic ways of knowing in unstable times.
Link: https://ellipsesthinking.libsyn.com/40-shannon-litzenberger-artistic-state-of-emergence

State of Emergence: Why We Need Artists Right Now
The Philanthropist Journal, Litzenberger & Posture, May 4, 2022
Companion text to the podcast, arguing for artists as essential infrastructure in crisis.
Link: https://thephilanthropist.ca/2022/05/state-of-emergence-why-we-need-artists-right-now/

The 2024 Killam Prize honours Canada’s university researchers (Part 1)
CBC / Apple Podcasts, Nahlah Ayed, Nov 29, 2024
A look at research and recognition in Canada, useful for thinking about institutions and value.
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-2024-killam-prize-honours-canadas-university/id151485663?i=1000678670951

The arts funding crisis is an opportunity to prioritize artists
Sarah M. Berry, The Grind Magazine, June 21, 2024
On redirecting arts funding toward artists’ actual needs rather than institutional survival.
Link: https://www.thegrindmag.ca/the-arts-funding-crisis-is-an-opportunity-to-prioritize-artists/

AI Commons: Nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture
Berhan, OneProject.org, July 14, 2025
Explores commons based, community controlled approaches to AI and technology.
Link: https://oneproject.org/ai-commons/

Future world-building depends on artists and collaborative networks
K. Sinclair, National Endowment for the Arts, 2021
On artists and networks as key actors in imagining and building more just futures.
Link: https://www.arts.gov/impact/media-arts/arts-technology-scan/essays/future-world-building-depends-artists-and-collaborative-networks

A brief history of zines
Vancouver Art Gallery, June 2, 2025
Context for zine making, DIY publishing, and radical print cultures.
Link: https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/a-brief-history-of-zines/

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists who make zines
Robin Ford, Vancouver Art Gallery, Sept 13, 2024
Exhibition text on zine artists, reproduction, and counter-institutional publishing.
Link: https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/copy-machine-manifestos/

Open access and community-based pedagogy through the Toronto Queer Film Festival
K. Chisholm, in Reading the Room, 2024
On community driven film programming, pedagogy, and access.
Link: https://press.library.concordia.ca/read/reading-the-room/section/3f15415c-58ca-4206-9561-1454d8e29c4d

Emergent Strategy (pp. 6–36)
a. m. brown, 2017
Frameworks for collective change, adaptation, and relational organizing that can shape how this archive functions.
PDF (UofT Quercus)

Staying with the Trouble (pp. 1–8)
Donna Haraway, Duke University Press, 2020
On living and thinking with complexity instead of seeking simple fixes.
PDF: http://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/chapter-pdf/583813/9780822373780-001.pdf

Imagination: A Manifesto (pp. 23–199)
Ruha Benjamin, 2024
A deep dive into imagination as a tool for justice, resistance, and worldmaking.
PDF (UofT Quercus)

Ways of Worldmaking
Nelson Goodman, 1978
Classic text on how worlds are constructed through symbols, stories, and practices.
PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/c/c5/Goodman_Nelson_Ways_of_Worldmaking_Harvester.pdf

Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (pp. 14–32)
José Esteban Muñoz, NYU Press, 2009
Queer futurity, not-yet worlds, and the importance of minoritarian archives and performance.

Archive/Counter-Archive
SSHRC, ongoing research project
A national Canadian project on activating marginalized audiovisual archives.
Site: https://counterarchive.ca/

PUBLIC 71: Against Oblivion — Community archives, building alliances
SSHRC / Archive/Counter-Archive, Aug 2025
Issue on community archives, alliances, and resisting erasure.
Info: https://counterarchive.ca/public-71-against-oblivion-community-archives-building-alliances

Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating principles of respect in archival policy development
Sicondolfo et al., Archivaria 93, 2022
Article outlining respect based principles for building archival policy.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21409/yh3a-1k10

Northside Hip Hop Archive
Community archive
A living digital archive of Canadian hip hop culture and history.
https://www.nshharchive.ca/

Mercer Union
Artist-run centre, Toronto
An artist-run space whose programs and commissions inform our thinking about community, care, and exhibition.
https://www.mercerunion.org/

The Order of Canada (I’ll Be Your Mirror)
Leah Sandals / Mercer Union program, Sept 2025
Exhibition on reflection, national narratives, and who is seen as “the nation.”
https://www.mercerunion.org/programs/the-order-of-canada

Toronto Queer Film Festival – 2025 Program
Community-run film festival
Programming rooted in queer, radical, and DIY film practices.
https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/2025-program/

Theo Jean Cuthand – Videos and Games
T. Cuthand, artist site, Nov 18, 2025
Experimental videos and games engaging with Indigeneity, queerness, and mental health.
https://www.tjcuthand.com/videos/

Jonathan Petrychyn – Guest lecture
University of Regina
Lecture details and profile of a scholar working on queer media and community archives.
https://www.uregina.ca/media-art-performance/directory/petrychyn-jonathan.html

Mary Elizabeth Luka
UTSC Department of Arts, Culture and Media
Researcher in media, arts, cultural policy, and community-engaged work.
https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/mary-elizabeth-luka

VPAC22 Course Lectures
C. Sicondolfo, UofT Quercus
Course materials on archives, community media, and respect based practices.
https://q.utoronto.ca/courses/406834

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Funding body behind Archive/Counter-Archive and related projects.

Vancouver Art Gallery
Exhibitions and texts on zines, artist-run publishing, and counter-publics.