Vivek Shraya's Blog, page 4
June 19, 2018
Trisha X Village Voice
“Trisha, which debuted online in April 2016 and has since been exhibited in galleries across Canada, makes its U.S. debut this summer at the Ace Hotel in midtown Manhattan, curated by John Chaich. Much of the attention around Trisha thus far has focused on Shraya’s status as a transwoman, and her poignant use of visual re-creation. Chaich says he was drawn in by how the photos blur binary ideas of the past and the present. Shraya, Chaich says, is queering ideas of time by creating ‘a dialogue across time, genealogy and gender.’”
Read full article here.
June 15, 2018
Polaris Music Prize – Long List
Part-Time Woman.
June 12, 2018
June 2, 2018
June 1, 2018
May 27, 2018
Cut From Steel
“We knew ahead of time that we would make some people uncomfortable, but since we are both in the second decades of our professional careers playing it safe is boring.”
May 24, 2018
Now Magazine: “Bonjay and Too Attached on the limits of ‘diversity'”
“Calling it the Diversity Tour, in a collective of two bands that have essentially queer people, trans people, Black people, people of colour – we are a very diverse pairing, but we’re trying to articulate how we’re more than that,” Shraya says. “We’re more than those identities and check boxes.”
May 23, 2018
UToday: “What I love about being queer”
“My experience of queerness, especially growing up, was inextricably tied to other people’s responses,” Shraya says. “I often conflated wanting to kill myself and feeling depressed with queerness, but had I grown up in an environment where gender non-conformity was celebrated rather than attacked, I don’t think I would feel that way.”
Read full interview here.
May 22, 2018
New single – Too Attached Featuring Peaches
My band Too Attached remixed my 2017 track “I’m Afraid of Men” and it now features the legendary PEACHES!!!
Stream premiere via CBC Music here.
50% of sales from digital downloads of the remix via Bandcamp will be donated to the #TorontoStrongFund to help provide support to those who have been impacted by the April 2018 van attack in Toronto.
