Multidisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural producer based in Toronto.
The Ghost Apartment
The Ghost Apartment is a multimedia art installation by Nikola Steer (AKA Coco Framboise) developed with the generous support of Canada Council For The Arts. This work (in process) resurrects the artist's childhood living room which was in Thorncliffe Park, a neighbourhood in former East York, Toronto.
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Afro-Dite: HairLoom
This one-time installation took place January 18th, 2019 inside the exhibition Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires on Level 5 of the Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Conceived as a contemplation of black beauty, the event was inspired by the artist's childhood experience of wearing large braids to school and being different from her mostly Caucasian schoolmates. In this iteration of the piece, artist Nikola Steer (AKA Coco Framboise) invited her mother and others to re-braid her hair, weaving in textures and textiles of autobiographical, cultural and ethnic significance. This culminated in a dance of defiance, set to a soundscape of the stories collected in moving tribute to her lineage and community. A conversation with the artist and with AGO Assistant Curator Live Projects & Performance, Bojana Stancic, follows the performance.
Read about the artist and the installation in an interview with CBC Arts HERE.
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