Announcing 2026 Placeholder Residencies 

Congratulations Make or Break (Connie Anthes and Bec Gallo), Ellen Ferrier and Mara Schwerdtfeger!

Make or Break will explore the pragmatic and poetic possibilities of un-making electronic waste, collectively developing new rituals and recipes for these materials and our relationship to digital devices.

Ellen Ferrier will facilitate community exploration of regenerative biomaterials from the detritus of the Waterloo building site and its immediate surrounds by inviting people to forage, sort, grind, soak, cook and combine materials.

Mara Schwerdtfeger will investigate noise in relation to how we construct environments. A modular sound system collectively built from recycled materials will invite a series of listening events loss of culture and knowledge as it is continuously buried under construction and machinery.







Images left to right: Make or Break, photographer Dean Tirkot.  Ellen Ferrier. Mara Schwerdtfeger photographer Zoe Baumgartner.