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Big Pond Small Fish (BPSF) promotes radical pedagogy and conceptual art for all

The Farm and The City and The Radio is an interactive sound work about what feeds and connects us. Over the summer and fall of 2020 Big Pond Small Fish works with farmers, artists, a community radio station and an art gallery to create short sound works and three ASL accessible videos.

06/23/2025

🌟 An unforgettable Tuesday! June 17 Big Pond Small Fish celebrated a Postcard Book Launch + Momo Party at Shangrila Tibetan & Asian Cuisine 🥟📬 — and it was magical.

We wrapped up The Archive, the Future, the Commons — an inspiring collaboration where five teens answered: “What do you want to show your grandchildren, fifty years from now, about your life today?” The result? A documentation of our tumultuous moment as a photographic record for an imagined future.

Co-created with Mammalian Diving Reflex, Norbu Dawa, Tara Ludding, Tenzin Tsephel, Tenzin Tsering, and Rinchen Tso; Isabel Ahat, Bill Burns, Shannon Griffiths, Zoe Lepiano and Krys Verrall.
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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06/17/2025

Very excited to be unpacking boxes from the printer of Tara’s wonderful postcard booklet Days of Gasoline

Tara is one of five teens participating since last fall in Big Pond Small Fish’s The Archive, the Future, the Commons publishing project. We asked them, what do you want to tell grandchildren 50 years from now about your lives today?

Contact us if you’d like to see the answer in 5 stunning accordion postcard booklets

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12/04/2024

Tsephel notes all the ways we move through the city. Ancient city dwellers left their foots prints around Hanlans Point. Will street cars, bikes and automobiles still flow up and down Spadina Ave fifty years from now?
What do you imagine?

11/27/2024

What piece of technology will you remember 10 years from now? Walter Benjamin wrote that he and the telephone were both born in the same year and for that reason were twins. Rinchen doesn’t imagine technology will be the same, but our lives will be twined with it.

What technologies from today, will you want to share with the future?

Rinchen is one of 5 teens creating visual records of everyday life today for future people. This Big Pond project created with Mammalian Diving Reflex will produce 5 postcard books. Mark your calendars. Look for the launch Spring 2025!
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11/25/2024

What might you remember about your life today five years from now? Ten years? Or fifty?

I thought that for me it would be all the small ways that the natural non-human built presences appear through spaces between buildings or asphalt cracks. Tara, one of the The Archive, the Future, the Commons participants created this photo record.

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11/23/2024

A early experiment creating visual record of everyday life. Thanks to Tsering’s architecture and self portrait photos taken in and around 401 Richmond November 8.

Big Pond started our The Archive, the Future, the Commons publishing project with 5 teens at the end of October.

5 young people will each make a postcard book that will be a message to future people about their lives today.

This is a Big Pond Small Fish project in collaboration with Mammalian Diving Reflex.

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