Deirdre Logue has been prolific and steadfast in her engagement with the moving image and has subsequently produced upwards of 60 short films and videos. Her solo work in performance for the camera explores anxiety, the queer body and the limits of ability through video installation and projection. With her partner/collaborator Allyson Mitchell, Logue has presented Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House (Toronto, London, Los Angeles and Philadelphia). Mitchell and Logue also directed the F.A.G Feminist Art Gallery in Toronto and satellite space from 2010-2020 and now direct FAR Feminist Artist Residency on 64 acres of conservation protected land in Ontario Canada. Logue is Development Director at Vtape and completing her MFA in Cinema Studies at York.

Ash Barbu is an Ottawa-based artist, curator, and educator whose work examines the relationship between trans autobiography, queer theory, and curatorial studies. For more than 10 years, Barbu has researched AIDS cultural histories while expanding their interdisciplinary artistic praxis to involve diverse collaborators and audiences. They hold an M.A. in Art History from the
University of Toronto and were a recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators. Recently, they were the Guest Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Ottawa’s Department of Visual Arts and a Research Fellow at Visual AIDS, New York.