Colina Maxwell – had participated in a site-specific exchange project between Hamilton and Windsor artists that examined the ‘local’ in the context of southern Ontario. Her previous bodies of work explore the manipulative visual language of suburban developments. As she infiltrates the “experience market,” Maxwell develops promotional products for lost nature and inner city decay in Hamilton. ReMix inspired Maxwell to develop a critique of the discourses of tourism. In Cuba, her images of “Anti-hero Hamilton - the post-industrial everycity,”  received a wide range of responses as viewers Cuba encountered similarities with local brown fields, and children wrote/drew greetings on her cards. Maxwell found her own response to the lack of ‘convenience items’ in Cuba overwhelming, and intends to present a toilet paper intervention at public washrooms in Hamilton in September.

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Funded in part by OAC (Visual Arts Projects, International Touring and Exhibition Assistance Grants), Canada Council (Visiting Foreign Artists and Visual Arts Travel Grants)

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