DeBugReBoot, Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2023
Waving at You Through the Screen is an interactive installation that explores rituals of care as transformative acts within both physical and digital realities. Inspired by everyday gestures of caregiving, such as a father cooking, a grandmother knitting, or a mother quilting, the piece invites viewers to consider these intimate, repetitive, quotidian actions as forms of quiet magic, embodying connection, memory, and love.
Nikole & Carlos McGregor, Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2023, photographer: Jonathan Gazze
The installation recreates domestic spaces filled with handmade scarves, quilts, furniture, and household items, evoking the warmth and labour embedded in these objects. Within the space, three distinct caregiving rituals are performed, where visitors may witness the rituals in person or through strategically placed screens
Nikole & Carlos McGregor, Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2023, photographer: Jose San Juan
As digital and physical worlds increasingly converge, Waving at You Through the Screen reflects on how care travels across distances, through time, through gestures, and through screens. The piece asks: In a world mediated by technology, how do we continue to care for one another? How might the rituals we inherit, perform, and transmit help us build new hybrid communities?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of Humber Galleries and the City of Toronto for their contributions to our project. Without their support, this project would not have been possible. We are grateful for their ongoing commitment to the arts and culture sector in our community.