Maya Ben David
Maya Ben David (MBD) is a Toronto-based Jewish-Iranian artist. Working in video, installation and performance, she creates worlds and characters that aid her ongoing exploration of anthropomorphism, cosplay and performative personas.
Our conversation was recorded in Hamilton within Treaty 3 territory on the ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe nations under the Dish With One Spoon wampum agreement.
This episode of Hopping the Fence contains discussions of antisemitism and the Holocaust.
Show Notes
Snake Girl's Hyperbolic Time Chamber (A Jewish tale on intergenerational trauma)
Serenading the popcorn ceiling in my apartment
Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat
Scrump Runts: A Slice of Their Secret Life
Centaur Costume at Gibralter Point
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Audio editing for Hopping the Fence by Emily Reimer. Original artwork by Alex Gregory, and original music by Jessica Price Eisner.
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