About

Treva Legassie is a curator, artist and writer born and based in Tkarón:to, Treaty 13 territory. She is a SSHRC funded postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University’s Sonic Research Studio and holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University. Her crossdisciplinary practice is led by a responsiveness to Land. She works within complex ecologies, including urban waterways, marshes, and public parks, composing site-specific artworks, exhibitions and soundwalks that transform the way audiences move and gather in public space. 

Legassie has curated site specific exhibitions for Nuit Blanche, soundwalks along Wonscontonach (Don River) and Port Lands and curated and designed the web-based exhibition improvement becomes a wall, and the river meanders still (2023). Legassie is co-director of the Curatorial Research-Creation Collective. Her writing has been published in RACAR, PUBLIC Journal, and The Senses & Society. She has also curated new media based exhibitions such as improvement becomes a wall, and the river meanders still (2022/2024), Femynynytees (2018), #NATURE (2016) and Influenc(Ed.) Machines.

trevamichelle@gmail.com