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Tejpal S. Ajji : The Oral Projects FIVE HOLES series, FADO Production, curated by Paul Couillard, Toronto, Ontario, July 23, 2006 beginning from 232 Parliament St. For this project, apartment building models made from mouth freshening strips will be placed in the mouths of willing Regent Park residents. The models melt as demolition crews raze local apartment complexes. Tejpal S. Ajji's practice investigates social welfare programmes, particularly the government housing apartments in which he currently resides. State run programmes that define and maintain groups in society are of interest, as Ajji sees their influence exerted 'invisibly'. How his family's rent is determined illustrates this invisibility. As his mother's income increases, her rent increases in proportion. There is a constant plateau that asserts the welfare state through stagnated economic development. The relationship between private housing developments and gentrification projects next to government housing properties are studied for the possible tensions between residents and developers. Malton, the suburban Ontario town where Ajji resides, has a high immigrant population of South Asian and West Indian descent. Government processes of immigrant normalization and the assimilation of Canadian social codes are used as models to study behaviour, adaptation and disruption. Toronto's international airport is located in Malton. The global flow of illness as Toronto witnesses with the SARS outbreak and the current Bird Flu scare is a recent area of investigation into /invisible structures/. Photography: Miklos Legrady <--back to Fado main page
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