Laura Kay Keeling: Untitled Portals, Variations

CAFKA.25 Biennial @ Cambridge Centre for the Arts & online

Laura Kay Keeling
Untitled Portals, Variations

Untitled Portal 10 & Untitled Portal 11, 2025

Laura Kay Keeling
Untitled Portals, Variations

June 7 - July 26, 2025
As part of CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory

Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge ON
& online

Untitled Portals, Variations presents a series of collages, an installation piece, and a virtual space by Laura Kay Keeling as part of CAFKA.25 Field Guide to the Understory. Through a process-centered approach, the artist experimented with and merged analog and digital processes to expand on an earlier series, Untitled Portals.

These pieces include natural elements that have been photographed both digitally and on 35mm film, scanned with a flatbed and 3D scanner, digitally manipulated, and then brought into physical form. Continuing a dialogue between the natural and digital world, the work explores connections to where we find ourselves, the incredible and important ecosystems that surround us, and the joys that can come from everyday moments of being in and engaging with our surroundings through reciprocal care and respect.

How can we maintain and evolve connections to the natural world in an increasingly isolating and technology-dependent society?

Can virtual spaces be used to encourage folks to take pause and explore, and can moments of joy and excitement be replicated in these virtual environments?

Learn more about Untitled Portals, Variations, explore the virtual space on your device, or view a recorded tour with audio descriptions here.

Laura Kay Keeling (she/her/they) is a self-taught visual artist based in Hamilton, ON. Her practice is rooted in a process-centered approach that integrates analog photography, video, digital collage, installation, and public artwork. As a process-based artist with archival investigations, her artwork questions how we form connections with the natural world and how we capture and cherish memories and moments in time. She explores the reciprocity of care amongst natural narratives and how one might engage and interact with humans, plants, animals, and nature in the context of care-based relations.

Alongside her studio practice, Laura is an active arts administrator.

For more information about the artist:

www.laurakaykeeling.com

Instagram: @laurakaykeeling

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About CAFKA
CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area takes art outside of the gallery and presents it in public places to foster community connections, record our stories, and enjoy the common spaces we all share. Artworks featured in CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory can be found across Waterloo Region from June 7 - July 26, 2025.

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flashdrive Exhibition

May 1 - 17th, 2025: at InterAccess

Celebrate the opening of InterAccess’s new programming space with a survey exhibition of Toronto/Tkaronto’s current digital arts scene, curated by Miriam Arbus (Sky Fine Foods) and featuring over 60 local artists. All artworks will be available for purchase as digital files or physical screens, with proceeds split between InterAccess and artists. Digital artwork files can be collected and taken home on a limited-edition USB flash drive.

Participating Artists:

Preview the exhibition

I Want to leave this earth behind, Nuit Blanche 2024

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen * Stefana Fratila * Miriam Arbus

“I want to leave this Earth behind” is a multisensory project by Stefana Fratila and Diana Lynn VanderMeulen which centres on outer space exploration, speculative-fictive realities, and Crip futurity.

Considering landscape through the lens of new technologies, “I want to leave this Earth behind” explores the flora, fauna, sounds and textures of a science-fictive and technicolour Earth. Insects and birds are highlighted as sound emitters, while environmental characteristics like thunder, rain, and ocean waves spatialized to create an immersive sensory experience. Notably, through an artist creation residency with Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) in Montreal, the duo developed a 40 minute A/V dome show also entitled “I want to leave this Earth behind”.

For the Toronto premiere of this project at Nuit Blanche, they will be presenting an adapted version in an immersive 40,000 square foot space, featuring a 12-channel sound and multi-channel projection system specifically formatted to the 45 by 230 foot walls of the old Toronto stock exchange.

Visit

Nuit Blanche 2024

At Toronto Design Exchange

October 5

7pm - 7am

Free and everyone is welcome

Contribute

Looking Back While Looking Ahead

Elina Lex * Tru Elmore * Akshata Naik * Amanda Amour Lynx * Curtia Wright

September 2023 (ongoing)

Geary Avenue, Toronto

Premiered for Geary Art Crawl

Chronos/Synthesis

Oliver Pauk

December 2, 2022 - February 28, 2023

Presented at J Spot Gallery, Toronto

and in Art Gate VR

Seed Systems:

Speculative Ecologies in XR Art Today

Matthew D. Gantt * Mohsen Hazrati * Nadine Kolodziey * Lauren Moffat * Nicholas Delap * Alison Bennett * Peggy Schoenegge

September 21 – October 26 2023

Presented at Geothe Institute Toronto

September 9 - 20, 2022

Presented at SOMA Gallery, Berlin

Sentient Windows

Carson Teal

February 19 - April 12 2022

Presented at J Spot Gallery, Toronto

and in Art Gate VR

Jeremy Rotsztain: Walking a Turtle

November 21, 2021 - January 30, 2022

Presented at Lourdes Cafe

and in Art Gate VR

Group art exhibition Toronto Canada with Digital Artists and video art presented in a public

Moving Slowly Through

July 26 - August 30 2021

FT: Amanda Amour Lynx * Olivia McGilchrist * Sabrina Ratté * Chris Dorland * Diana Lynn VanderMeulen *Anna Eyler + Nicolas Lapointe * Claire Scherzinger