From re-imagining John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s iconic bed-ins to producing a monthly radio show on cultural resistance, Reena Katz aka Radiodress has built a prolific artistic and pedagogical career exploring social justice issues.

As part of Hacking the Culture Speakers Series, a project of Ryerson’s Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought, Reena Katz aka Radiodress will discuss how she uses live and recorded talking, whispering, singing, yelling and listening to consider bodies as sites of knowledge, and communication as a social and political practice. Her artist talk will focus on two recent projects: love takes the worry out of being close: public assemblies in bed with queers and Midnight Dawn 20-10-10. In both works, Katz harnesses the power of audience participation in public spaces to emphasize the relationship between collective voice and the empathic act of listening. The event is FREE.