Cultural X is an annual showcase Trent University’s Cultural Studies Undergraduate Art Exhibition. The students students in studio courses are invited to submit their work for the prestigious the Gregory R. Frith Memorial Prize. This exhibition showcase some of the work submitted for this award. Their body of work crosses disciplines, mediums, and theoretical approaches, questioning and problematizing digitality, the body, identity, movement, nature, language, place, family, and the ontology of art in an age of contagion, war, and isolation. These artworks were created in a handful of courses encompassing our integrated arts platform: CUST1510H: Integrated Arts, CUST2114H: Ecological Art, CUST2186H: Photography, CUST3111Y: Visual Arts Studio, CUST3142H: Experimental Film, CUST3143H: Electronic Music, CUST3184H: Documentary Film, CUST3186H: Experimental Film, and CUST4136H: Computational Arts.

Participating artists included:

• Mridul Harbhajanka, Jor Se Bhagega, 2022 (Frith Prize Winner 2023)

• Jinian Raine Harwig, Restless Formality, 2023 (Honourable Mention)

• Katerina Darby, In the Future, will messages-in-a-bottle be microchips?, 2023

• Angel Gwanda, Existing, 2023

• Oliver Matthews-Hanna, The Song of a Book, 2023 (Honourable Mention)

• Hazel Dreslinski, Tundra, 2023 (Honourable Mention)