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Avi Margolis
Oct 19, 20238 min read
Disrupt Tea Time
This program plan was co-written by myself and Estefany Encalada for MSL1350: Museums and Their Publics. Overview British high tea is a...
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Avi Margolis
Oct 17, 20231 min read
Here and Queer in Toronto: Project Plan
This project is a follow up to my curatorial dreaming intervention. After having theorized and curated the concept of a queer museum, I...
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Avi Margolis
Mar 28, 20231 min read
Hart House Dialogue Outreach and Engagement
I spent a year working as the Outreach and Engagement Assistant for the Hart House Dialogue Student Working Group at the University of...
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Avi Margolis
Jan 28, 20231 min read
Curating My Queerness
This exhibit design was created as my final project in Curatorial Practice at the University of Toronto. (Embedded music is omitted in...
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Avi Margolis
Nov 4, 20221 min read
Love the Stranger: A Digital Exhibition
After creating Love the Stranger my internship supervisor, Faye Blum, recommended several ways to promote its launch. The most ambitious...
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Avi Margolis
Nov 3, 20221 min read
Love the Stranger: Physical Exhibit
This exhibit was designed for JIAS (Jewish Immigrant Aid Services) as part of a summer internship with the Ontario Jewish Archives. It...
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Avi Margolis
Jul 16, 202211 min read
Taking Flight: An Interactive Digital Experience
This presentation was created for The Digital Museum at University of Toronto and presented to staff from the Ontario Science Centre. As...
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Avi Margolis
May 9, 20221 min read
Here and Queer in Toronto: Curatorial Dreaming Intervention
Abstract: This paper imagines a museum of Toronto’s queer history, focused on local artists, social movements, and ...
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Avi Margolis
Mar 21, 20221 min read
Limits & Demonstrations: A Virtual Art Gallery Experience
This PowerPoint was originally created for MSL 2335 at University of Toronto. It explores a fictional art gallery from the video game...
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Avi Margolis
Jan 26, 20224 min read
Further Thoughts On Disco Elysium
This post contains spoilers for Disco Elysium. Disco Elysium is a game which has haunted me since I first played it. It is a game which...
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Avi Margolis
Dec 20, 20214 min read
A Monstrous Museum
Earlier this year I started playing A Monster’s Expedition, a puzzle game wherein you play as a monster exploring a museum of humans and...
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Avi Margolis
Dec 13, 20213 min read
Scared Straight
Nothing will make you believe the idea that psych wards are made to punish deviation from the norm quite like spending a few days in one....
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Avi Margolis
Nov 30, 20214 min read
Lost in Transit
It was important to me to return my least favorite roommates pants. Really, things start much earlier. There was a wallet I got as a...
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Avi Margolis
Nov 16, 20213 min read
Some Thoughts Upon Replaying Disco Elysium
This post contains spoilers for Disco Elysium. Last year, a lifetime ago, I played through Disco Elysium with my then partner. We built a...
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Avi Margolis
Apr 2, 20214 min read
Pesach 2021
As we reach the end of another pandemic Pesach, spent in distance and quarantine, I reflect on my year of Jewish discovery. “Shamor...
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Avi Margolis
Oct 20, 20201 min read
Shooting Star
I wish upon a star Only to find That in the time I took Divining my deepest desire It had already fallen
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Avi Margolis
Sep 21, 20201 min read
Original Sin
To put poison, A snake in perfection’s garden, Was God not the first sinner After all?
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Avi Margolis
Jun 23, 20201 min read
Breakfast Time
Morning illuminates you like a dream Stuck with the sleep in my eyes You are sweeter than my coffee Into which I add 2 spoons of sugar...
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Avi Margolis
May 24, 20201 min read
Home
“Home, my love, is a place You can wander around without needing a map” She says, “That could be anywhere after a few years” “Maybe...
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Avi Margolis
Dec 13, 201920 min read
Practice and Discourse: An examination of Jewish niddah laws
Note: This paper was initially published as my anthropology capstone project at Toronto Metropolitan University. Section 1: Introduction...
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