Who We Are:

The Peripheral Visions Co-Lab creates critical scholarship and art that thinks-with and across image, story, and concept at junctures where the real and the virtual intersect. We employ a decolonial research-creation (RC) methodology that takes as its starting place the border where queer settler and Indigenous realities and worldviews collide. With installation,virtual reality, augmented reality, performance, video and projection work that engages decolonial, feminist, crip, queer and Anishinaabe imaginaries, our approach is fundamentally ontological. Our goal is to contribute to imaginaries for transitions beyond colonial modernity, which requires thinking social and political forms and relations according to different presumptions about reality.

Led by Mary Bunch & Dolleen Tiisawii’ashii Manning, this lab brings together a diverse team from York University, Queen’s University, local artists, and community members.

See Team.

our work:

Creative Works

Mary Bunch and Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Ruin. Sculptural Installation with found objects (metal, junk, obsolete technology), projection and augmented reality, 2024.

Exhibited at Vector Festival, Toronto

Manning, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii and Mary Bunch, Resonance. Digital media dome projection and virtual reality created in Premiere, Unreal Engine and Touchdesigner, 2023. https://vimeo.com/846722124?share=copy

Exhibited at Onsite Gallery, ImagineNATIVE, Aga Khan Museum, Film and Media Studies Association ”

Manning, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii and Mary Bunch, with Mariel Belanger, Hodari Clarke, Lydia Johnson and Mona Stonefish. Gathering. Digital media dome projection and virtual gallery created in Premiere, Unreal Engine and Touchdesigner, 2022. https://vimeo.com/846454372?share=copy

Exhibited at Nuit Blanche, ImagineNATIVE, Film and Media Studies Association

Manning, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii and Mary Bunch with Mariel Belanger, Hodari Clarke, Lydia Johnson and Shelby Payocyoc. Emerging from the Water. Networked Virtual Reality artwork and digital gallery in Mozilla Hubs, 2022.

Exhibited in Re[new]All 2021: A Sensorium exhibition for The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).

Manning, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii and Mary Bunch. Water is Alive: The Emerging from the Water Project. 5 Minute video, 2023. https://vimeo.com/872326381? share=copy

Screened at ImagineNATIVE, Aga Khan Museum, United Nations Conference on Water, ONE Water, York U.

Ng-Chan, Taien, Mary Bunch, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning, Ian Garrett. Parkway Forest Time Machine Dome. Interactive Dome Installation. Green Screen Performance, AI generated images, multi-layered video interactive dome projection with Kinect motion detection and TouchDesigner.

Exhibited at Film and Media Studies Association, Lambton College Round Dance

Ng-Chan, Taien, Mary Bunch, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning, Ian Garrett. Parkway Forest Time Machine: Geolocated AR. Green Screen Performance, AI generated images, Geo-located Augmented Reality Tour with Digital Map.

Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters

Manning, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii and Mary Bunch. “Decolonial Re-worlding: Potential Ecologies of the Virtual.” In Fielding, Helen and Mariana Ortega. Life in Art, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Identity. Indiana University Press. In Press, Winter 2025

Bunch, Mary and Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning. “Thinking Across Worlds: Pluriversal Potentiality.” PUBLIC Journal, Issue 68: Special Issue on Making Worlds in the Pluriverse. Eds. Patricio Davila, Ganaele Langlois, Renata Leitao, 2023, 9-17.

Wong-Mersereau, Chloe, Fraser Best, Mary Bunch, Alexandra Frankel, Brad Necyk, Lia Tarachansky, Shabnam Sukhdev, Kelly Fritsch, and Suze Berkhout. “Layered Methodologies: Innovating Qualitative Research in Liver Transplantation Through Sensory Ethnography, Critical Discourse Analysis and Digital Storytelling.” Journal of Liver Transplantation. Volume 12, 2023, 100183, ISSN 2666-9676, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.liver.2023.100183

Journal Special Issues

Mary Bunch, Julia Chan and Sean Lee. Special Issue on Access Aesthetics, Public: Art|Culture|Ideas www.publicjournal.ca, October, 2022.