Michelle Bunton
Financial Assistant
They / She
Film and Media
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Michelle Bunton is the Financial Assistant for the Department of Film and Media at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. They are also the Project and Financial Assistant for the Vulnerable Media Lab, and an Instructor at Ayatana's Biophilium: Science School for Artists. Michelle is a and currently residing as an uninvited guest in Katarokwi-Kingston.
Their previous position was as Curatorial Assistant and Co-Curator at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, where they worked on a number of residencies and exhibitions, including and .
As an artist, Michelle prioritizes femi-queer science, SF (speculative fabulation/science fiction) and diffractive pedagogies, aiming to embody a collaborative praxis that centers queer kinship. Recent work turns to slime mold/lichen/fungi and their attendant characteristics of collective action, decentralized organization and abject recomposition of matter as models for queer worldmaking.