‘Pax Americana’ in Toronto? Speculative art can help us navigate threats

‘Pax Americana’ in Toronto? Speculative art can help us navigate threats

Artist Dara Vandor's futuristic, commemorative historical plaques on Toronto streets project a U.S.-annexed Canada. (Dara Vandor) As part of her ongoing public art series, Pax Americana, Toronto visual artist Dara Vandor has been posting aluminum signs in public spaces. These are plaques that reimagine, as the artist writes, the city as “a site of future conflict and occupation” by the United States. The signage, in the style of commemorative hi…