The Mashed Economies (ME) collective was formed in 2012 to further the previous spontaneous collaborations between Rebecca Garrett, Riaz Mehmood and Kim Jackson. Mashed Economies signals an effort on the part of the three artists to dig deep into issues of social relations and value within capitalism. Our work asks: what can art practices offer in moving our way through a social fabric that has been torn by colonial and capitalist histories. The 3 members of the ME Collective have, individually and together, worked extensively with artists, collectives and communities on dialogical and collaborative projects of exchange in social/political sites — in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Northwest Territories, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Kenya and the United States of America.  This includes work with youth, indigenous communities and women, as well as those who have experienced and/or resisted homelessness, imprisonment, colonialization, displacement and disenfranchisement. Riaz Mehmood’s projects have focused on the collaborative and participatory nature of art making. Rebecca Garrett and Kim Jackson developed a  series of performative workshops involving video, food and performance.
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