Artist Talk February 5, 2026, 6:30 PM Integrated Motion Studio, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
In the talk I will reflect on more than two decades of living between Vancouver and Guadalajara, and on collaborative work with artists, scholars, and students in the Critical Media Art Studio she directs at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology, to examine the ideas and experiences that shaped the video Diasporic Worldings, currently screened at the Urban Screen at Emily Carr University.
Diasporic Worldings is an experimental video that explores the experiences of people in the diaspora as they form and imagine relationships with land, place, territories, and ecosystems. It uses the term “diasporic” as an adjective to describe those who belong to a diaspora due to either forced or voluntary migration and “worlding” as a creative process where “worlds” develop through ongoing engagement and interconnections with humans and more-than-humans. Inspired by Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant’s distinction between archipelagic thinking as fragmentary and intuitive and continental thinking as all-encompassing and systematic, and Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza’s use of frottage drawing as a mnemonic technique to recover an embodied connection to place, the video features actions performed on camera and images involving different approaches to map-making.
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda is an interdisciplinary artist and a cultural historian. Her work explores the female body as a site and an archive of cultural, gendered, and techno-scientific expressions through academic publications and multimedia installations. She leads the critical media art studio at the School of Interactive Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University, where she is an Associate Professor.
https://libby.ecuad.ca/programme/diasporic-worldings/
Image: Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, Diasporic Worldings, 2025. Photo credit: Michael Love.