Tessa Perkins Deneault at CATR2026: 50th Anniversary Conference Inheritances in Transition: Rehearsing Change for Theatre and Performance Futures
We are pleased to announce that Tessa Perkins Deneault will participate in CATR 2026: 50th Anniversary Conference, titled Inheritances in Transition: Rehearsing Change for Theatre and Performance Futures.The conference will unfold in two parts, bringing together scholars, artists, and writers to reflect on legacies, critical practices, and future possibilities in performance. Act I: In Person…
Laboratorio de Lo Possible: Investigación -Creación y Artivismos /Laboratory of the Possible, Research-Creation and Artivism
As part of my visit at ITESO I will be in conversation with Dr. Julian Woodside, chair of the MA degree in Communication and Culture discussing research-creation, and the connections between art, memory, archives, bodies and affects in Laboratory of the Possible: Research‑Creation and Artivisms in Dialogue. Join us on Wednesday, May 13, from 7:00…
Book presentation: Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts
If you are in Calgary for CALACS, I will be presenting Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts co-edited with Analays Álvarez Hernández, and Zaira Zarza. Saturday May 9, Block 8 (10:30-12:15 pm) Room C, University of Calgary. Diffracting the North is the first book to…
Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter at International Colloquim “Cuerpos que gozan, cuerpos que piensan”! (UNAM) May 5-7, 2026
Excited to announce: Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter will participate at the International Colloquim “Cuerpos que gozan, cuerpos que piensan”! at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) organized by placerfem. She will be presenting her work through the lens of what she labels Obscene Omissions in reproductive science, namely the tech-erasure of female pleasure, and discuss how…
Visiting Professor at ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
I am really excited to share that I will be a visiting professor at ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara from April to June, 2026 as part the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Program from Global Canada Affairs Canada and SFU International. During my stay, I will be meeting with professors and students in the Art and…
Excited to participate in Roots & Branches: Beyond the Pacific curated by Elizabeth Ross at the Chongqing Contemporary Art Musuem
Really excited to participate in this exhibition of video art from Latin American producers curated by Elizabeth Ross as part of the program China-Latin America Video Exchange at Chongqing Contemporary Art Museum. The exhibition will be on view from April 2026 to May 2026. The selected artists and works include 1011 Collective, Almost Wednesday; Amanda…
New Media Artist Round table: Art in Migrations FLEFF’s April 10, 2026
Excited to share that I will participate in the New Media Artist Roundtable: Art in Migrations, along with Imran Channa, and Sarah Shamash and curators Dale Hudson and Claudia Costa Pederson in conversation with Heidi Rae Cooley (FREE EVENT) To register for this event, visit: https://www.ithaca.edu/finger-lakes-environmental-film-festival-fleff/new-media-artist-roundtable-art-migrations Diasporic Worldings (2025) and Body as Border: Traces and Flow of…
Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter awarded a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant: Bioart in Canada
Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter is the recipient of a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant to examine bioart in Canada as a complex, evolving field situated at the intersection of contemporary art, biological sciences, and critical theory. Dr. Hunter will be responsible for mapping bioart practitioners, laboratories, residency programs, and institutional networks across Canada, while analyzing how bioart…
Tessa Perkins Deneault responds to Chimerik at VIDFs Living Room Initiative
A Living Room Response to Chimerik Here is Tessa Perkins Deaneault’s creative response to Chimerik, presented at the Vancouver International Dance Festival as part of the Living Room series. Living Room invites artists and audience members to engage with performances through creative reflection rather than formal review, generating ongoing conversation around the work. Chimerik is…
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…