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sono [soro]ridades @ Encuentro de redes sono-sororas / Tecnofeminisms from the South
Amanda Gutiérrez, Freya Zinovieff, Laura Balboa, and Gabriela Aceves presented their ongoing collaborations and the development of sono(soro)rities, as a theoretical and methodological framework to explore the affective and political dimensions of sound as part of the panel; “With one foot in Academia”. The panel included presentations from various Latin American -based feminist collectives working…
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Lois Klassen @ INSPIRE Seminar Series: Research and Creation in Sites of Ethical Demand – Models of Conduct and Practice
If you missed Lois Klassen’s talk on Research and Creation in Sited of Ethical Demand as part of the INSPIRE series you can watch the recording here. Lois addresses important questions that situate the category and production of “Research-Creation” projects within the Canadian context including decolonizing efforts in research and academia in response to the…
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Tertulia: Artist Book Publishing by American, Canadian, and Mexican Artists- March 31 at 6 pm
Lois Klassen from Light Factory Publications, Vancouver and Post-Doctoral Fellow at cMAS, and VLACC (Vancouver Latin American Cultural Center) are thrilled to invite you to this presentation that brings together American, Canadian, and Mexican creators who have recently produced artist books with Vancouver-based Light Factory Publications (LFP). Artists have been exchanging and collaboratively producing small…
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Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection @ Urban Screen from 6 pm to midnight until May 1st
The most recent collaboration by prOphecy Sun, Freya Zinovieff, Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, and Steve DiPaola is on view at the Urban Screen at Chuck Bailey Stadium every weeknight from 6 pm to midnight and until May 1st. Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection is a 32 minute immersive, large-scale generative video projection created…
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Dialogues: Latin American Art(ists) from/in Canada: Expanding Narratives, Territories, and Perspectives
Really honored to be part of this edited dossier by Analays Álvarez and Alena Robin on ” Latin American Art(ists) from/in Canada: Expanded Narratives, Territories and Perspectives.” My article discusses my encounters with the category “Latin American Art” in Vancouver and Toronto since 1999 and the work of Sarah Shamash Guadalupe Martinez, Carmen Rodriguez Nelly…
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Body as Border preview night and Boundless, a short program of videos curated by prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff for the Surrey Urban Screen, Feb 10 @ 6pm
We are thrilled to invite you to the preview screening of our new site-specific commission, Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection,at the UrbanScreen at Chuck Bailey Recreation Center and to introduce Boundless, a program of short videos curated by prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff. The preview screening will take place on Thursday, February…
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Amplified Listening to Race and Gender in Fiamma Montezemolo’s “Echo” and Stephanie Dinkins’s “N’TOO”
Excited to share a new article co-written with Lois Klassen on how the fabulous work of Stephanie Dinkins and Fiamma Montezemolo makes us reflect on what is heard when we hear women speaking inside artworks. It is part of the new issue of Media-N Journal entitled “No Template: Art and the Technologies of Race” guest-edited…
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Fabricación, Aserradero and Fundición: Reactivating the compositions of Carmen Barradas (1888-1963) @ the Gender and Musicianship conference at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki
Excited to share this concert-lecture of Carmen Barradas’ compositions for piano Fabricación (1922), Fundición (1921), and Aserradero (1922) interpreted by Patricia Mendoza with analysis by Adriana Santos Melgarejo. We will be presenting this concert lecture as part of the Gender and Musicianship conference at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki on January 25th, 2022 https://vimeo.com/668427447 In this…
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Creative Media Responses to Diasporic Writing – Partnership with Reading Migration Library (RML) Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) and SFUs Community Engagement Initative (CEI)
We are incredibly excited to announce that in partnership with Reading the Migration Library (led by cMAS post-doctoral fellow Lois Klassen) and Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana, we will soon be embarking on an experimental project that will creatively circulate (or migrate) writing and art about diaspora. New funding from SFU’s…
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Gabriel Juliano presenting at Borderline Sonorities ” Blackness as Decolonial Expression of Resistance in Baco Exú do Blues’ Bluesman”
Gabriel Juliano (cMAS PhD student) will be presenting preliminary findings of his doctoral research at Borderline Sonorities ( Sonoridades Fronteiriças) on June 9, 2021. Juliano’s research investigates representations of black resistance in Brazilian media arts and music with a particular focus on their pedagogical potential. In Blackness as Decolonial Expression of Resistance in Baco Exú…