LASA 2025 Poner el Cuerpo en Latinx América // Travelling Bodies: Latinx- Artists and Filmmakers and Border-Crossing Dynamics//

On May 26 I participated in the panel “Travelling Bodies: Latinx- Artists and Filmmakers and Border-Crossing Dynamics” organized by Analays Alvarez Hernandez (Université de Montréal) with the presentation "Travelling Videos/Emerging Identities:  Indigenous and Latinx Video Art from South, Central and North America in Canada"  focusing on Abo: Videos That Unmask, Test & Invade the Colonial System (1992), a three-day video festival of Indigenous and Latinx video artists from diverse Indigenous communities (Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, Mayan communities in the U.S. and productions by Queer Chicanx Osa de la Riva) hosted at VIVO Media Arts in Vancouver, Canada and curated by Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker Dana Claxton and members of the Latino Midwest Video Collective, Melba Alfaro and Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet.

The panel also included presentations by Analays Alvarez Hernandez, To Biennale or not to Biennale?* Latinx- Artists’ (Multidirectional) Journeys to Venice, Tamara Toledo, Navigating Identification Politics in Canada, and Amanda Gutiérrez. Xeno Walk: Approaching Feminism as a Social and Bodily Engagement in Montreal’s Public Space.

You can watch a video of my presentation here: