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Latinx-Canadian Visual and Media Arts as Decolonial Efforts: Mapping and Questioning Initiatives Across Canada
Who said there is no Latin/Latinx art in Canada? Yesterday, I had the pleasure to chair an amazing discussion on Latin/Latinx Art in Canada with four amazing scholars of Latin/x- Canadian Art, Analays Alvarez, Zaira Zarza, Tamara Toledo and Sarah Shamash at UAAC/AAUC 2022 Stay tuned for our upcoming book on the topic! Here is…
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XII Reunión del Seminario Permanente CIESAS-INAH-UBC Memoria Ciudadana
This past October 20 and 21 Gabriela participated in the XII Meeting of the Permanent Seminar CIESAS-INAH-UBC Citizen Memory “Personal documents and life stories, continuation” organized by Dr. Julia Preciado. I presented some advances on a research project that uses autobiography as a method and the personal archive of my mother, the artist Gabriela Sepúlveda…
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Latin American Visual Histories: Paradigms/Aporias/Methods, organized by Jessica Stites-Mor and Ernesto Capello this weekend at the Banff Centre, October 7-8, 2022.
Members of cMAS are excited to participate in Latin American Visual Histories: Paradigms/Aporias/Methods, organized by Jessica Stites-Mor and Ernesto Capello, this weekend at the Banff Centre from October 7-8, 2022. Gabriel Juliano Mora will present advances in his doctoral research on Brazilian rappers. His talk “‘Contemporary Media Arts Epistemologies: Brazilian Rappers’ Practice as Knowledge-making” will…
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Activating the Archive: An Overview of Media-Based Research-Creation projects across the Americas
On Wednesday August 24 I will be chairing a panel on media-based research-creation projects with colleagues, collaborators and members of cMAS. If you are participating in CALACS this year, please join us. Sarah Shamash, Catherine Pearce, Maira Cristina Castro Mina, Daisy Quezada, Lois Klassen and Gabriel Juliano will present various creative engagements with Latin American…
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Becoming Latinx-Canadian(s) : Artists, Curators, and Filmmakers of the Latin American Diaspora(s) in Canada @ LASA 2022
Organizer: Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda Co-chairs: Analays Alvarez and Zaria Zarza Discussant: Alessandra Santos In Canada, the identity category “Latinx-Canadian,” and other Latin American identities, have evolved under the hegemony of categories developed in the United States such as “Latino/a” and, more recently, “Latinx.” While the latter are deeply embedded in the historical and contemporary race…
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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…
