collaborated on several research-creation projects that explore political performance, site-specificity, archives, and digital technologies. Mostly recently she has served as dramaturg on Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective (2021) and SpiderWebShow’s VR production, You Should Have Stayed Home (2022). Laura is Director and PI of Hemispheric Encounters.
Tracy Tidgwell
Producer & Project Manager, Hemispheric Encounters, York University
Alina Peña Iguarán
Mobilities Lead & Co-Investigator, ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Amparo Marroquín Parducci
Mobilities Lead & Co-Investigator, Universidad Centroamericana of El Salvador
Jess Dobkin
Performing Archives Lead & Collaborating Artist
Kim Sawchuk
Oralities Lead & Co-Investigator, Concordia University
Marcial Godoy-Anativia
Mobilities Lead & Co-Investigator, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University
Paolo Vignolo
Oralities Lead & Co-Investigator, National University of Colombia, Bogota
Alex de las Heras
Hemispheric Encounters Research Assistant
Selena Couture
Ecologies Lead & Co-Investigator, University Alberta
Sérgio P. Andrade
Ecologies Lead & Co-Investigator, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Anna Agazzi Migotto
Hemispheric Encounters Special Events Assistant
Arseli Dokumaci
Co-Investigator, AIM Lab, Concordia University
Beatriz Pizano
Collaborator, Aluna Theatre
Carlota McAlliste
Collaborator, York University
Daiana Bruzzone
Collaborator, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Dan Pon
Collaborator, grunt gallery
https://archivesweek.ca/
https://grunt.ca/
Daniella Castillo Chen
RAY Student, Web and Digital Content Coordinator, York University
Diana Taylor
Co-Investigator, New York University
Dot Tuer
Co-Investigator, Ontario College of Art and Design University
https://www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/alberto-gomez-and-dot-tuer.html
https://ocad.academia.edu/DotTuer
https://www2.ocadu.ca/bio/dot-tuer
Fernando Codeço
Hemispheric Encounters Postdoctoral Scholar/Artist
Fernando develops works based on the socio-environmental phenomenon of marine erosion that has affected Atafona beach, located in the north of Rio de Janeiro State, for more than 70 years. From the popular idea that "the sea consumes the houses" and the territory of Atafona, he created the concept of "ecophagy" as an existential metaphor, a field of aesthetic experimentation, and a mode of cultural criticism in times of environmental collapse. For his postdoctoral project, Fernando will build on this research while studying other territories in Brazil and across the Americas facing similar situations of extreme destabilization, and develop a performative work in collaboration with Grupo Erosão weaving together a collage of fragments of the life stories of people whose territories were threatened by neo-extraction processes and/or resulting environmental changes. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, he will be hosted by the Postgraduate Program in Dance at UFRJ (Brazil) and supervised by Sérgio Andrade.
https://www.fernandocodeco.com/
https://www.casaduna.org/
Frê Almeida
Hemispheric Encounters Research Assistant
Guilherme E. Meyer
Hemispheric Encounters Research Assistant
Jennifer Willet
Co-Investigator, University of Windsor
www.incubatorartlab.com
https://visualartsnews.ca/2021/07/life-in-silos/
https://www.covidcreative.ca/
Jesusa Rodríguez
Collaborator, Resistencia Creativa
Jehan Roberson
Collaborator, Cornell University
Juan Carlos Saavedra
Collaborator and Community Partner, Teatro Ciego
Juma Pariri
Hemispheric Encounters Postdoctoral Scholar/Artist
Jimena Ortúzar
Hemispheric Encounters Postdoctoral Scholar
Lee Rodney
Collaborator, University of Windsor
http://frontierfiles.org/
http://www.buoyantcartographies.com/about
Lucas Liu
Video and Media Creator
Kimberly Skye Richards
Hemispheric Encounters Research Fellow
Marion Velasco
Hemispheric Encounters Postdoctoral Scholar/Artist
María Jose Contreras Lorenzini
Co-Investigator, Universidad Católica de Chile
Nicole Cartier Barrera
Collaborator
Mark Sussman
Co-Investigator, Concordia University
Natalie Alvarez
Co-Investigator, Toronto Metropolitan University
Peter Morin
Co-Investigator, Ontario College of Art and Design University
Patricia Branco Cornish
Collaborator
Peter K. Kulchyski
Co-Investigator, University Manitoba
https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/native_studies/people/kulchyski.html
http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc14-5-minute-manifestos/item/2606-enc14-5min-kulchyski
https://sixgestures.hemi.press
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/personal-dimension-bush-life
Shannon Cochrane
Community Partner, FADO Performance Art Centre
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Co-Investigator, University of British Columbia
Shauna Janssen
Co-Investigator, Concordia University
www.performativeurbanism.com
www.shaunajanssen.ca
Roewan Crowe
Co-Investigator, University of Winnipeg
Sofía Acosta Varea
Collaborator, Mirador Collectivo
Links: www.lasuerte.art
IG @l_a_s_u_e_r_t_e
Sol Pérez Jiménez
Collaborator, Activist and Scholar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
AChttps://fundar.org.mx/
Smaro Kamboureli
Co-Investigator, University of Toronto
of numerous books, including Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada, winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Literary Criticism. Her collection of essays, co-edited with Larissa Lai, Land / Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures, is forthcoming. For a full list of her books and publications, visit
www.smarokamboureli.ca
Stephen Lawson
Collaborator, 2boystv
www.2boys.tv
https://cabaretcommons.org/
https://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/
Sophia Zhou
RAY Student, Web and Media Creator, York University
Stephanie Sherman
Hemispheric Encounters Artist-in-Residence, Concordia University
Trevor Schwellnus
Community Partner, Aluna Theatre
He has designed with dozens of companies on over a hundred shows since 1999, including: The Theatre Centre, Cahoots, Modern Times Stage Company, Obsidian Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Theatre Passe Muraille, La Corporación Colombiana de Teatro, Ame Henderson, Dancemakers, and others.
He redesigned Toronto’s Dora Award statuette in 2019, has 6 Dora Awards (of 18 nominations), and was shortlisted for the 2015 Siminovich Award.
Tamara Toledo
Community Partner, LACAP: Latin American-Canadian Art Projects & Sur Gallery
Tatiane Reis
Research Assistant, Hemispheric Encounters
Warren Cariou
Oralities Lead & Co-Investigator, University of Manitoba
For more information visit www.warrencariou.com
Véro Leduc
Co-Investigator, Université du Québec à Montréal
Links:
- www.professeurs.uqam.ca/professeur/leduc.veronique
- Musiques au bout des doigts / Music at the fingertips: https://actproject.ca/act/musique-au-bout-des-doigts/
- Nos mains qui vibrent / Our vibrant hands: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8777738
- On vous fait signe / We're waving hands : https://www.signe.media/
- Chaire de recherche / Research chair: https://equite-culturelle.uqam.ca/
Zoë Heyn-Jones
Collaborator, Centre for Sustainable Curating, Western University
www.zoeheynjones.com
Additional team members include:
Ana Dopico, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University
Kathleen Buddle, Co-Investigator, University Manitoba
Alberto J. Guevara, Collaborator, York University
Aldo Jorge Ledón Pereyra, Community Partner, Voces Mesoamericanas
Allison Collins, Collaborator, Western Front Gallery
Amanda Lotspike, Collaborator, New York University
Benjamin Arditi, Collaborator, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Edno Faria, Community Partner, Radio Nativa
Emilie Monnet, Collaborator, Onishka Productions
Freya B. Olafson, Collaborator, York University
Gerardo Calderón, Community Partner, Teatro Azoro
Jacques Servin, Collaborator, The Yes Men
Juan Carlos Ruiz, Collaborator, Sanctuary Neighborhoods
Rolf Abderhalden Cortés, Collaborator, Mapa Teatro
Tareke Ortiz Cisneros, Collaborator, Intervocal
Teresa Ralli, Collaborator, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani
