Projects - Hemispheric Encounters

Projects

ARCHIVO: Documenting Visual Artists of the Latin American Diaspora in Canada

Performance Art Daily – A Conversation with Juma Pariri, Theo Jean Cuthand, and Archer Pechawis

Archives , Ecologies

Vessels, Vulnerability, and Presence as Process ~ Archival Experimentations

Micropodcasts: Soundscapes of Memory / Paisajes sonoros de la memoria

FREEFORM TO TRANSFORM – Poéticas do Ativismo Feminista

Archives , Oralities

The Abya Yala Sowing Tour 2023 – Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air (Ar quente)

Archives , Oralities

“A Convivencia é uma Ilha” (“Coexistence is an island”) – Research-Creation in Unstable Territories

Performing Archives: The Practice of Gathering Residency

Soundscapes of Memory – Paisajes Sonoros de la Memoria

Do rio ao mar – Rio Paraíba vivo! / From the river to the sea – Paraíba river lives!

Women artists in Brazil – Oscillating between democracy and dictatorship?

Gretta Sarfaty doing her performance at the Mitos Vadios collective happening in 1978 Sao Paulo

Danzantes del Alba, Teatro Línea de Sombra

This photograph pictures a stage with dozens of colourful, shaggy costumes suspended in the air. Below them is a crowd of people gathered, looking at and taking pictures of the costumes. There's fog in the air against the black background of the theatre.

Latin American Media Arts Symposium (LAMAS)

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

Hemispheric Performance Creation – A Case Study

THIS IS BALLROOM

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

Archiving Spatial Ecologies Residency

Archives , Ecologies

A group of six smiling people gathering for a picture in front of a big, colourful graffiti wall.

Stages in Movement — Teatro Línea de Sombra on the Migrant Trail

This is a photograph from Teatro Linea de Sombra's production of Amarillo. It pictures a stage with a blue projection. In the background there are many large bags filled with sand suspended around the set. In the foreground, a woman with dark curly hair wearing black clothing sits in a chair. In the background, a person stands wearing a long, flowy, yellow garment.

An Amulet for a City & An Amulet for the Journey

Las Eras

Three large piles of salt in a salt field. A reflection of the blue sky and white clouds reverberates from the shiny ground.

PAN – A film by Alex de las Heras

Transnational Gatherings: Activist Interventions with Archives

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

Crossing Borders: Meeting of Art and Mobility

a young man stands in front of a painting of an aerial view of a community of houses.

Expanded Oralities Lab – Montréal

A colour photograph of 3 people in a lush green garden. They chat while their hands are busy with the plants.

CHRONIC by Jehan Roberson at FADO’s On the Table Off the Table

A photo of Jehan Roberson gazing down at a large table arranged with many pill bottles. A small audience of people sit and stand behind her in a library. Jehan is a Black woman. Her hair is tied up with a headband, her large hoop earrings shine. She wears a white shirt and a black blazer.

For What It’s Worth

Archives , Mobilities

A colour photo of Jess Dobkin's immersive installation called For What It's Worth. This image shows a dark room with warm lighting illuminating three installation stations. One a an open refrigerator strewn with milk and breast pumps, another appears to be a pink, fabric orb, and the last is a work desk strewn chaotically with milk threads, computer, and chairs on top of the desk

Expo-Cobas

Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

Call for Submissions – 2023-2024 Hemispheric Encounters Postdoctoral Fellowship

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

A young black woman gestures with her right hand as she speaks

Chicano Fest

This is a colour photo of 5 young men with deep cholo style standing in front of a graffiti mural. They make gang signs with their hands.

Esculpir el Silencio

A hand with taupe stiletto nails holds a handful of salt.

PROCESSION: New Queer/Trans Global Cinemas

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

A person stands in front of a text-filled projection. The person gestures towards the screen. The text refers to prostitution-related offences and sex work.

Visualizing Foodways Field School: Art, Food, and Food Systems from Hemispheric Perspectives

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

The nopales (cactus) field is full of plants and people. A small group gathers to learn about farming.

“Bukele y la reinvención de la comunicación política” / “Bukele y la reinvención de la comunicación política” – Distinguished Lecture by Amparo Marroquín

This is a photograph. On the left a man stands with his hands on the head of a man who kneels at his feet. Behind them are a group of people in suits, some have their hands raised in the air.

ativAÇÕES perforMÁGICAS (in)díg(e)nas contra a farsa da representação colonial

Archives , Ecologies

Indigenous Cinema 2022 — Images to Postpone the End of the World

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

Title image for film series: Images to Postpone the End of the World

Scenographies of site-writing and critical spatial practices across the Americas

A Home for Our Migrations – Symposium

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

A panel of 5 people sit in a semi-circle in front of a large projection of images.

Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective

Spatial Ecologies

Sustainable Tools for a Just Transition

We look up at a tall old tree. Its branches are bare of leaves. There's a tree house in the grey sky and a person is dangling next to the tree. This is a photo of a treesitting action in the path of extractive development in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Transiting the Queer (Un)commons: Queer Summer Institute in Research Creation

Archives , Ecologies , Mobilities , Oralities

A performer wears an elaborate, textured pink vulva head piece and mask. They kneel in front of a green screen. On the edges of the image we see production screens, lights, and crew members.

You Should Have Stayed Home

NO NOS CREEN

Archives , Oralities

An image of the sound file and a poster from Marion Velasco's Soundcloud page. The poster is a black and white drawing of two eyes and the text "Ni perdon ni olvido no dejemos de luchar."

Migrar es respirar -  Intervocal

Hemispheric Encounters with Performance Art Archivists

Intimate Architectures: Displacement, Irruption, and Emergency in the Americas

Black Histories in the Eastern Townships Online Exhibition

The Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair

Portals, Potions, and Archives with Jehan Roberson

States of Migration Film Series

Latin American Speakers Series 2021: Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Mobilities , Oralities

Constructing the Flesh: Discourses of Gender and Disability in Performance in Mexico