Archives and activist performance with Juma Pariri, Kimberly Richards, and Nicole Cartier

Hemispheric Encounters (HEN) collaborators Juma Pariri, Kimberly Richards, and Nicole Cartier shared their research-creation work on conceptualizing and creating archives on activist performance in the Americas.

Juma Pariri, 2022 HEN postdoctoral artist-scholar, presented (In)dig(e)nous perforMAGICAL ACTvations against the farce of colonial representation: a project of (walking) archive. This project explores embodied, Indigenous resistance as a way into the past, present, and future.

Nicole Cartier presented A Guide for the Afflicted and Defiant, a curated collection of pathways of resistance, a project that rises from the collaboration between seven cultural agents in Colombia as a response to the protests in 2020 and 2021.

Kimberly Richards presented Sustainable Tools for Just Transitions, an archive of performance-based strategies to promote and mobilize public support for a just transition from the inequities of the fossil economy and our existing extractive systems. These tools and strategies are grounded in Indigenous, decolonial, feminist, queer, and multispecies frameworks.