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The Coop: HEN Hangouts
In February 2023, we launched The Coop: A Hen Hangout, a monthly virtual get-together for artists, activists, academics, and students involved with Hemispheric Encounters Network (HEN). The Coop creates space for HEN network members to meet each other and share our research and works-in-progress in an informal, supportive setting. Each month we curate a presenter or panel and follow up with discussions, feedback, and sparks for future collaborations. The format and languages of each gathering will vary according to the guests and topics, but we strive to keep sessions lively, flexible, and within an hour. The Coop is a relaxed space: bring beverages and snacks; costumes are encouraged.
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Adela Goldbard on the poetics of violence in her collaborative film ethnography work with the Quechua
Adela Goldbard is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar from Mexico. With her research/practice, she investigates how radical community performances can subvert dominant narratives, while also exploring the transformative potential of violence and destruction as aesthetic tools in the resistance against power. In this session of The Coop Adela presented her collaborative work with the Quechua communities of…
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ARCHIVIO: soJin Chun and Edrimael Delgado Reyes
This session of The Coop featured presentations by interdisciplinary artists soJin Chun (Toronto) and Edrimael Delgado Reyes (Puerto Rico). The Q&A was moderated by Luz Sierra, Archivist at Sur Gallery and ARCHIVO Researcher. This talk was presented in English with automated English transcription. Co-presented by Sur Gallery’s ARCHIVO project (surgalleryvirtual.ca/archivo) and Sensorium: Centre for Digital…
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Ativismos Feministas Latino-Americanos e Performance Sonora
Ativismos Feministas Latino-Americanos e Performance Sonora com Marion Velasco, Paula Arrieta e Alice Porto. Moderado por Maria José Contreras Nesta sessão do The Coop, Marion Velasco, bolsista de pós-doutorado da Hemispheric Encounters, apresenta seus projetos de pesquisa-criação de pós-doutorado em conversa com duas colaboradoras, Paula Arrieta e Alice Porto. Moderado por María José Contreras. Esta…
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Cyborgs and Speculative Futures
At this session of The Coop, Álex de las Heras and Diana Martínez presented their audiovisual and sound works that seek to uncover ideas of the future, the human, and our relationship with technology, among others. From the Colombian context, both Alex and Diana show us different ways that art and scholarship are forms of…
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Rehearsing the Future: The Zip Code Memory Project
On June 6, 2023, Diana Taylor and María José Contreras presented “Rehearsing the Future,” a talk about the “The Zip Code Memory Project” (ZCMP) which seeks to find community-based ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. The ZCMP,…
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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…
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Underground queer communities in virtual reality with T Braun
For our first Hangout, T Braun presented their research-creation project with underground queer communities in social virtual reality. T is a PhD student at Concordia University, a Research Assistant with the Hemispheric Encounters Oralities Cluster, and a member of The Coop’s curatorial team.
