Equipo

Laura Levin is Associate Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies and Associate Dean, Research in York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design. She is author of Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending In (Ann Saddlemyer Prize) and Co-Editor of Performance Studies in Canada , with Marlis Schweitzer (Patrick O’Neill Award). Laura has led and 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.

Amparo Marroquín Parducci es profesora del Departamento de Comunicación y Cultura en la Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) de El Salvador desde 1997. Ha sido profesora invitada en universidades de Nicaragua, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia entre otras. Es parte del equipo coordinador del grupo de investigación sobre Comunicación política y ciudadanías para CLACSO e investigadora del Centro Internacional de Estudios sobre epistemologías de fronteras y economía política de la cultura en Chile. Consultora para organismos internacionales como GIZ, PNUD, Ford Foundation y Friedrich Ebert Stiftung entre otros. Sus investigaciones se han centrado en revisar la manera como las identidades, las culturas y las narrativas en los medios de comunicación han cambiado a partir del protagonismo de los procesos migratorios, la conformación de la memoria y el patrimonio intangible, y de las formas como se nombran las violencias, en particular, aquellas que iniciaron en la década de 1990.

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Marcial Godoy-Anativia is a sociocultural anthropologist and the Managing Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. He is Editor of emisférica, the Institute's trilingual online journal. His publications include "Area Studies and the Decade after 9/11" (2016) with Seteney Shami; Religiones, matrimonio igualitario y aborto: Alianzas con y entre actores religiosos por los derechos sexuales y reproductivos en Argentina (2014) with Daniel Jones y Angélica Peña; Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (2013) with Zeynep Gambetti; and Ciudades Translocales: Espacios, flujo, representación—Perspectivas desde las Américas (2005) with Rossana Reguillo. From 2000-2007, he worked in the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean and the Program on International Collaboration at the Social Science Research Council. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

Selena Couture is a settler scholar and an Associate Professor in Drama at the University of Alberta in Treaty 6 territory / Métis Region No.4. Her research deconstructs conceptions of settler colonial white possession while foregrounding the maintenance of Indigenous places through performance. Publications include: Against the Current and Into the Light (2020) and On this Patch of Grass (2018). She is part of the Kule scholar cohort focusing on Climate Resilience in the 21st Century. Her research responds to the crisis of global warming, aiming to create responsible relations with Indigenous people, lands and all other-than-human beings.

Anna Agazzi Migotto is a Brazilian-Canadian environmental activist, photographer, film-maker, and aspiring biologist, inspired by life’s manifestations though light. She is proudly the new Special Events Assistant for Hemispheric Encounters. Anna has worked across research, environmental education and design, as a part of the Institute of Ecological Research (IPE) in Brazil. She also produces diverse independent art projects such as her new forthcoming short-film: “The flood from sky to ground”. The “scientist side of Anna" is currently researching the migratory patterns of juvenile Wood Thrushes as her final thesis at York University’s Faculty of Science, under the supervision of Dr. Bridget Stutchbury.

Carlota McAllister es profesora asociada en la Facultad de Medio Ambiente y Cambio Urbano de York University en Toronto, Canadá. Como antropóloga política e histórica, McAllister estudia la formación de la agencia política y moral en situaciones de conflicto o crisis en comunidades agrarias de Guatemala y Chile, utilizando herramientas teóricas de la antropología de la religión, la teoría del actor-red, los estudios de performance, la antropología feminista y la ecología política. Junto a Diane Nelson co-editó War by Other Means: Aftermath in Postgenocide Guatemala (Duke UP, 2013), y su monografía The Good Road: Conscience and Consciousness in a Post-Revolutionary Mayan Village in Guatemala se publicará próximamente con Duke University Press.

Daniella Castillo Chen es una estudiante que cursa la licenciatura de Producción de Cine en York University.
En el 2021, se muda de Panamá a Toronto, Canadá, para perseguir una carrera como cineasta.
Desde muy joven le ha apasionado contar historias y las diferentes formas en que podemos usar el arte como vehículo para el cambio.
Por lo tanto, comenzando con una carrera como una autora juvenil de novelas a los 13 años, decidió aprender y experimentar con la narración visual en sus estudios postsecundarios.
En los últimos dos años, Daniella ha podido desarrollar sus habilidades en producción audiovisual y aprender de compañeros talentosos en su programa.
Ahora, se une al equipo de Encuentros Hemisféricos como Coordinadora Web y Digital, emocionada de ser parte de un equipo creativo y diverso de artistas y académicos.

Fernando Codeço is an artist and a researcher. He investigates performance as a form of listening, production of oral knowledge, space for meeting and collective learning. Fernando is interested in the ecopolitics of arts in the context of climate emergency and forms of resistance to processes of extractivism and environmental degradation. He develops performative, transmedia and transdisciplinary research as co-founder of CasaDuna - Center for Art, Research and Memory and director of the theatre company Grupo Erosão. Fernando has a doctorate in Performing Arts from the UNIRIO (Brazil) in co-supervision with the UPJV (France). At UNIRO, he studied theatre, theory, visual arts, and contemporary dance. His thesis ‘Teatralidades da Erosão’ was nominated for the Capes 2022 award. His video, ‘Museu Ambulante’ won the Jean Rouch award for best medium-length film at the 2022 Pará International Ethnographic Festival. He has participated in several art festivals in Brazil and abroad.

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/

Jehan Roberson es una escritora y artista cuir que trabaja en memoria y archivos usando el texto como la base de su práctica artística interdisciplinaria.
Nacida y criada en Memphis, Tennessee, Jehan explora las prácticas textuales cuir y negras como sitios de liberación, creación de espacios, y como intervenciones en el archivo.
Sus textos han sido o serán publicados en Criticism, Recess Art, Public Books, Apogee, ZORA, Women & Performance, and Autostraddle, entre otros.
Actualmente vive en Ithaca, NY donde realiza un doctorado en el departamento de literaturas en inglés de Cornell.
Photo © Jay Bendett Rose.

Jimena Ortúzar es becaria postdoctoral con Encuentros Hemisféricos en la facultad de artes, media, performance y diseño de la Universidad de York.
Recibió su doctorado de la Universidad de Toronto (en drama, teatro y performance, y en estudios transnacionales y de la diáspora).
Su investigación explora el trabajo, la migración y el género a través de la performance, y sus escritos se encuentran en revistas internacionales y libros sobre arte y activismo, teatro contemporáneo y performance Latinoamericana-Canadiense.
También es colaboradora en Gatherings, un proyecto sobre historias orales y archivísticas de la performance.

Kimberly Skye Richards es una académica descendiente de colonos europeos cuyos escritos, pedagogía, activismo y trabajo artístico abordan la performance como un medio para resistir el extractivismo e inspirar una transición energética justa. Recientemente co-editó un número de Canadian Theatre Review sobre Extractivismo y Performance (abril 2020). También ha publicado en TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times, y An Ecotopian Lexicon: Loanwords to Live With. Actualmente, Kim enseña en la Escuela de Periodismo, Escritura y Medios de la Universidad de British Columbia. Es miembro del círculo SCALE, una organización de liderazgo en el sector de las Artes Climáticas frente a la Emergencia.

María Jose Contreras Lorenzini is a Chilean performance artist and scholar. She holds a Ph.D from Università di Bologna and is Associate Professor at the Theater School at Universidad Católica de Chile. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. Using a wide range of formats, from massive public interventions to intimate actions of resistance, Contreras creatively explores the relation between the body and memory. Her work, presented throughout the Americas and Europe, include theatre productions, site-specific performances, durational performances, and urban interventions. She is one of 70 international artists featured in The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (Routledge 2020). More info at www.mariajosecontreras.com

Natalie Álvarez es Profesora de Estudios de Teatro y Performance en la Escuela de Performance y Decana Asociada de Actividades Creativas, Investigación y Académica en la Facultad de Comunicación y Diseño de la Universidad Metropolitana de Toronto, Ontario, Canadá. Álvarez es autora, co-editora y editora de cuatro libros premiados: Inmersiones en la diferencia cultural: turismo, guerra y performance (prensa de la Universidad de Michigan, 2018), Instrumentos sostenibles para tiempos precarios: acciones en las Américas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Ensayos sobre el teatro canadiense latino y Fronteras vivientes: ocho obras latinas (Playwrights Canada Press, 2013). Su libro más reciente, Teatro y guerra, está en imprenta con Bloomsbury. Su trabajo sobre performance de inmersion en la esfera pública, performance contemporánea y activismo en las Américas se ha publicado ampliamente en revistas internacionales y colecciones de ensayos.

Peter Kulchyski is a Professor and former Department Head of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. His books include the award winning Tammarniit [Mistakes] with Frank Tester (American Society for Ethnohistory book of the year) and Like the Sound of a Drum (Manitoba non-fiction book of the year) as well as Kiumajut [Talking Back] also with Tester, The Red Indians; Aboriginal Rights are not Human Rights; and Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice. Kulchyski has engaged in research and social justice activism in a wide range of arctic and subarctic Indigenous communities. From 2013 to 2020 he was Co-Director of the Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas.
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

Roewan Crowe is an artist, writer, and professor. Through the use of performance, installation, video, text, and theory, Crowe creates intimate landscapes, making space for connection and stange encounters. Their practice engages in material explorations, questions of form, site-specificity, and collaborative processes. Work includes: digShift, an environmental reclamation project; Lifting Stone, a queer femme performance/installation creating intimate poetic encounters; and the book Quivering Land, a gritty feminist meditation on the possibilities of art. Crowe co-edited with Helen Vosters, the Hemi Press digital book, Return Atacama: Engaging Histories of Political Violence Through Performance and Durational Witnessing, documenting the return of artist Monica Martinez and the artist collective, CONSTELACIONES, to the Atacama Desert in Chile. Alongside co-pollinatrix Dallas Cant they recently launched the SWARM arc.hive www.swarm.greenhouseartlab.com , a sympoetic, more-than-human, artistic encounter with bees. Crowe’s paid gig: Associate Professor, WGS at the University of Winnipeg. Visit www.roewancrowe.com .

Smaro Kamboureli is the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Prior to this appointment, she was Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Critical Studies in Canadian Literature at the University of Guelph, where she founded and directed TransCanada Institute. Her most recent publications include her articles “Literary Solidarities: ‘Should I be here?’,” her introduction to the University of Toronto Quarterly special issue that she co-edited with Tania Aguila-Way, and “Diaspora” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, as well as the bilingual English / Italian edition of her poetry book, in the second person, in seconda persona. She is the author 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

Stephanie Sherman is a queer, bilingual, bicultural, interdisciplinary feminist educator, choreographer, dancer, poet, and activist who creates collaborations between artivists across the Américas. She has been faculty at Mills College, the University of Texas El Paso, la Academia de la Danza Mexicana, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Mexico), la Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico). She has been a guest teacher at the Centro Universitario de Teatro at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico) and the Universidad Central del Ecuador. She is currently a Hemispheric Encounters Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, where she is creating a transborder video-dance about accessibility with Deaf and disabled artists from Montreal and Mexico City. She will become faculty at California College in the Spring. She has a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley, an MFA in Dance from NYU, a BA in Hispanic Studies from Vassar College, and has received two Fulbright Awards (Mexico, Postdoctoral, 2018; Ecuador, 2006). During her Mexico Fulbright at the UNAM, she collaborated with Teatro Ciego, a blind theater company, on deconstructing gender through movement. www.stephanie-sherman.com

Tatiane Reis está siempre buscando conocimiento teórico y experiencia práctica para luchar por la justicia social, especialmente en el Sur Global.
u experiencia como profesora de historia en Brasil fue una de las formas que encontró para compartir conocimientos y fomentar la acción comunitaria.
Como estudiante de doctorado afrobrasileña en Estudios de Género, Feministas y de las Mujeres en la Universidad de York, se ha dedicado a visibilizar las contribuciones intelectuales y artísticas de las mujeres racializadas más allá de los entornos académicos.
Para su tesis, está investigando los impactos de las actividades mineras en el trabajo remunerado y no remunerado de las mujeres en el sur de África.
Desde 2022, Tatiane ha contribuido en diferentes actividades de Encuentros Hemisféricos, principalmente en interpretación y traducción.

Zoë Heyn-Jones is a settler researcher-artist and cultural worker who grew up on Saugeen Ojibway land in Ontario, Canada and on Tz’utujil/Kaqchikel Maya land in Guatemala. Zoë holds a PhD in Visual Arts from York University and a graduate diploma in Latin American Studies from CERLAC (the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University). Zoë is currently a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the department of Visual Arts at Western University where she is developing an interdisciplinary arts-based project on food security, sovereignty and justice in Canada and Mexico. She lives and works in Tenochtitlán/Mexico City and Tkaranto/Toronto.
www.zoeheynjones.com

Tracy Tidgwell trabaja en los pliegues entre el proceso, la conexión y el cuerpo. Tracy es coeditora de The Future is Fat, una colección de intervenciones académicas y artísticas que reimaginan la comprensión del tiempo para permitir nuevas expresiones de la experiencia gorda, creadora de Anywhere Near Us, una colección de audio performances de textos cuir, miembro de Fat Rose, una incubadora de arte y activismo para la liberación gorda, y es productora y gestora de proyectos de Encuentros Hemisféricos: Desarrollando prácticas transfronterizas de investigación-Creación en la Escuela de Artes, Medios, Performance y Diseño de la Universidad de York.

Jess Dobkin has been a working artist, curator, community activist, mentor and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo theatre performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and talks. Her practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. She operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. Her film and video works are distributed by Vtape and traces of her performance work are held in performance art archives internationally. jessdobkin.com

Paolo Vignolo es profesor asociado en el Departamento de Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, en Bogotá. Sus áreas de investigación y creación son la historia pública, el patrimonio cultural y la memoria, con un enfoque en las artes escénicas, la performance y los imaginarios geográficos. Tiene un doctorado en Historia por la EHESS (Escuela de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales) de París.‏‏ En 2012-13 fue profesor invitado en el Centro David Rockefeller de Estudios Latinoamericanos (DRCLAS) de la Universidad de Harvard y en 2023 será becario en el Centro Kate Hamburger de Estudios Apocalípticos y Postapocalípticos (CAPAS) de la Universidad de Heidelberg. Es miembro del Instituto Hemisférico de Performance y Política de la Universidad de Nueva York y de Transformative Memory Network de la Universidad de British Columbia, Vancouver.

Sérgio P. Andrade, PhD, is an artist, professor and researcher in dance, performance and philosophy. Since 2012, he has been a Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in the Department of Bodily Art, teaching at the Undergraduate and Graduate Dance Programs. He coordinates the Laboratório de Crítica (the "LabCrítica") at UFRJ, in which he develops several collaborative research-creation activities, training, publication, curatorship and exchange in dance and performance. Some recent results of this work are the book "Performar Debates" (2017) and the two editions of the conference and performance showcase "Trans-In-Corporados", which took place at Rio Art Museum in 2017 and 2018. www.labcritica.com.br | sergio.andrade@eefd.ufrj.br

Arseli Dokumaci is Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Media Technologies and an assistant professor at Concordia University. She is also the director of the AIM (Access in the making) Lab. Arseli is an interdisciplinary scholar and creative practitioner. Her scholarly and creative work lies at the crossovers of disability studies, performance studies, media studies and medical anthropology. In her research and research-creation videos, Arseli explores how disabled people go about their everyday lives, and come up with micro, improvisational solutions that she theorizes as activist affordances. Arseli is particularly interested in exploring how disability can be a critical a method to rethink and practice media in new ways. Arseli is currently launching a four-year SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary team project, entitled "Mobilizing disability survival skills for the urgencies of the Anthropocene".https://accessinthemaking.ca/

Daiana Bruzzone has a doctorate in Social Communication from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. She is a teacher and researcher at the department of Journalism and Social Communication, director of the Specialization in Communication and Youth, and member of the Aníbal Ford Institute for Communication Studies. She is also a member of the CLACSO Working Group on Communication, Politics and Citizenship in Latin America and of the CLACSO Working Group on Youth and Childhood. She teaches at the Universidad del Este, Argentina, and in the PhD in Communication at the Universidad de la Frontera, Chile. One of her salient publications is the book Todos duros. Hijos del neoliberalismo: claves de las relaciones entre jóvenes, afectos y subjetividad corporal en los consumos de drogas (published in 2020 by Editor Grupo Universitario, available through the publisher, Editor Grupo Universitario .

Diana Taylor es Profesora Universitaria de Estudios de Performance y de Español en la Universidad de Nueva York. Es autora de varios libros premiados, incluyendo Theatre of Crisis (1991), Disappearing Acts (1997), El Archivo y el Repertorio (2003), Performance (2016), y ¡Presente! The Politics of Presence (2020), y es co-editora de Holy Terrors (2003), Stages of Conflict (2008) y Lecturas avanzadas de Performance (2011), entre otros. Taylor fundó el Instituto Hemisférico de Performance y Política, y fue su directora entre 1998 y 2020. Taylor ha recibido la Beca Guggenheim, entre otras importantes becas. En 2017 fue presidenta de la Modern Language Association (MLA). En 2018 fue incluida en la Academia de Artes y Ciencias de los Estados Unidos. En 2021, Taylor recibió el premio Edwin Booth por su “contribución excepcional a la comunidad teatral de Nueva York y por promover la integración del teatro profesional y académico.” Ella co-dirige el proyecto Zip Code Memory Project.

Frê Almeida is a multilingual artist experimenting with sound, music, photography and poetry. They also work with translation and subtitling services for audiovisuals. Frê holds a B.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (USP) and an A.A. degree in Technical Performing Arts from SP School of Theatre. Currently they are a M.A. student in Philosophy at Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) researching the body-city relations and its implications to the environmental crisis.

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Dr. Jennifer Willet is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology and an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor (Canada.) Willet is Director of INCUBATOR Lab an art/science research laboratory and studio in downtown Windsor. She is an internationally successful artist and curator in the emerging field of bioart. Her work resides at the intersection of art and science, and explores notions of representation, the body, ecologies, and interspecies interrelations in the biotechnological field.
www.incubatorartlab.com
https://visualartsnews.ca/2021/07/life-in-silos/
https://www.covidcreative.ca/

Juan Carlos Saavedra, producer, stage director and actor, is the founder of Teatro Ciego MX, a company that promotes the labor inclusion of visually impaired people in the performing arts; General Director of Arte Ciego A.C., a non-profit association dedicated to the creation, research, promotion, development and dissemination of inclusive performing arts at national and international level; and Director of the Encuentro Otros Territorios, a space that promotes research, professionalization and dissemination of inclusive artistic proposals from different latitudes. He is currently working on the project "Methodology of training, creation and stage production based on blindness. Disarticulation of aesthetic constructs on the scene."���

Lee Rodney is Associate Professor of Media Art and Cultures in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor. She has been involved in borderlands-related research since 2008 when she held a Fulbright fellowship to comparatively study relationships between contiguous urban regions along the U.S.-Mexico border and the Canada-U.S. border. Her publication, Looking Beyond Borderlines: North America’s Frontier Imagination examines the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America as they have been represented and undermined through a variety of cultural practices (Routlege’s Advances in Visual Studies series, 2017). She has also organized community-based borderlands research through two SSHRC funded multi-year projects (2010-2013) The Border Bookmobile, and “Buoyant Cartographies: Alternative Mapping Practices on the Detroit River” (2018-2019).
http://frontierfiles.org/
http://www.buoyantcartographies.com/about

Marion Velasco es una artista transdisciplinar que trabaja con el cruce de la performance con el video, la fotografía, el arte sonoro, la música y la poesía. Tiene un doctorado en Artes Visuales del Instituto de Artes/UFRGS con una pasantía doctoral en Arte Sonoro y Performance de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la UPV/Valencia/ES (2019). Es especialista en Performance CNPq/UFRGS 1990) y licenciada en Artes Plásticas (1989). Ha participado en exposiciones colectivas e individuales, presenciales y virtuales, nacionales e internacionales (Brasil, España, Alemania, Canadá, Argentina, Uruguay). Tiene obras de video performance en la colección MACRS. Ha recibido los premios Intercâmbio MINC/BR 2013 (Lisboa/PT); LABPOA 2020 Lei Aldir Blanc en Artes Plásticas; Trayectoria de artistas destacados y publicaciones en línea/Estúdio 88- documentación de video performance en el XIV Prêmio Açorianos de Artes Plásticas, 2021. Ha sido editora, productora y presentadora de programas de radio FM y en línea. Fue responsable de la voz y letra de la banda de indierock Plastic Dream (1990-91), del dúo electrónico Adventure (1992-96) y concibió las bases electrónicas de IBG- Banda de Garotas Instantâneas (2017-21), entre otros proyectos sonoros. Marion reside en Porto Alegre, Brasil.

Nicole Cartier Barrera es investigadora, escritora y curadora. Originalmente de Bogotá, vive y trabaja en Toronto.
Sus intereses giran en torno a la cultura visual contemporánea en América Latina, en particular la relación entre el arte y la esfera pública, la superposición de prácticas digitales y presenciales, y la construcción de agencia política en contextos de intimidad y en la esfera privada.
Su práctica explora procesos editoriales experimentales y colaborativos dentro de un marco curatorial.
Su proyecto más reciente, la Guía para los afligidos y desobedientes se construye como un archivo de gestos de resistencia que se materializa en forma de publicación, página web y exposición itinerante.
Es graduada de Arte e Historia del Arte de la Universidad de los Andes y de la Maestría de Estudios Visuales, con énfasis en estudios Curatoriales, de la Universidad de Toronto.

Peter Morin es nieto de ancestros artistas de Tahltan. Morin estudió en la escuela de arte en 1997 completando su licenciatura en Emily Carr University en Vancouver en 2001 y luego su maestría en artes (MFA) en 2010 en University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Formado inicialmente en litografía, la práctica artística de Morin transita del grabado a la poesía, de la fabricación de tambores a los abalorios, de la confección de mantas (button blankets) a la instalación y al performance. A lo largo de su obra, Peter busca honrar a las matriarcas de la Nación Tahltan. Actualmente, Morin es profesor titular en la Facultad de Artes de la Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) en Toronto.

Shannon Cochrane is a Toronto based performance artist. Her performance work has been presented in festivals, theatres and at various events across Canada and the USA, and in over 20 countries across Europe, UK and Asia. She is also the Artistic Director of FADO Performance Art Centre (www.performanceart.ca/), a Toronto-based artist-run centre established in 1993 with the mission to support and present the work of contemporary performance artists from across Canada and around the world. As a platform, FADO exists nomadically, utilizing venues and sites that are appropriate to individual projects. Shannon is also a co-founding member of the Toronto Performance Art Collective. Established in 1997, TPAC is the producer of one of Canada’s oldest biennial performance art festivals, the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art (www.7a-11d.ca ).

Sofía Acosta Varea (Quito,1988) is a visual artist. Her work encompasses an interdisciplinary practice that ranges from installation, through intervention of photographs, archives, cartographies, and testimonies, to graphics and murals. Her work is an aesthetic-political commitment that, on the one hand, questions established gender narratives and, on the other hand, seeks post-extractivist art approaches, putting contemporary notions of territory in debate. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in different independent galleries, inside and outside Ecuador, curated (Ordinaria, Arte Actual FLACSO (2018) and worked as illustrator in multiple independent publications. Recently, together with Adrián Balseca, she created the project Mirador: Visiones sobre el extractivismo (Mirador: Visions on Extractivism, 2019), a book that investigates the different visual memories of peasant and Indigenous leaders who have been criminalized since the arrival of the Ecuador’s 6 mega-mining projects.
Links: www.lasuerte.art
IG @l_a_s_u_e_r_t_e

Stephen Lawson is a Montreal artist, activist, and educator that creates poetic transdisciplinary interventions within the fields of live art (music, theatre, cabaret), print, installation, and video. Since 2001, as one half of the collaborative art duo 2boys.tv, he has produced a wide repertoire of queer art works that have toured internationally. Stephen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Theatre & Performance Studies at York University and his research is centred on radical drag praxis throughout the Hemispheric Americas. He is the Co-Managing Editor of the research site Cabaret Commons and a frequent part-time instructor at Concordia University. www.2boys.tv
https://cabaretcommons.org/
https://theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca/

Trevor Schwellnus es un artista interdisciplinario y escenógrafo que diseña escenarios, iluminación y videos para obras de compañías y artistas independientes. Nació en tierra Algonquin no cedida. Nació en tierra Algonquin no cedida. Una de sus principales obsesiones es la intersección entre el diseño, la dramaturgia y la creación artística transcultural. Dirigió y diseñó Líneas divisorias, Lo que aprendí de una década de miedo, Nohayquiensepa (Nadie lo sabe) con Teatro Aluna.
Ha diseñado con decenas de compañías en más de cien espectáculos desde 1999, entre ellos: 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. y otros.
Rediseñó la estatuilla del Premio Dora de Toronto en 2019, tiene 6 Premios Dora (de 18 nominaciones) y fue preseleccionado para el Premio Siminovich 2015.

Warren Cariou is a writer, photographer and professor based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His work focuses on the environmental philosophies and oral traditions of Indigenous peoples in western Canada, especially in relation to his Métis heritage. He has published works of criticism, memoir, fiction, poetry and film, and his bitumen photographs have been exhibited and published widely. He has also edited numerous books of Indigenous literature and storytelling. He teaches in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba.
For more information visit www.warrencariou.com

Alina Peña Iguarán es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores y profesora investigadora del Departamento de Estudios Socioculturales en ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara. Es doctora por la Universidad de Boston en el Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos. Su proyecto de tesis del doctorado se enfocó en trabajar la relación entre escritura, autobiografía y guerra en el contexto de la construcción sociocultural del México postrevolucionario y de la representación de la figura del intelectual. Sus temas de interés son: estética y (bio)política; memoria y subjetividad en contextos de violencia, frontera y desaparición. Her current research project is entitled “Poéticas de las excedencias: discursos audiovisuales para habitar la frontera.

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Kim Sawchuk is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, where she holds a research chair in Mobile Media Studies. Trained in feminist cultural studies, since 2006 Dr. Sawchuk’s research has investigated aging, 'disability' and ICTs in the context of the transition to wireless, mobile, networked communications. She is committed to exploring research-creation to foment creative collaborations for social change. She is committed to working from a community-based perspective that includes looking at the structural and systemic barriers that perpetuate inequities and exclusion- and finding solutions from the ground up. Kim directs the ACT Lab at Concordia (Aging Communication and Technologies www.actproject.ca).

Alex de las Heras is a relational artist and engaged scholar. He is a Ph.D Candidate in Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University of Colombia and holds a MA in Fine Arts and Experimental Design from the University of Art and Industrial Design of Linz, Austria. His fields of research and creation deal with Participatory Action Research, Future Studies and Politics, with a focus on living heritage, happening and performance, time perception and immersive future scenarios. In 2021 he was visiting researcher at the Spanish National Research Council, CSIC; since 2022 he is Research Assistant with Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices, a SSHRC Partnership Project, co-leading the research-creation project ‘PAN’: A series of etnofictive microhistories ranging from memory storytelling to the representation of present community conflicts, and the projection of community based speculative futures through gesture, images, thought and oral expression. www.alexdelasheras.es

Beatriz Pizano (actriz/directora/dramaturga) es la fundadora y directora artística de Aluna Theatre, una compañía reconocida por su forma única de abordar la creación, su audaz mirada política y su experimentación con producciones multilingües. Ha recibido varios premios prestigiosos, incluido el Premio John Hirsch, la Beca Chalmers, el Premio K.M. Premio Hunter y numerosos premios y nominaciones a los Dora Awards. Es la primera actriz latinx en ganar un premio Toronto Critics y un premio Dora por su actuación en Las Bodas de Sangre. En 2019, fue nombrada una de las 10 canadienses hispanas más influyentes por TD. Le apasiona nutrir a la próxima generación de artistas creando con una visión transamericana.

Dan Pon manages the archives at grunt gallery where he works to preserve and activate material and non-material culture. He is interested in the practice of artists intervening in archives, liberatory community archives, and imaginative models at the intersection of visual arts and information science. He also works as a librarian at Langara College. His writing and work has been published by grunt gallery, VIVO Media Arts, Other Sights for Artists' Projects, UNIT/PITT Projects, and the BC Libraries Association. Dan holds an MLIS from the University of British Columbia.

https://archivesweek.ca/
https://grunt.ca/

Dot Tuer is a writer and cultural historian whose scholarly and creative work explores artistic practices of memorialization and visual storytelling in a hemispheric context. She also has a long-standing research interest in the history of Guaraní-Spanish transcultural practices in north-east Argentina and Paraguay. Tuer is the author of Mining the Media Archive (2005) and numerous museum catalogue, book anthology, and journal essays; her curatorial projects include Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2012-13). Since the 2000s, Tuer has divided her time between Corrientes, Argentina, and Toronto, Canada, where she is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at OCAD University. https://www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/alberto-gomez-and-dot-tuer.html https://ocad.academia.edu/DotTuer
https://www2.ocadu.ca/bio/dot-tuer

Guilherme E. Meyer es candidato a doctorado en el Departamento de Inglés de la Universidad de Nueva York y dirigente estudiantil en GSOC-UAW Local 2110. Sus principales áreas de interés son el teatro y la poesía de la década de 1960 en adelante (EE.UU y Brasil), el marxismo, el feminismo y el utopismo. Su investigación doctoral se centra en los modos de utopismo que han surgido en Brasil desde la década de 1960 y la continuidad de su relevancia para la praxis revolucionaria. Es becario de posgrado en humanidades públicas y artes del Zip Code Memory Project y asistente de investigación en Encuentros Hemisféricos.

Jesusa Rodríguez (México 1955) is a theatre creator whose work is characterized by humor and political parody. She has written, directed, and acted in endless political farces and revues. She has also directed adaptations of Shakespeare and Yourcenar, as well as Mozart operas and pieces by Mexican authors such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Rodríguez has also performed, created theatrical installations, organized workshops with Indigenous groups and actions for the protection of native corn. She is currently a Senator of the Republic. Her greatest achievement: accumulating discredit. https://jesusa.mx/��i

Juma Pariri busca escuchar y aprender de los secretos de las plantas. Se mueve en la fricción entre las artes del cuerpo, una pedagogía indisciplinada y las luchas indígenas por la justicia medioambiental. Forma parte del movimiento social Retomada Kariri y de la Asociación Indígena Cariris de Poço Dantas-Umari. Mantiene activa la plataforma AGITPORN! – ¡POR NO a la desigualdad, por la decolonización social! para aprender de los ancestros indígenas sobre sexualidades, cocinas y plantíos antimonoculturales, y la plataforma audiovisual Unides Contra la Colonización: Muchos Ojos, Un Solo Corazón para la creación colectiva de diversas formas simbólicas de autorrepresentación de los pueblos originarios de Abya Yala. Juma fue artista-académix posdoctoral de Encuentros Hemisféricos en 2021-2022 y continua colaborando con el proyecto.

Lucas Liu is in their final year of the Specialized Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at York University.
Lucas also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Global Business and Digital Arts from the University of Waterloo, and their knowledge in web and app design inform their thesis work on how social media design impacts the well-being of emerging adults.

Mark Sussman is a theatre artist and scholar working on the animation of public space, material dramaturgies, and the integration of old and new technologies in live performance. A graduate of the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, he joined Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts in 2005. He is Professor in the Department of Theatre and advises graduate students in the PhD Humanities and Individualized interdisciplinary programs. In Summer, 2020, he was appointed Director of Concordia's Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture. Sussman is a founder and Co-Artistic Director of Great Small Works , an award-winning theatre collective in New York City. Since 1995, Great Small Works has been producing new theatre on a variety of scales, from miniature toy theatre pieces using two-dimensional cutouts and live montage, to giant parades, community processions, and circuses. The company produces variety evenings, international festivals, and community-based projects. In Montreal, he founded Café Concret , an occasional cabaret of experimental puppetry and object-based performance. With the Café Concret collective, he organized Moving Parts: Articulated Bodies and Objects in Performance , a performance residency, interdisciplinary symposium, and book project exploring vocabularies shared across the fields of puppetry and dance. Sussman is a proud Co-Investigator of Hemispheric Encounters, and serves on the Artistic Committee of Casteliers and the Board of Directors of Montreal's Studio 303.

Patricia is a PhD student in the Communications Department at Concordia University. She is investigating Brazilian women artists who engaged in art-making and artistic practices under censorship and conservative societal values during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985). Patricia employs the oral history methodology, integrating a feminist and decolonial perspective, to uncover women’s life experiences and their contributions to Brazil’s 1960s-1970s avant-garde art movement. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of São Paulo (MAC-USP), focusing on Teresinha Soares and Wanda Pimentel's artworks and examining how specific art exhibitions supported the circulation of women’s art in the 1960s-70s under Brazil’s dictatorship.

Pilar Riaño-Alcalá is a professor at the Social Justice Institute. She is an anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar. Her research interests are on historical memory and the lived experience of violence; the afterlives of political violence, the ethnography of living traces of memory and social repair; oralities and sound memory and social practice art. Pilar also has an interest in exploring the politics of knowledge and epistemic justice through the use of emplaced and creative research methodologies that draw on other knowledges and that centrally locate action and change in knowledge production. Pilar is the author of “Dwellers of Memory. Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia” and “Poniendo Tierra de por medio. Migracion forzada de colombianos en Colombia, Ecuador y Canadá and is currently working on the book manuscript, “In the Interstices of War and Peace: Memory and Social Repair in Colombia.” Her articles have appeared in Memory Studies, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Anthropology Quarterly, Revista Colombiana de Antropología, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Estudios Politicos among others. She is currently working on three projects, Transformative Memory: An International Network (with Erin Baines, UBC); Exhumations and burial in Colombia (with the Committee of Victims of the Middle Atrato River) and Sacred Responsibilities to Water. Indigenous Knowledge Exchanges, Canada-Colombia (with Aimée Craft, University of Ottawa).

Shauna Janssen is Assistant Professor of Performance Creation in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University, where she holds a Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism (2018-2023). Her teaching, research and creative practice are consonant with urban humanities, critical, interdisciplinary, and collaborative practices, and performative explorations with and within contested sites of the urban realm. Current research-creation projects include Feminist Performance Creation & the City (SSHRC PEG) and Situating Critical Performance Design in the City (SSHRC IDG).
www.performativeurbanism.com
www.shaunajanssen.ca

Sol Pérez Jiménez has a doctorate in Environmental Geography from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In the past decade she has worked as an activist, academic and independent consultant with national and international civil society organizations, on issues such as environmental and social impact of mining, environmental conflicts and alternatives to extractivism. Currently, since 2021, she is a researcher in the Land and Territory Program of Fundar Center for Analysis and Research.
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Sophia Zhou is a fourth year in her Honours Bachelor of Design program at York University.
Está interesada en diseño web y UX/UI.
Es una persona curiosa que busca formas de conectarse con la comunidad local y adquirir nuevos conocimientos.
Ella sus experiencias para crear diseños más robustos y significativos.

Tamara Toledo es una curadora, artista, escritora y candidata a doctorado en la Universidad de York, nacida en Chile y radicada en Toronto.
Toledo es co-fundadora del Allende Arts Festival y de Latin American Canadian Art Projects.
Durante más de una década, ha curado numerosas exposiciones que ofrecen espacios y oportunidades a artistas de la diáspora latinoamericana.
Diseñó y es curadora de las charlas Latin American Speakers Series, donde invita a reconocidos curadores y artistas contemporáneos a Toronto para discutir sobre dinámicas transculturales en el arte contemporáneo.
Toledo ha presentado su trabajo en varias conferencias en Montreal, Nueva York, Vancouver, Chicago, Ciudad de México y Toronto.
Sus escritos han sido publicados en ARM Journal, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Art y, más recientemente, en Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Journal de la Universidad de California.
Toledo es actualmente la Directora/Curadora de Sur Gallery, el único espacio dedicado al arte latinoamericano contemporáneo en Canadá.

Véro Leduc is an artist, engaged scholar, and a professor in Communication Studies at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where she teaches in cultural action program as well as in the program Disability and Deafhood: Rights and Citizenship, which she co-founded. First Deaf university professor in Quebec, and Canada Research Chair in Cultural Citizenship of Deaf People and Cultural Equity Practices, her recent investigations focuses on Deaf and disability arts practices in Canada and Deaf music. In 2020, she received the Governor General's Medal of Canada for her commendable work in breaking down barriers to social exclusion and enhancing accessibility to university and culture for people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
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/