Archiving Spatial Ecologies Residency

The Archiving Spatial Ecologies residency took place in Toronto in October 2022. We gathering artists, activists, leaders, and researchers from across Brazil and Canada to share research creation methods, experiment with approaches to archiving our practices, and to plan for future collaborations.

Participants included: Sérgio Andrade (LabCrítica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Tais Almeida and Pablo Carvalho (Cavalcanti é Preto), Ruth Toralba (onucleo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro & Aldeia Maracanã ), Yara Costa (Universidade do Estado do Amazonas), Cacique Luiz Laureano (Mestre Hohodene, Baniwa), Juma Pariri (HEN Postdoctoral Fellow, Artist/Scholar), Selena Couture (Hemispheric Encounters Ecologies Cluster Lead, University of Alberta) Laura Levin (Hemispheric Encounters Director, York University), Jess Dobkin (Artist & Hemispheric Encounters Performing Archives Lead), Tracy Tidgwell (Artist & Hemispheric Encounters Producer), Hurmat Ul Ain (Artist/Student, York University), and Shalon Webber-Heffernan (Artist/Student, York University).

Archiving Spatial Ecologies was co-presented by Hemispheric Encounters’ Performing Archives Stream and Ecologies Cluster along with LabCrítica at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Thank you to FADO Performance Art Centre for providing us space at The Commons @ 401 Richmond.