Equipe

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.

Tracy Tidgwell trabalha nas dobras do processo, da conexão e do corpo. Tracy é co-editora de The Future is Fat, uma coleção de intervenções acadêmicas e artísticas que reimaginam a compreensão do tempo para permitir novas expressões da experiência gorda, criadora de Anywhere Near Us, uma coleção de performances de áudio de textos queer, membro do Fat Rose, uma incubadora de arte e ativismo para liberação de gordura, e Produtora e Gerente de Projetos de Encontros Hemisféricos: Desenvolvendo Práticas de Pesquisa-Criação Transfronteiriças na Escola de Artes, Mídia, Performance e Design da Universidade de York.

Alina Peña Iguarán é membro do Sistema Nacional de Pesquisadores e professora pesquisadora do Departamento de Estudos Socioculturais do ITESO, Universidade Jesuíta de Guadalajara. Ela obteve seu doutorado na Universidade de Boston no Departamento de Estudos Hispânicos. Sua tese de doutorado se concentrou na relação entre escrita, autobiografia e guerra no contexto da construção sociocultural do México pós-revolucionário e a representação da figura do intelectual. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem estética e (bio)política; memória e subjetividade em contextos de violência, fronteiras e desaparecimento. Seu projeto de pesquisa atual intitula-se “Poéticas de las excedencias: discursos audiovisuales para habitar la frontera”.

Amparo Marroquín Parducci é professora do Departamento de Comunicação e Cultura da Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) de El Salvador desde 1997. Foi professora visitante em universidades da Nicarágua, Equador, Argentina, Colômbia, entre outras. Faz parte da equipe coordenadora do grupo de pesquisa em Comunicação Política e Cidadania do CLACSO e pesquisadora do Centro Internacional de Estudos em Epistemologias de Fronteira e Economia Política da Cultura do Chile. Consultora de organizações internacionais como GIZ, PNUD, Ford Foundation e Friedrich Ebert Stiftung entre outras. Sua pesquisa tem se concentrado em revisar a forma como as identidades, culturas e narrativas nos meios de comunicação mudaram a partir do protagonismo dos processos migratórios, a conformação da memória e do patrimônio imaterial, e das formas como se nomeiam as violências, em particular aquelas que começaram na década de 1990.

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

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).

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).

Paolo Vignolo é professor associado do departamento de história da Universidade Nacional da Colômbia, Bogotá. Suas áreas de pesquisa e criação lidam com história pública, patrimônio cultural e estudos de memória com foco em artes vivas, performance e imaginários geográficos. É doutor em História pela EHESS (Escola de Estudos Avançados em Ciências Sociais) de Paris. Em 2012-13 foi pesquisador visitante do Centro de Estudos Latinoamericanos David Rockefeller (DRCLAS) da Universidade de Harvard e em 2023 será bolsista do Centro de Estudos Apocalípticos e pós-Apocalípticos Kate Hamburger Center (CAPAS) da Universidade de Heidelberg. É membro do Instituto Hemisférico de Performance e Política da Universidade de Nova York e da Rede de Memória Transformativa da Universidade de British Columbia, Vancouver.

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.

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

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

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.

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/

Beatriz Pizano (Ator/Diretor/Dramaturgo) é fundadora e Diretora Artística do Teatro Aluna, companhia reconhecida por sua abordagem única à criação, seu ousado trabalho político e sua experimentação com produções multilíngues. Ela recebeu vários prêmios de prestígio, incluindo o Prêmio John Hirsch, a Chalmers Fellowship, o K.M. Prêmio Hunter e vários prêmios e indicações Dora. Ela é a primeira atriz latina a ganhar o prêmio Toronto Critics e uma Dora por sua atuação em Blood Wedding. Em 2019, ela foi nomeada uma das 10 canadenses hispânicas mais influentes do TD. Ela é apaixonada por nutrir a próxima geração de artistas que criam com uma visão transamericana.

Carlota McAllister é professora associada da Faculdade de Mudanças Ambientais e Urbanas da Universidade York em Toronto, Canadá. Antropóloga política e histórica, ela estuda a formação da agência política e moral em situações de conflito ou crise em comunidades agrárias na Guatemala e no Chile, usando ferramentas teóricas extraídas da antropologia da religião, teoria ator-rede, estudos da performance, antropologia feminista, e ecologia política. Com Diane Nelson, ela co-editou War by Other Means: Aftermath in Postgenocide Guatemala (Duke UP, 2013), e sua monografia The Good Road: Conscience and Consciousness in a Post-Revolutionary Mayan Village in Guatemala está sendo publicada pela Duke University Press.

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 .

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/

Daniella Castillo Chen é estudante de graduação em Produção Cinematográfica BFA na Universidade de York. Em 2021, mudou-se do Panamá para Toronto, no Canadá, para seguir a carreira de cineasta. Desde tenra idade, ela é apaixonada por contar histórias e pelas diferentes maneiras como podemos usar a arte como veículo de mudança. Assim, começando a carreira de jovem romancista aos 13 anos, ela decidiu aprender e experimentar a narrativa visual em seus estudos pós-secundários. Nos últimos dois anos, Daniella conseguiu desenvolver suas habilidades em produção audiovisual e aprender com colegas talentosos de seu programa. Agora, ela se junta à equipe de Encontros Hemisféricos como coordenadora Web e Digital, entusiasmada por fazer parte de uma equipe tão criativa e diversificada de artistas e acadêmicos.

iana Taylor é Professora Universitária e Professora de Estudos da Performance e Espanhol na Universidade de Nova York. É autora premiada de vários livros, entre eles: Theatre of Crisis (1991), Disappearing Acts (1997), The Archive and the Repertoire (2003), Performance (2016), and ¡Presente! The Politics of Presence (2020), and co-editor of Holy Terrors (2003), Stages of Conflict (2008) and Lecturas avanzadas de Performance (2011), entre outros. Taylor foi a diretora fundadora do Instituto Hemisférico de Performance e Política de 1998 a 2020. Ela recebeu uma bolsa Guggenheim e vários outros prêmios importantes Em 2017, Taylor foi presidente da Modern Language Association. Em 2018, ela entrou para a Academia Americana de Artes e Ciências. Em 2021, recebeu o Prêmio Edwin Booth por “excelente contribuição para a comunidade teatral de Nova York e por promover a integração do teatro profissional e acadêmico”. Ela co-dirige o Zip Code Memory Project.

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

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/

Guilherme E. Meyer é doutorando no Departamento de Inglês da Universidade de Nova York e organizador de trabalho estudantil no GSOC-UAW Local 2110. Suas principais áreas de interesse são teatro e poesia da década de 1960 (EUA e Brasil), marxismo, feminismo e utopismo, e sua pesquisa de doutorado concentra-se em modos de utopismo que surgiram no Brasil desde a década de 1960 e sua relevância contínua para a práxis revolucionária. Ele é graduado em humanidades públicas e artes no Zip Code Memory Project e assistente de pesquisa na Hemispheric Encounters.

Jehan Roberson é uma escritora, artista e trabalhadora da memória queer que usa o texto como base para sua prática artística interdisciplinar. Nascido e criado em Memphis, TN, o trabalho de Jehan explora práticas textuais queer negras como locais de libertação, criação de lugares e intervenções de arquivo. Seus escritos foram publicados ou serão publicados em Criticism, Recess Art, Public Books, Apogee, ZORA, Women & Performance e Autostraddle, entre outros. Atualmente ela mora em Ithaca, Nova York, onde é estudante de doutorado no Departamento de Literaturas em Inglês da Universidade Cornell. Foto © Jay Bendett Rose.

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/

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/

Jimena Ortúzar é pós-doutoranda com Encontros Hemisféricos na Escola de Artes, Mídia, Performance e Design da Universidade de York. Ela recebeu seu doutorado do Centro de Estudos de Drama, Teatro e Performance e do Centro de Diáspora e Estudos Transnacionais da Universidade de Toronto. A sua investigação explora o trabalho e a migração através das lentes dos estudos da performance e do género e os seus escritos podem ser encontrados em revistas internacionais, bem como em coleções editadas sobre arte e ativismo, teatro contemporâneo e performance Latinx. Ela também contribui para Gatherings, um projeto sobre arquivamento e histórias orais de performance.

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."

Dr. Julie Nagam is an Associate Professor in the department of Art History at the University of Winnipeg. She is the inaugural Artistic Director for 2020 and 2022 for Nuit Blanche Toronto, the largest public exhibition in North America. Dr. Nagam's SSHRC research includes digital makerspaces + incubators, mentorship, digital media + design, international collaborations and place-based knowledge. Dr. Nagam is currently the Principal Director of the multi-million dollar Partnership and Development Grant The Space Between Us: Co(lab)orations within Indigenous, Circumpolar and Pacific Places Through Digital Media and Design (2021–2028). She is a collective member of GLAM, which works on curatorial activism, Indigenous methodologies, public art, digital technologies, and engagement with place. As a scholar and artist she is interested in revealing the ontology of land, which contains memory, knowledge and living histories. Her artistic work has been exhibited internationally, including in Brazil, France, New Zealand, and England, which includes solo and group exhibitions. Nagam’s scholarship, curatorial and artistic practice has been featured nationally and internationally. She was the Concordia University and Massey University (NZ) Scholar in Residence for 2018/19, and will be the Terra Foundation Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney (AUS) for 2022-23. Dr. Nagam is the Director of Aabijijiwan New Media Lab and Co-Director of Kishaadigeh Collaborative Research Centre in Winnipeg, Canada.
www.julienagam.ca/
www.thespacebetweenus.ca
aabijijiwanmedialab.ca/
glamcollective.ca/

Juma Pariri busca ouvir e aprender com os segredos das plantas. Movem-se no atrito entre as artes do corpo, a pedagogia indisciplinada e a luta indígena pela justiça ambiental. Eles fazem parte dos movimentos sociais Retomada Kariri e da Associação Indígena Cariri do Poço Dantas-Umari. Entre outras, ativam a plataforma AGITPORN! – POR NO a la desigualdad, pela descolonização social!, para aprender com os ancestrais indígenas sobre sexualidades, culinárias e culturas antimonoculturais, e o trampolim audiovisual Unidos contra a colonização: muitos olhos, apenas um coração para a criação coletiva de outras formas simbólicas de identidade -representação do povo das primeiras nações de Abya Yala. Juma foi bolsista-artista de pós-doutorado dos Encontros Hemisféricos em 2021-2022 e continua colaborando com o projeto.

Kimberly Skye Richards é uma estudiosa colonizadora cuja escrita, ensino, ativismo e trabalho artístico envolvem a performance como um veículo para resistir ao extrativismo e inspirar uma transição energética justa. Recentemente, ela coeditou uma edição da Canadian Theatre Review sobre “Extractivism and Performance” (abril de 2020). Ela também publicou no TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times e An Ecotopian Lexicon: Loanwords to Live With. Kim atualmente leciona na Escola de Jornalismo, Redação e Mídia da Universidade da Colúmbia Britânica. Ela é membro do Círculo Missionário da SCALE- Liderança Setorial em Artes Climáticas para a Emergência.

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

Lucas Liu está no último ano do Bacharelado em Psicologia com Honra Especializada na Universidade de York. Lucas também é bacharel em Negócios Globais e Artes Digitais pela Universidade de Waterloo, e seu conhecimento em design de web e aplicativos informa seu trabalho de tese sobre como o design de mídia social impacta o bem-estar de adultos emergentes.

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

Marion Velasco é uma artista transdisciplinar por trabalhar com o cruzamento da performance com vídeo, fotografia, arte sonora, música e poesia. É doutora em Artes Visuais pelo Instituto de Artes/UFRGS com programa de doutorado dividido em Arte Sonora e Performance pela Facultad de Bellas Artes da UPV/Valência/ES (2019). Especialista em Performance (CNPq/UFRGS 1990) e graduada em Artes Plásticas (1989). Participou de exposições coletivas e individuais, nacionais e internacionais (Brasil, Espanha, Alemanha, Canadá, Argentina, Uruguai). Tem trabalhos de videoperformance na coleção MACRS e recebeu os prémios: Intercâmbio MINC/BR 2013 (Lisboa/PT); LABPOA 2020_Aldir Blanc Direito/Artes Visuais; Trajetória do Artista Destaque e Publicação Online/Estúdio 88-documentação de videoperformances no XIV Açorianos de Artes Plásticas, 2021. Editou, produziu e apresentou programas de FMrádio e webradio e foi responsável pela voz e letras da banda de indierock Plastic Dream (1990-91), da dupla eletrônica Adventure (1992-96), pela criação e bases eletrônicas da IBG_Banda de Garotas Instantâneas (2017-21). Marion mora em Porto Alegre, Brasil.

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.

Natalie Álvarez é professora de Estudos de Teatro e Performance na Escola de Performance e Reitora Associada de Atividades Acadêmicas, de Pesquisa e Criativas na Faculdade de Comunicação e Design da Universidade Metropolitana de Toronto em Toronto, Ontário, Canadá. Ela é autora, coeditora e editora de quatro livros premiados: Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, War, Performance (U of Michigan Press, 2018), Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), Essays on Latina/o Canadian Theatre e Fronteras Vivientes: Eight Latina/o Canadian Plays (Playwrights Canada Press, 2013). Seu livro mais recente, Theatre & War, está atualmente no prelo com a Bloomsbury. Seu trabalho sobre performance imersiva na esfera pública e performance ativista contemporânea nas Américas foi amplamente publicado em revistas internacionais e coleções de ensaios.

Nicole Cartier Barrera é pesquisadora, escritora e curadora de Bogotá, residente em Toronto. Seus interesses giram em torno da cultura visual contemporânea na América Latina, em particular a relação entre arte e movimentos sociopolíticos, a sobreposição de práticas digitais e presenciais e a construção de agência política em contextos de intimidade e da esfera privada. A sua prática explora processos editoriais experimentais e colaborativos dentro de uma estrutura curatorial. Seu projeto mais recente, Um Guia para Aflitos e Desafiadores, é um arquivo de gestos de resistência e existe como publicação, site e exposição itinerante. Ela possui bacharelado duplo em Artes e História da Arte pela Universidade de Los Andes e mestrado em Estudos Visuais em Estudos Curatoriais pela Universidade de Toronto.

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

Peter Morin é neto de artistas ancestrais de Tahltan. Morin começou a escola de arte em 1997, concluindo seu BFA na Universidade Emily Carr em Vancouver em 2001 e seu MFA em 2010 na Universidade de British Columbia, Okanagan. Inicialmente treinado em litografia, a prática artística de Morin passa por gravura, poesia, fabricação de tambores, trabalho com miçangas, fabricação de cobertores de botões, instalação e arte performática. Ao longo de sua exposição e fazendo história, Peter se concentra em homenagear as matriarcas da Nação Tahltan. Morin atualmente ocupa um cargo efetivo na Faculdade de Artes da Ontario College of Art and Design University em Toronto.

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).

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 .

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 ).

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

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

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

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.
AChttps://fundar.org.mx/

Sophia Zhou está no quarto ano do programa de Bacharelado em Design na Universidade de York. Ela está interessada em web design e UX/UI. Um indivíduo curioso em busca de maneiras de se conectar com a comunidade local e adquirir novos conhecimentos. Ela usa suas experiências para criar designs mais fortes e significativos.

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

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/

Tamara Toledo é curadora, artista, escritora e doutoranda na Universidade de York, nascida no Chile e radicada em Toronto. Toledo é cofundador do Allende Arts Festival e do Latin American Canadian Art Projects. Por mais de uma década, ela foi curadora de inúmeras exposições que oferecem espaços e oportunidades para artistas da diáspora latino-americana apresentarem seus trabalhos. Ela projetou e é curadora da Latin American Speakers Series, que convida artistas e curadores contemporâneos de renome internacional a Toronto para articular e discutir questões de dinâmica transcultural na arte contemporânea. Toledo apresentou seu trabalho em diversas conferências em Montreal, Nova York, Vancouver, Chicago, Cidade do México e Toronto. Seus escritos foram publicados no ARM Journal, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Art e, mais recentemente, no Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Journal da Universidade da Califórnia. Toledo é atualmente Diretor/Curador da Sur Gallery, único espaço dedicado à arte contemporânea latino-americana no Canadá.

Tatiane Reis está sempre buscando conhecimento teórico e experiência prática para lutar por justiça social, especialmente no Sul Global. Sua experiência como professora de história no Brasil foi uma das possibilidades que ela encontrou para compartilhar conhecimento e fomentar ações voltadas para a comunidade. Como doutoranda em estudos de gênero, feministas e mulheres na Universidade de York, negra e brasileira, ela se engaja em tornar contribuições intelectuais e artísticas de mulheres racializadas visíveis para além dos ambientes acadêmicos. Para sua tese, ela está investigando os impactos das atividades de mineração no trabalho remunerado e não remunerado das mulheres na África Austral. Desde 2022, Tatiane apoia diferentes atividades dos Encontros Hemisféricos principalmente com interpretações e traduções.

Trevor Schwellnus é um artista interdisciplinar e cenógrafo que projeta cenários, luzes e vídeos para performances com artistas e companhias independentes. Ele nasceu em terras algonquinas não cedidas. Uma de suas principais obsessões é a interseção de design, dramaturgia e criação de arte transcultural. Ele dirigiu e projetou Dividing Lines, What I learned from a decade of fear, Nohayquiensepa (No one knows) com Aluna Theatre.
Ele projetou com dezenas de companhias em mais de cem shows desde 1999, incluindo: 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 e outros.
Ele redesenhou a estatueta do Prêmio Dora de Toronto em 2019, tem 6 prêmios Dora (de 18 indicações) e foi selecionado para o Prêmio Siminovich de 2015.

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/

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

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