María José’s work is rooted in the musical traditions of Colombia’s Caribbean coast, where drums, gaitas, maracas, voices, and memory intertwine Afro-descendant and Indigenous legacies. Through rhythms such as cumbia, mapalé, bullerengue, vallenato, and porro, these traditions carry histories of celebration, resilience, and collective memory while continually evolving through new forms of creation and [...]
Juliana Borrero is a translator, writer, and performer. She is the translator of Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, and Dylan Thomas for Panamericana Editorial, as well as the book of erotic poetry Aureole by Carole Maso, published by Cajón de sastre, and the recipient of a grant from the Banff International Literary Translation Center, [...]
Ryan Ferko is best known as part of an unnamed media collective that also features Parastoo and Faraz Anoushahpour. Their heady meta-docs take aim at official and unofficial memories, perception and empire. But Ryan also has a private practice, unglimpsed even in the largest corporate search engines or the slippery slopes of so-called social media. [...]
T his event is sponsored by the Musagetes Foundation. https://musagetes.ca Curated by Elwood Jimmy Miguel Hilari (1985) is a Bolivian filmmaker of Aymara and German descent. His practice is concerned with memory, migration and urbanization processes. His films include After a fire(25’, 2023), Cerro Saturno (13’, 2022), Compañía (60’, 2019), [...]
IInti Pujol, a multidisciplinary artist from Argentina, engages in experimental art across a variety of media, including objects, performances, etchings, paintings, and video. Her recent work prominently features the performative power of sound, examining issues of territorial and bodily conflict within a neoliberal capitalist context and exploring diverse forms of resistance and poetic justice. [...]
Martín Rodríguez es un artista de la transmisión y el sonido cuyo trabajo surge de su crianza chicanx a lo largo de la frontera entre Arizona y México. Rodríguez emplea la performance, la intervención y la instalación como proceso para descifrar historias sonoras e identidades entrelazadas. Rodríguez aborda su trabajo desde el concepto chicanx [...]
Keith Lock, the first Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, returns with a new movie, Relics of Love and War (40 minutes), a family thriller that was kept under wraps for decades, until the Official Secrets Act allowed these true stories to be told. Using a suite of stunning 35mm photographs, Lock brings to [...]
Vanguardia Dance Projects (VDP), is a collective focused on creating, presenting, promoting, and supporting works of dance artists with Latin American and indigenous backgrounds living in Canada. Vanguardia promotes an ongoing exchange and collaboration with local and international dance organizations and artists. We are interested in the dissemination of contemporary [...]
RRibamar is a PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a research trainee at York University (YorkU). He studies gender and sexuality in Brazilian popular culture, with a focus on the Reisado tradition. He directed the film "Tica, a Rainha do Reisado" (2019) and "Swords and [...]
Helena Martin Franco, born in Colombia, has lived and worked in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal since 1998. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the blending of different artistic processes and the hybridization between traditional techniques and new technologies. Helena creates autofictions where she explores the permeability and boundaries between cultural, national and gender identities. Her artistic proposals participate in [...]
