BIO

 

*****  <<<  The world is in convulsion, and so are we  >>>  *****

 

I am a queer Latinx-Canadian multimedia artist + sound performer, currently living in the land of the Coast Salish peoples – Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam. 

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Here, I research intersections between new media, performance, and environmental hauntology, speculative environmental composition, and performance mediated with/through technology. In colonially-called Vancouver, I organize Durations, an independent sound art + video art festival that offers an open stage for emerging artists exploring in the fields of new media > sound / video art > live performance.

 

Academically, I have a Master’s degree in Visual Arts - Contemporary Artistic Processes, researching anti-colonial counterattacks through contemporary art. I also have two graduate degrees in: Contemporary Literature (2018) + Semiotics (2011).

 

Currently, I research New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University.   

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Recently artistic projects include partnerships with: City of Vancouver, Creative Spark Vancouver, BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Emily Carr University, SUM Gallery, James Black Gallery, Massy Arts Gallery, What Lab, Lobe Studio, Vancouver International Film Festival, The Only Animal Theatre, and the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology.

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Recent artistic achievements include: curator + organizer of Durations Video + Sound Art festival at Emily Carr University (2024-2025); SUM Gallery’s AiR residency in sound performance + new media (2024); What Lab’s July Project residency in sound performance (2024); and mentor artist of a multimedia arts + decolonial theory research project through the Canada Council for the Arts (2023-2024).

 

Through my work as a curator + arts coordinator at Indigenous-led gallery Massy Arts (Vancouver’s Chinatown), between 2021-2024 I organized over 20 exhibitions and 80 cultural events, such as workshops, poetry reading events, book launches, public lectures, and artist talks.
 

*Intro by Brazilian theorist Suely Rolnik (Spheres of Insurrection / 2017).

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*Text last updated in December 2024