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Community & Transmedia Archives for Just, Anti-Racist and Feminist Futures An Artist Talk by Dr. Emilia Yang

Date
March 21, 2024
Cost
Free
Location
115 McCaul St, Level 3 (Third Floor) - Toronto
Artist with black and whit photo and event info

The Welcoming Committee 2024 presents

Community & Transmedia Archives for Just, Anti-Racist and Feminist Futures

An Artist Talk by Dr. Emilia Yang

Presented by OCAD University’s Faculty of Art, Faculty of Design & Faculty of Art & Science

 

The Welcoming Committee is a multi-disciplinary transmedia art initiative at OCAD University. This is a pilot program aimed at creating a platform for exchanging ideas on anti-racist and anti-oppressive methodologies and modes of collaboration with university collectives in Canada and the United States. In collaboration with Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, we are happy to announce this artist talk by Assistant Professor, Dr. Emilia Yang (Nicaragua/USA).

 

Dr. Emilia Yang is a Central American artist, memory organizer, and researcher. Her art practice utilizes expanded forms of digital media (XR, transmedia, web, interactive, films, archives, performance, games and public interventions) for the creation of community-based feminist, anti-racist, and transformative justice projects.

 

Her practice-based research explores the role of memory, violence, emotions, performance, and participation in the political imagination. She serves as the Director of “AMA y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity,” a conceptual, transmedial and community memory museum that explores participatory forms of art and design for remembering and demanding justice for the victims of state violence in her home country Nicaragua.

 

Join us for this artist talk with Dr. Yang, in which she will share her practice as a memory keeper to acknowledge and remember the political resistance of communities in Nicaragua and Central America.

 

This event is supported in part by an OCAD University SSHRC Explore and Exchange Research Seed Grant.
Events co-sponsors: Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, Sur Gallery  
Co-programmers: soJin Chun, Marton Robinson, Fidelia Lam

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