ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Northern Migration2022

ARCHIVES OF RESISTANCE

Archivo de la Memoria Trans / Archive of Trans Memory

Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Archive of Trans Memory (AMT) protects, builds and vindicates Trans memory in Argentina. Trans women activists, María Belén Correa and Claudia Pía Baudracco envisioned how they could bring together their fellow survivors and subsequently their memories and images. In 2012, Pía passed away just months before the Gender Identity Law became a reality in Argentina. While in exile, María Belén founded the AMT where she met with her fellow survivors who lived in different parts of the world. For two years, the AMT existed as a virtual space to share anecdotes, photos, testimonies, and letters from the community. In 2014, collaborator and visual artist, Cecilia Estalles, began the archiving process to compile, preserve and protect the memories of the Trans community in Argentina.

The Archive contains a collection of more than 15,000 documents. The items in the archive are from the early 20th century until the late 1990s. This is a rich collection that includes photographs, film, audio bytes, journals and official documents such as Identification cards, passports, letters, notes, police files, and magazine articles. The AMT's mission is to gather and rescue a collection of archives that outline the history of the Argentine trans community. The AMT’s policy is to document the lives of Trans women to support the fight against systemic Transfobia in society through educational training and activism for equal rights for Trans women in the workforce. In addition, the Archive is a cooperative space in which artists, activists, archivists, journalists, historians, curators, art critics, editors, conservators, researchers and teachers collaborate to create new projects in diverse media and languages.

Currently, its working team includes María Belén Correa, Cecilia Estalles, Carmen Ibarra, Cecilia Saurí, Magalí Muñiz, Carola Figueredo, Teté Vega, Luis Juárez, Julieta Gonzalez, Sonia Beatriz Torrese, Carolina Nastri, Guade Bongiovanni, Marina Cisneros, Katiana Villagra, Paola Guerrero.

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Catrileo+Carrión Community

Wallmapu / Chile · Kumeyaay Land / San Diego, USA

We are a two-spirit Mapuche (epupillan) community that develops research-creation artistic projects that are intimately linked to specific territories and communities. We have been working since 2015 from Wallmapu/Chile and now our community is located both in California/Kumayaay land and South America. This hemispheric experience gives us a privileged point of view to see social change, land disputes and colonization from a broad perspective. We have worked from art crossing our biographies with diverse materialities and contexts with whom we get involved. We use video, archives, writing and weaving as practices that are intertwined with our own life. As a two-spirit non-reproductive community we use our vital energy to connect with others (human and non-humans) to share reflections and concerns. We use our biographies and positionalities to depict indigenous life as an ever-changing, deeply rooted and critical practice, but also a transformative and creative force. We engage in a practice of occupation and re-structuring of the surface of the video/projection. We understand these surfaces as interfaces for decolonization, territorial imagination and re-connection with each other. We believe in a future where a queer BIPOC utopia is possible, and we are rehearsing this idea in our everyday artistic and political practice.

@catrileocarrionvimeo/catrileocarrionlinktr.ee/catrileocarrion

Jennifer Dysart

Canada

Jennifer Dysart is an archive enthusiast with a deep love of found footage and experimental filmmaking. Her film projects interrupt the colonial power of archives and represent a growing body of work that prioritizes a return home of archival materials to Indigenous communities. She was an Artist-In-Residence for Archive/Counter-Archive at Library and Archives Canada (2019) and showed Revisiting Keewatin (Biophilia Edit) as a large-scale installation projected on the outside of the Archives of Ontario building through the Art Gallery of York University for Nuit Blanche 2022. Her films Caribou in the Archive (2019), Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood (2014) and Moss Origins (2011) have screened around the world. She was born in Alberta, raised in BC, currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario and has Cree roots on her Dad's side from South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Canada. In 2014, Jennifer won the MFA thesis prize at York for her graduate work which includes Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood.

@jdysartfilm

Marton Robinson

Cost Rica · Canada · USA

Costa Rican artist Marton Robinson has an interdisciplinary background informed by his studies in both Physical Education and Art and Visual Communication. He completed an MFA at the University of Southern California. Robinson’s art, which is informed mainly by African-American traditions, challenges the conventional representations of black identities in art history, mainstream culture, and the official national narratives, especially those of Costa Rica. With an often ironic and rhetorical take on the constructs of racism, this practice endeavors to confront the hierarchies and conceptions inherited from colonialism in order to subvert the mindsets and prejudices ingrained in our social experience. Robinson’s work exposes the nuances present in the Afro-Latino experience, enriching the critical discourse of contemporary works of the African Diaspora.

Robinson has participated in exhibitions in spaces such as: The Getty Center, California; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Costa Rica; Vincent Price Art Museum, California; Fundación Ars TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica; Museo de Arte Costarricense, Costa Rica; New Wight Gallery, California; X Bienal Centroamericana, Costa Rica; Pacific Standard Time LA/LA; Aidekman Arts Center, Boston; Le Palais de Tokyo, France; Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway; Centro de la Imagen, México; ARTBO, Colombia; Prizm Art Fair; Mandeville Gallery, New York; Gallery GVCC, Casablanca; Museo Amparo, México; 21st Biennial Contemporary Art Sesc Videobrasil, Brazil.

martonrobinson.com@marton_robinson

soJin Chun

Tkaranto / Toronto, Canada

soJin Chun is a Toronto-based educator/artist/curator that explores the alternative dialogues that emerge in-between cultures and disciplines. With a focus on connecting with youth, community members, and artists, her work unpacks identities and narratives that exist outside of dominant representations. soJin's diverse art practice has been informed by her personal experience living in the Korean diaspora in Bolivia and Canada while recognizing her colonized subjectivity as an English, Spanish and Portuguese speaker. She aims to create spaces to present contemporary art that is socially engaged and relevant to everyday communities. Collaboration is an essential part of her process as she has worked extensively with under-represented communities in Canada and South America.

Through International artist residencies, soJin has developed a collaborative art practice working with local communities to resist stereotypes, gentrification and displacement. Chun has participated in international film festivals such as the Oberhausen International Film Festival (2020). She has exhibited Internationally in DIY art spaces, galleries and museums. In 2021, she participated in a group exhibition titled, Bop, Art & Labour at Alternative Artspace Ipo in Seoul, Korea. soJin’s video works are represented by GIV (Montreal), CFMDC (Toronto) and V-Tape (Toronto). Chun has a B.A. in Applied Arts from Ryerson University and a Masters in Communications and Culture from Ryerson/York Universities.

Rupali Morzaria

Tiohtià:ke / Montréal, Canada

Rupali is an ex-architect turned graphic designer who enjoys hand-coding websites and sometimes making IG filters for her friends. Her work is playful and iterative, extending from a research-based approach to image making that is always curious and often obsessive.

rupalimorzaria.com@shabana_asthma

Sibling Industries

Ohlone Land / Bay Area, USA

Sibling is a creative web development studio run by Megumi and Elina, who are siblings. They believe in treating the web as a public space that can enrich the community, like a library or park.

sibling.industries@sibling.industries

7th Generation Image-Makers

Tkaranto, Canada

7th Generation Image Makers is a dynamic, youth-led Aboriginal community arts program operating within Native Child and Family Services of Toronto.

Since 1995 we have provided quality and accessible art and media based programming in a culturally supportive and safe environment to Toronto-based youth and youth at-risk. We work to create opportunities for professional arts training including ongoing accessible and quality fine art instruction taught by professional contemporary Native artists, mentors, and Elders.

7thgenimagemakers.com

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

Canada

Established in 1967, CFMDC is a not-for-profit, non-commercial media arts distributor that specializes in independent, artist made work on film and video including works from historically underrepresented communities. We advocate for a holistic understanding of production, distribution and exhibition that prioritizes artist rights, accessibility and the creation of new audiences through education and critical thinking. We have one of the most important collections of artist-made moving image on film in Canada and have recently moved into a facility with a specially designed space for our 16mm, 35mm and (s)8mm collection.

Through a unique and successful national and international distribution service, CFMDC makes its collection available for preview, rental or sale for the purposes of research, exhibition, screening and broadcast as well as for institutional and private acquisition. We work with and distribute on multiple formats including; celluloid, video, digital, and DCP. Both physical media and online streaming.

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White Water Gallery

North Bay, Canada

History / Background: Founded in 1974 and incorporated in 1977, the White Water Gallery (WWG) was originally created to facilitate opportunities for local artists in need of professional development who were unable to find accommodating venues for their research and dissemination projects. This need combined with the dedication of many local artists founded an institution devoted to the support of artistic development prioritizing research, risk-taking and experimentatio10 in the arts. Today many of Canada’s most established and successful artists acknowledge the role WWG has played in advancing their careers.

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