Participants

Conveners:

Alessandra Renzi explores the linkages and relays between media, art and activism through ethnographic studies and multimedia projects. She is co-creator, with Roberta Buiani, of Activism beyond the Interface: the Sandbox Project, an art project located at the intersection between face-to-face and interface. Alessandra is Assistant Professor in Emergent Media in the Department of Art + Design and in the Program in Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University. Her book Infrastructure Critical: Sacrifice at Toronto’s G8/G20 Summit, co-authored with Greg Elmer is a companion to the collaborative, open source documentary Preempting Dissent: Policing the Crisis.

Sophie Toupin‘s work focuses on the intersection between technology, feminism
and activism through research and projects. She collaborates with FemHack a feminist hackerspace in Montreal and the TransHackFeminist convergence in Calafou, Spain, among others. Sophie works for Media@McGill, a hub for research and scholarship on media, technology and culture at McGill University in Montreal. Her current research focuses on feminist peer production and, feminist, queer and trans hacker culture.

Participants:

duskin drum was made by and by the forest and the sea and the people; duskin is part of the making. born on a small forested island in the salish sea, duskin’s work circulates around and through practices of ecological tuning and detuning. duskin drum is thinking with politics of anthropogenic climate changed, divergent cosmologies, itinerancy, settler subjectivities, and social transformation through collective practices with non-humans and more-than-humans. his current research focuses on ecological aesthetics, environmental justice and petroleum space/time. the journal of aesthetics and protest recently published his article “melt with us” co-authored by sarah lewison. duskin drum studies in the performance studies doctorate program at the university of california, davis.

Fabio Salvatti is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, in the Program of Performing Arts. His research interests are focused on political activism and its relationship with theatricality. His investigation on activist pranks explores the political potential embedded in everyday life, as well as the symbolic constructions that could ignite political participation. Fabio Salvatti is also a theater director, and has worked mainly with two different theater companies: ‘Kiwi Companhia de Teatro’ and ‘Cia EmCômodo Teatral.’ With them, he has presented performances in Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Recife, Florianópolis, among other cities.

Flaviana Benjamin graduada em Artes Cênicas com ênfase em direção teatral pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. Pesquisa o corpo como ferramenta de criação e suas variáveis. É dançarina, atriz, diretora, arte educadora, produtora e performer. Na área de produção coordenou a V Semana de Artes, Abraço, trabalhou no Festival de Inverno de Ouro Preto e Mariana- 2008 e 2009, Fórum das Letras e Mix Brasil. Dirigiu os espetáculos Medéia, Simpatias de Bastianas, Beijo no Asfalto, Horlá dentre outros. Como atriz trabalhou com Jair Assumpção, Valdir Rivabem, Cacá Carvalho, Nívio Diegues, Paulo Pompeia, Nando Bolognesi, Paulo Farias dentre outros.
Foi arte educadora de dança e teatro da APAE , trabalhou no Projeto cidadão clown pela Secretária de Cultura de São Paulo, “ Alegria: rir é o melhor remédio” financiado pela Proex e Projeto “Cia da Gente” financiado pela Fundação Gorceix. Ministrou oficinas de teatro pelo projeto Teatro na Comunidade pela Secretária da Educação de Guarulhos/SP , oficinas de arte e teatro pelo projeto Ação Educa financiado pela Porto Seguro, ministrou oficinas de teatro, dança e confecção de máscaras expressivas pela UNG além de outras. Teve dois trabalhos apresentados pela Prague Quadrennial- Republica Tcheca em 2011 ambos usando a linguagem performática “Habitar é deixar vestígios” Schools selection and Scenofest Street Stories. Participou do workshop Fluidity: Torsten Blume (Germany),Yun-Ju Chen (Taiwan) Scenofest and the Prague Quadrennial. E integrante do Acts – Laboratory for Performance Practices em Oslo, Noruega. Concebeu a maquiagem e figurino dos espetáculos “A Casa”, elogiada por Rubem Alves como a melhor representação de seu trabalho, “Fragmentos 11×16” direção Paula Gotelipe, “Fragmentos Chico”, “Os Mistérios de uma Alvorada Além-Maria” e “Leituras entre o céu e a terra”. Participou do NUTAAN 2012 com coordenação de Maura Baiocchi e Wolfgang Pannek com a ecoperformance “ABACÁ”. Realizou em 2012 estudos com Cilô Lacava, o que resultou um fragmento de percepções vetoriais que recebeu o título de “Direções”.

Guillaume Girard est né à Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, mais il se considère citoyen des Amériques. Diplômé en génie informatique, il fait brièvement carrière dans les jeux vidéo avant de se tourner vers le médium cinématographique. En 2007, il entame un périple à vélo de plus de 4000 kilomètres en Amérique du Sud, un voyage qui le sensibilisera aux luttes paysannes et l’amènera à réaliser son premier long métrage documentaire, intitulé « Deux roues sur terre ». Alors qu’il complète ses études en journalisme, il continue d’élargir ses horizons, tant au niveau de la pratique de son art (allant du reportage audiovisuel au court-métrage de fiction) que de sa perception du monde, tel qu’en témoignent ses multiples séjours de création à l’étranger ainsi que son immersion dans l’univers des Premières Nations. Passionné et autodidacte, Guillaume tente d’allier l’expression de son imaginaire et de sa créativité à une démarche documentaire teintée d’un esprit d’entraide et de solidarité. Cherchant, sur son parcours, à combattre les injustices sociales tout en sensibilisant ses concitoyens aux nombreux défis et enjeux auxquels est confronté l’humain d’aujourd’hui, dans son immense village global.

María Gabriela Lugones: mestre y doctora en Antropología Social (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil). Profesora de Antropología de la Política e Historia de la Cultura en la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Trabajo en investigaciones sobre performances estatales de administración y gestión de poblaciones consagradas legal y/o políticamente como merecedoras de Protección Integral. Dirijo pesquisas acerca de performances festivas, formas de sociabilidad nocturna y subjetividades juveniles en la Córdoba de la década de 1980 hasta el presente. Edito Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad – Revista Latinoamericana (Centro Latinoamericano de Sexualidad y Derechos Humanos CLAM /Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro).

Tom Astley is a writer and ethnomusicologist from the North-East of England. He is currently completing an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded PhD which focuses on constructions and reflections of Cuban identity in the work of Cuban punk band Porno Para Ricardo. Parts of this research are forthcoming in Popular Music and The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. He has conducted two longer research trips to Cuba, as well as several shorter visits, interviewing musicians and creative practitioners within Cuba. These interviews formed the basis of my first book ‘Outside the Revolution; Everything’, published with Zero Books in 2012.