6 December - 12pm - 2:30pm
Free, registration required rsvp@sbcgallery.ca
Event in English
This workshop takes the siphonophorae, complex, polyphormic organisms that appear to be a single being but are actually composed of many individuals, each performing a specialized function, as a point of departure to reflect on collective bodies, critically exploring how we, as individuals, are always part of larger material, virtual, and social structures. But when are these relationships symbiotic and organic, and when are they shaped by unequal or violent power dynamics?
Participants will experiment with these themes through writing, drawing, and movement exercises using elastic textiles, co-creating movement scores that culminate in an ephemeral public intervention. Through the creation of this collective performance, participants will explore how to become a constellation of independent yet interrelated parts, each sensing, responding, and shifting through interaction with the others.
This event is part of the program Everything Still Resonates
Co-created by SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art with Colectiva Polea, the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Self-Determination, and the Laboratory for Decolonial Art and Research (LabARD), this program brings together Indigenous, diasporic, and settler voices proposing alternatives to socio-ecological crises and sharing tools for healing, transformation, and resistance. From November 27 to December 12, workshops, gatherings, and performances invite participants to imagine new ways of making together.
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COLLABORATORS
Laura Acosta is a Colombian-Canadian transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of textiles, performance, and immersive installation. Through the creation of hybrid materialities, mutable forms and transtemporal environments, she questions established relationships between body and space, exploring decolonial forms of embodiment. Collaboration is central to her practice, working with artists and researchers across disciplines to produce surreal narratives that merge physical and digital elements, reclaim liminality as a generative space, reimagine diasporic futures, and center collective transformation.
Acosta has presented her work across Canada and internationally through exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, and residencies. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University and an MFA from Concordia University, where she is currently completing her PhD in Humanities with a research-creation focus.
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