Chapter 1: CUERPO
Performed by CUERPO collective body: Stephanie Bueno, Chipo Chipaziwa, Sai Di, Jelena Markovic, Guadalupe Martinez, Angelica Poversky, and Dalia Shalabi.
Sound by Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora
Narration by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora
Cinematography and Editing by Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao
Text excerpts from Clarice Lispector's book Agua Viva, 1973.
Stephanie Bueno is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up between Dominican Republic and Atlanta before moving to Vancouver, BC, where she currently resides, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree as a Visual Arts major. Bueno’s artistic practice concerns itself with the textures of living in the world, using the artist’s own living experiences and body as a field of research, dissecting subjective complexities of identity while exploring the tensions between the materiality of the body as an art-object, and the objectified/commodified body.
Chipo Chipaziwa was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. SInce then she's lived in Switzerland, Zimbabwe, New York City and currently resides in Vancouver. As a performance artist she works independently and collaboratively addressing the dual nature of identity as subject and object, notions of fluidity and the performativity of the African (female) body.
Sai Di is a Vancouver based artist. She has a bachelor degree in Computer Science, and is currently completing her BFA at UBC. Her interdisciplinary practice is mainly concerned with re-imaging the “spaces”, through drawing, collage, performative gestures, and material experiments of the everyday objects. Her work engages counter or "other" narratives through allegorical and textural acts.
Jelena Markovic is a writer, performance artist, and PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her research and art practice focus on transformative experience, body memory and awareness, grief, and illness.
Website: https://markovicjelena.com
Angelica Poversky (they/them) is a queer non-binary Russian- Jewish poet, performer and media activist. As an educator and advocate for justice surrounding issues in media, queerness and transness, Angelica has performed and facilitated workshops across North America.. https://angelicapoversky.ca/
Dalia Shalabi is a Morocco-Palestinian performance artist, a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work focuses on the lasting impact of colonization. She uses mixed media to process the intersectional nature of her identity. With a focus on healing, she approaches topics of armed conflict, unspoken intergenerational trauma and oral history.
Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora is an artist, and curator on the last semester of her Bachelors in Art History. Her interests revolve around embodied methodologies as sites of activism and activation within theory, art and curatorial praxis. She is currently working part-time as a studio assistant to Tom Burrows and is based between Hornby island and Vancouver. IG: @illy_onthe_left
Chapter 1 of Reflections on a window glass was conceived and realized on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) people.
Performed by CUERPO collective body: Stephanie Bueno, Chipo Chipaziwa, Sai Di, Jelena Markovic, Guadalupe Martinez, Angelica Poversky, and Dalia Shalabi.
Sound by Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora
Narration by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora
Cinematography and Editing by Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao
Text excerpts from Clarice Lispector's book Agua Viva, 1973.
Stephanie Bueno is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up between Dominican Republic and Atlanta before moving to Vancouver, BC, where she currently resides, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree as a Visual Arts major. Bueno’s artistic practice concerns itself with the textures of living in the world, using the artist’s own living experiences and body as a field of research, dissecting subjective complexities of identity while exploring the tensions between the materiality of the body as an art-object, and the objectified/commodified body.
Chipo Chipaziwa was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. SInce then she's lived in Switzerland, Zimbabwe, New York City and currently resides in Vancouver. As a performance artist she works independently and collaboratively addressing the dual nature of identity as subject and object, notions of fluidity and the performativity of the African (female) body.
Sai Di is a Vancouver based artist. She has a bachelor degree in Computer Science, and is currently completing her BFA at UBC. Her interdisciplinary practice is mainly concerned with re-imaging the “spaces”, through drawing, collage, performative gestures, and material experiments of the everyday objects. Her work engages counter or "other" narratives through allegorical and textural acts.
Jelena Markovic is a writer, performance artist, and PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her research and art practice focus on transformative experience, body memory and awareness, grief, and illness.
Website: https://markovicjelena.com
Angelica Poversky (they/them) is a queer non-binary Russian- Jewish poet, performer and media activist. As an educator and advocate for justice surrounding issues in media, queerness and transness, Angelica has performed and facilitated workshops across North America.. https://angelicapoversky.ca/
Dalia Shalabi is a Morocco-Palestinian performance artist, a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work focuses on the lasting impact of colonization. She uses mixed media to process the intersectional nature of her identity. With a focus on healing, she approaches topics of armed conflict, unspoken intergenerational trauma and oral history.
Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora is an artist, and curator on the last semester of her Bachelors in Art History. Her interests revolve around embodied methodologies as sites of activism and activation within theory, art and curatorial praxis. She is currently working part-time as a studio assistant to Tom Burrows and is based between Hornby island and Vancouver. IG: @illy_onthe_left
Chapter 1 of Reflections on a window glass was conceived and realized on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) people.
Practical Tool:
These are a series of practical tools offered by each of the participating artists. These exercises for embodiment, self and collective healing are simple yet radical to explore, practice, and share. All of these practices can be done alone in an intimate space with oneself, or with others as a way to find group strength and connection.