Artist Talk with Amanda Gutiérrez and Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda

Sur Gallery / LACAP

Artist talk with Amanda Gutiérrez and Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda on Zoom for the 'Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar' exhibition.

Join us October 19th at 7PM on Zoom as artists Amanda Gutiérrez and Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda discuss their work in the 'Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar' exhibition! The exhibition is co-curated by Sarah Shamash and Tamara ToledoFinancially supported by the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts.ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and is a media artist and cultural historian with a research focus on feminist media art, research-creation and Latin American art and its diasporas. She is Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University (SIAT) that occupies the unceded territories of the Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Kwantlen, Katzie, the Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛə̓ m), and the Qayqayt First Nations. As a media artist, she produces video installations, sculptures, digital projects, print media and live performances that investigate the body as a site of cultural, gendered and techno-scientific inscriptions. Aceves Sepúlveda is a member of art/mamas, a Vancouver-based collective of artist mothers and sono(soro)ridades, a group of feminist sound artists, activists, and scholars interested in investigating the affective and political dimensions of sound. She is also the Vancouver regional coordinator of TFAP (the Feminist Art Project) Rutgers University and is a member of CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts. Amanda Gutiérrez was born in Mexico City and is currently based in Montreal. Gutiérrez explores the experience of political listening and gender studies by bringing into focus soundwalking practices. Trained and graduated as a stage designer from The National School of Theater, Gutiérrez uses a range of digital media tools to investigate everyday life aural agencies and collective identities. Gutiérrez completed her MFA in Media and Performance Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Arts and Humanities at Concordia University in the Arts and Humanities Doctoral program. Gutiérrez has held numerous international art residencies such as FACT, Liverpool in the UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, Bolit Art Center in Spain, and her artwork has been exhibited internationally in venues such as The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Harvestworks in NYC, SBC Gallery, Undefined Radio in Montreal, Errant Bodies Studio Press in Berlin, among others.ABOUT THE GALLERY Sur Gallery is Toronto's first gallery space dedicated to the exhibition and critical engagement of contemporary Latin American Art and is a project of LACAP. For information contact:416-654-7787info@surgallery.cawww.surgallery.cawww.surgalleryvirtual.cawww.facebook.com/LACAPsurgalleryhttps://www.youtube.com/user/lacapcanada/videosGallery Hours:Wednesday to Friday 12 pm-6 pmSaturdays 11AM-5PMLocation: 100-39 Queens Quay East, TorontoSur Gallery acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts; Ontario Arts Council; Toronto Arts Council; The City of Toronto through section 37; and the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts. Sur Gallery also acknowledges its sponsors Ready2Post; See Through Web; and Hoffworks Productions; as well as its partner VIVO Media Art Centre and community partner aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival.

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