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FromOctober 4 to 7, join us for the first edition of theLatin American Media Arts Symposium(LAMAS) in Toronto.Over the course of 4 days, we will gather with a group of  artists, filmmakers, critics, and academics engaging with Latin American artistic production in Canada. We will be having panel discussions,  conversations, live performances, and special collaborations with local arts organizations. Some of the questions we will be tackling are: how are spaces and institutions supporting the visibility of Latin American media arts and film in Canada? What challenges and opportunities arise from translations and mistranslations? How are identities and bodies transformed as a new notion of home is built? How can we move forward through local and transnational collaboration?All panels will be open to the public, and entrance will be free! Pelase register in advance.

Latin American Media Arts Symposium 2023

With speakers Camila Salcedo, Jorge Ayala-Isaza, and Kevin Coleman.
Moderated by Patricio Dávila.

Friends House

Are archives the detritus of historical processes? Are they evidence of official narratives or, contrarily, their liabilities? Who chooses which material traces linger in time, where they are preserved, and with whom they are shared? Camila Salcedo’s interdisciplinary practice, in particular her work with the Textile Museum and the Gardiner Museum’s collections, approaches material objects, sometimes fragmented and incomplete, as starting points for speculative futures. In his ongoing work with UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, Jorge Ayala-Isaza seeks to entangle canonic history and proposes creative approximations to repositories of history. Kevin Coleman’s investment in a photographic representation of victims of the 1928 Massacre of Banana Workers in Colombia ponders on the corporate techniques of erasure, and possible revindications of overlooked histories. 

 With the moderation of Patricio Dávila, the participants will speculate on how, by working with fragments of material history and moving along the interstices of historical voids, alternative readings of the past can be drafted, and less predictable forecasts of the future can be speculated upon.

 The conversation will run for approximately 60 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for Q&amp;A.

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