Artists

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Angelic Goldsky [t(he)y] is a queer trans-gender Russian-Jewish poet and media visionary. As an advocate for justice in media, specifically towards imaginations of queerness, Angelic has facilitated workshops across North America. A working group member of the Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought at Ryerson University, and a dedicated researcher of emancipatory media systems, Angelic loves dreaming outside of systems of violence, digging up language, and moving towards multiplicity. 

Angelic has developed programs in partnership with the Museum of Anthropology, Jewish Queer Trans Vancouver and Everybody Is In Downtown Eastside, working in community cohesion through art and media. At the University of British Columbia, they founded the Artivism: Festival of Creative Resistance and co-curated UBC’s 2SLGBTQQIA+ Pride Festival. Throughout their studies, they developed research projects on the representations of sexual violence within news broadcasts as well as the oppressive algorithms dictating Google Images. 

Angelic is a white settler who grew up on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Angelic holds a Bachelor of Media Studies from the University of British Columbia. They are expected to graduate with an MA in Arts Politics from New York University in 2021.

Artist Website: angelicgoldsky.net
Artist Instagram: instagram.com/angelic.unt
Artist Twitter: twitter.com/free_angelica

Presentation Description

Angelic Goldsky will be discussing how the site of the social justice meme can be a place of stagnation instead of a place for public reckoning for deep historical-cultural trauma. Looking at specific examples of memes such as the common, “Trans women are women,” “ACAB, and other photos of symbolic solidarity for social movements have lived on social media, Goldsky will open the discussion to what lives underneath and beyond the meme.

Angelic Goldsky will be speaking at Visionary Organizing on Social Media: The Limits and Possibilities of Touch, Tenderness and Timelessness on May 20, 2021 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm PDT.

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Juli Saragosa enjoys collaboration and interdisciplinary practice, extending the practice to the curatorial and educational, as a grassroots organizer, curator and workshop leader, film and media arts instructor, and mentor. Having grown up in an immigrant family with positive encouragement to try everything and with the economic necessity to use whatever is at hand (including a home photography darkroom), Juli was determined to become an artist from an early age. Moving images became a suitable passion for this eternally curious DIY experimenter. Juli’s short films have been shown at festivals in Milan, London, L.A., Chicago, Berlin, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Tunis, and Irkutsk. In 2005, Amoré won the Best Canadian Film award at Toronto’s International One-minute Film Festival and in 2011, it won the Jury Prize for Experimental Film at the Toronto Underground Film Festival. 

Artist Website: jsaragosa.de

Artist Statement

Let Me In (2020) is an interactive web-based queer ASMR piece that uses acoustic close-ups to show how the sum of the parts of a queer body (visible and audible) is read subconsciously in order for a perception of queerness or gender to be made. This work brings those body parts (hair on the upper lip, legs) and accessories of queer life (sequins, queer books, latex gloves) to the foreground. This work explores how the digitization of human connection (all the more relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic), mediated through mouse clicks and the touch of fingertips, and how audio through calming sensual whispers can bring us (queer bodies) a sense of interconnection in an ever more isolating world.

Experience Juli Saragosa’s work, Let Me In

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Sarah Shamash’s research-creation practice is committed to decolonial, feminist critique and action; it encompasses, artmaking, writing, curation, and education. Her artworks comprise the use of media in a wide variety of formats, such as installation, documentary, photography, sound, performance, and video. They have been shown in curated exhibitions and film festivals internationally. Her projects often underline geopolitics, feminist thought, and historical difference as a marker for understanding the world and worldlings in media histories. Her work as an artist, researcher, educator, and programmer can be understood as interconnected and whole; they all revolve around a passion for cinema and media art as a pluriversal technology of knowledge. She gratefully raises her son and lives on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh First Nations in what is known as Vancouver.

Artist Website: sarahshamash.com
Artist Instagram: instagram.com/sarah_shamash

Presentation Description

This discussion will center feminist models for sustainable creation processes in resistance to predatory surveillance capitalist paradigms. Sarah Shamash will reflect on feminist solidarity and feminized labour in the face of patriarchal structures and how the above have been impacted by the pandemic. Collaboration as part of a relational practice will be examined through past and ongoing art and film work such as the iterative performance “Recipes for (un)domestication” (with media artist Deanne Achong) that make visible and audible how positionalities as women and as caregivers from diaspora backgrounds politicize auditory experiences. She will highlight a collaborative work-in-progress (with artist-scholar Sonia Medel) on Latin American media herstories through intergenerational dialogues with a Latin American community of artists, scholars, and activists. She will further reflect on feminism, collaboration, and artmaking as a speculative practice of resistance as it intersects with her work with the art/mamas collective.

Sarah Shamash will be speaking at Feminist Craft of Care for Times of Crisis, a presentation panel on May 13, 2021, from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM PDT.