#oneofthem

[english below]

si vous avez raté ma performance-rituel // ’é // présenté dans le contexte de mon expo / dans le cadre de @momentabiennale à @lagaleriedeluqam, la performance est maintenant disponible en ligne et peut être visionnée jusqu'au 24 octobre. je vous ai mis un lien dans la bio!

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if you missed my ritual performance // ’é // presented in the context of my exhibit / in the context of @momentabiennale at @lagaleriedeluqam, the performance is now available online to be streamed until oct 24. there’s a link in my bio!

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gratitude to Emil Briones & @babemaharjan for being part of this femme ritual. gratitude to @jessica_sofia_lopez for being a superstar & supporting me in bringing this vision to fruition. gratitude to Jean-Michael Seminaro Sandrick Mathurin for documenting the performance.

#momenta #momenta2021 #performance #performer #poem #poetry #poet #installation #multimedia #yourbodyistheocean #moncorpsestlocean #zomfam #artist #artistic #artistsoninstagram #artistlife #literature #qtbipoc #bipoc #gay #queer #trans #transgender #oneofthem #montreal #mauritius #transmauritius #lamackerel #kamalamackerel (at Parc Verdun)
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ten years ago, i graduated from this MA program (then called Theory, Culture and Politics). i was broke, in debt, traumatized (but didn’t have access to such language to name this at the time), thoroughly disillusioned with north-american academia.

and here we are, exactly 10 years since i defended my thesis, as a grassroots self- and community-taught educator, artist, facilitator, writer, going back to my alumni as a guest speaker.

if you want to join, i have put a link in the bio.

“Since graduating from the Theory, Culture and Politics MA program at Trent University in 2011, Kama La Mackerel has gone on to establish themselves as a leading multidisciplinary artist and writer in Canada. In this talk, they look over their body of artistic work of the past decade, which spans from performance, poetry, photography, the moving image to digital art and literary translation, to offer a theoretical framework in which they ground their aesthetics and politics.

At once a performance lecture and a studio visit, this talk will delve into the following questions: Is a decolonial enunciation possible at all in a racialized body that bears the weight of colonial history? What are the strategies of selfhood that a trans artist can deploy to catalyze new signs of identity and innovative sites of collaboration and contestation? How can hybrid spaces and interstices provide an anticolonial framework to disrupt fixed identifications as they relate to space, time, history, language, kinship and the body?”

#poetry #poet #artist #artistic #artistsoninstagram #artists #canlit #literature #qtbipoc #bipoc #gay #queer #trans #transgender #femme #oneofthem #montreal #montrealart #mtl #queerart #montrealartist #mauritius #zomfam #lamackerel #kamalamackerel #peterborough #trent #culturalstudies (at Trent University)
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[english below]

#MONTRÉAL - je suis choyé·e de pouvoir FINALEMENT présenter une PERFORMANCE LIVE dans le cadre de @momentabiennale. // ’é // sera présenté ce vendredi, 10 septembre à 17h30 au Parc de Verdun (coin Lasalle & 2è Ave), près du fleuve (ça sera reporté au samedi en cas de pluie).

Si vous voulez le voir en live, il y a un lien dans la bio pour s'enregistrer. Sinon, ça va être diffusé sur les pages Facebook et Instagram de MOMENTA!

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#MONTREAL - i am thrilled to be FINALLY presenting a LIVE PERFORMANCE as part of @momentabiennale. // ’é // will be presented this friday, 10 sept à 5:30pm at Parc de Verdun (corner Lasalle and 2è Ave), by the river (it will be postponed to Saturday in case of rain).

If you want to see the performance live, please register via the link in bio. Otherwise, it will be live streamed on the Facebook and Instagram pages of MOMENTA!

Photo credit: @vanessafortinphotographe

#momenta #momenta2021 #performance #performer #poem #poetry #poet #installation #multimedia #yourbodyistheocean #moncorpsestlocean #zomfam #artist #artistic #artistsoninstagram #artistlife #literature #qtbipoc #bipoc #gay #queer #trans #transgender #oneofthem #montreal #mauritius #lamackerel #kamalamackerel (at Parc Verdun)
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i know this is a weird thing to say, given that we are still living through a pandemic, but really, it does feel like in spite of it all, in the past year, all my dreams came true ✨

& this feature on @cbcarts is an absolute, absolute dream come true! my lil’immigrant heart is full! ❤️

big love to @metonymypress & @mtlartsinter for having made a home for my art

LINK IN BIO if you wanna read the full piece!

#poetry #poet #artist #artistic #artistsoninstagram #artists #canlit #literature #qtbipoc #bipoc #gay #queer #trans #transgender #femme #oneofthem #montreal #montrealart #mtl #queerart #montrealartist #mauritius #zomfam #lamackerel #kamalamackerel

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTVhqgYH_A3/?utm_medium=tumblr

i know this is a weird thing to say, given that we are still living through a pandemic, but really, it does feel like in spite of it all, in the past year, all my dreams came true ✨

& this feature on @cbcarts is an absolute, absolute dream come true! my lil’immigrant heart is full! ❤️

big love to @metonymypress & @mtlartsinter for having made a home for my art

LINK IN BIO if you wanna read the full piece!

#poetry #poet #artist #artistic #artistsoninstagram #artists #canlit #literature #qtbipoc #bipoc #gay #queer #trans #transgender #femme #oneofthem #montreal #montrealart #mtl #queerart #montrealartist #mauritius #zomfam #lamackerel #kamalamackerel

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTVhqgYH_A3/?utm_medium=tumblr