Joana Joachim is a PhD Student in the department of Art History and Communication Studies and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University. She works under the supervision of Dr. Charmaine Nelson. Her research interests include critical race theory, Black feminist studies, Black Canadian studies and Canadian slavery studies. Her current work examines representations of Black women in Canadian and American nineteenth century genre paintings and photography, with a particular focus on the legacies of slavery located in ongoing discrimination against their hair.
Joana Joachim est doctorante en histoire de l’art avec une concentration en études féministes à l’Institut genre, sexualité et féminisme à l’université McGill. Elle travaille sous la supervision de Dr Charmaine Nelson. Ses intérêts de recherche incluent les études critiques de la race, l’afroféminisme, les études sur les Noir.e.s au Canada et l’étude de l’esclavage canadien. Son travail examine les représentations de femmes Noires au Canada et aux États-Unis dans les peintures de genre ainsi qu’en photographie durant le 19e siècle. Elle a un intérêt particulier pour les séquelles continues de l’esclavage à travers la discrimination contre les cheveux de celles-ci.
Ayanna Dozier is a Ph.D. Communication Studies Candidate enrolled in the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies’ graduate certificate program at McGill University. She previously received her Master’s degree in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her dissertation, entitled The Aberrations of Affect: Archives, Ritual, and the Counter-Poetics of Black Women’s Experimental Short Films (1970s-Present), examines the formal and narrative aesthetics in Black women’s experimental short films, arguing that formal and narrative aesthetics intersect with the filmmaker’s sociocultural experience to engage with epistemic disobedience against the cinematic overrepresentation of Man. She is a recent recipient of the Joan Tisch teaching fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art and has held previous research fellowships at Marvel Comics and the performance art organization, Performa. You can find her scholarship in the Liquid Blackness Journal, International Journal of Communication, Performa Magazine, and a forthcoming special issue of Feminist Media Studies entitled “Affective Economies.” Her current research is supported by a Media@McGill Graduate Research Fellowship and the Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Fellowship for the Rose Library at Emory University.
Ayanna Dozier est une candidate au doctorat à l’Université McGill en études des communications. Elles est aussi inscrite au programme de certificat d’études supérieures à l’Institut genre, sexualité et féminisme. Sa recherche examine la façon dont la mémoire et l’expérience socioculturelle des cinéastes noires se révèlent dans l’esthétique formelle et le récit cinématographique. Ses articles ont été publiés dans Liquid Blackness Journal, International Journal of Communications, Performa Magazine, et prochainement dans une édition spéciale de la revue Feminist Media Studies, intitulée « Affective Economies ».
niv Acosta is a dance artist, educator, black Dominican, transsexual, queer native New Yorker. He attended the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance (NYC), American Dance Festival (Duke Univ.) and CalArts (Dance BFA). In 2010 niv received an Art and Social Change Grant from The Leeway Foundation with which he presented two solo works titled “denzel” and “denzel prelude” at Studio 34 in Philadelphia. He moved back to New York and presented “denzel superstructure” through Movement Research Open Performance (NYC) and The Community Education Center (Philadelphia, PA). In 2011 niv was accepted into the Fresh Tracks Residency Program through New York Live Arts. During the residency he presented and developed two works. “denzel again” was presented at New York Live Arts in December of 2011. niv presented “denzel mini petite bathtub happy meal” (2012) at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (Upstart Festival), and Danspace Project (Draftworks). niv then presented “excerpt hearts” (2012), an under-rehearsed cover band, at The Meulensteen Gallery (group show), The Tank, and Danspace Project (Ralph Lemon’s, “Marathon. The End”). In the same year niv traveled “denzel mini petite bathtub happymeal” to Pieter Performance Space in Los Angeles. Later in 2012 niv presented a solo work, “the panther”, at MOMA PS1, and after, began developing the final installment of the “denzel series”, titled, “i shot denzel”. i shot denzel was presented in various stages at Center for Performance Research (2012), 92nd Street Y, Judson Memorial Church (2013), MOMA PS1, Abrons Arts Center, Human Resources (Los Angeles), and New York Live Arts (2014). Since the close of the “denzel series,” niv has been working on a new project expanding on his interests in sci-fi, astronomy, and disco. He’s presented two solo works titled “cosmic muck” and “inner disco” at Vox Populi in Philadelphia and at The Studio Museum in Harlem. niv has collaborated with artists Malik Gaines, Alexandro Segade, Andrea Geyer, A.K. Burns, and Ralph Lemon.
niv Acosta est une artiste de danse, educator, dominican noir, transsexuel, queer, qui est originaire de New York. Il a attendu l’école de danse contemporaine de Martha Graham, le festival de danse américan à Université de Duke, et il a obtenu son baccalauréat à «CALARTS». Dans 2010, niv a obtenu une allocation de changement artistique et social de le «Leeway Foundation». Pour cette recompense, il a présenté deux pièces d’art intitule «denzel» et «denzel prelude» à 34 studio en Philadelphia. niv travaille sur deux nouveaux projects qui examine science fiction, astronomie, et disco depuis la fin de les séries de denzel. Il a collaboré avec les artistes Malik Gaines, Alexandro Segade, Andrea Geyer, A.K. Burns, et Ralph Lemon.
Ronald Rose-Antoinette is a writer, holds a Master’s degree in Film Studies, and lives in Montreal. He is also a Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy (Concordia University).
Ronald Rose-Antoinette est un écrivain, titulaire d'une maîtrise en études cinématographiques, basé à Montréal. Il est également candidat au doctorat en philosophie (Université Concordia).