Pedagogy
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I have learned and taught inside and outside of formal educational settings in Canada, Guatemala and Mexico. While I have been entwined with academia for my entire adult life thus far, I am slowly disentangling and leaning more and more towards community-based, peer-to-peer, informal pedagogical projects and spaces.
I have studied anthropology, cinema, documentary media, visual arts and Latin American and Caribbean studies at the University of Toronto, Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University and York University. I have held postdoctoral fellowships at York University + OCADU, Western University and the University of Alberta. However, in parallel with this academic experience, I have also learned and taught at artist-run centres, unions, solidarity networks, NGOs, communal kitchens, museums, agroecology projects, art galleries and other diverse spaces.
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I am currently reflecting upon and metabolizing the virtues, benefits, advantages and limitations of (angloamerican) academia. As a life-long learner, I am committed to exploring and transcending those limits through peer learning and communitarian forms of knowledge.
As part of my SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University (2021-23), I developed and taught the course “Visualizing Foodways: Art + Food from Hemispheric Perspectives.” The syllabus is available here: Syllabus_Visualizing_Foodways.pdf
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With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, I have been curating and organizing “descomponer / regenerar” as part of Materia Abierta’s Indisciplinas program. “descomponer / regenerar” is an arts- and ecology-based public program of workshops and activations based in our collective composting project and rooftop garden on the patio of the Materia Abierta studio in the Escandón neighbourhood of Mexico City. The ongoing program of encounters explores decomposition and regeneration in their widest senses.