EMILIO ROJAS

Curriculum Vitae CARPETA DE TRABAJO 2012 www.performancero.com

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EDUCATION Emily Carr University of Arts and Design CANADA BFA in Film, Video and Integrated Media, 2012

1065 East. Pender. Vancouver, B.C. Citiezen U 9 months anti-oppression and anti-discrimination training and facilitation, 2012 telefono (604) 500 17 03
VIVO Media Arts Centre MEXICO Courses in film editing, Protools, Analog detour to electronic music 2009-2011 Cinefelias: de la Cultura Cinematografica int. 601, Fomento Col. Del Valle Cinema production and screen writing diploma , 2008

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Yoga West, Vancouver K.R.I. Kundalini Yoga teacher, 220 hours, 9 month program, 2009-2010 performancero@gmail.com 62 hours Level Two, 3 months Lifestyles and Lifecycles 2011

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013 Artist Assistant for Adad Hannah. Citizen U, Queer Migration Collective and Routes to Roots Facilitator Board of Directors, LIVE Biennale, Vancouver (since 2010) 2012 Youth Jury, Latin American Film Festival 2010-11 Artist Assistant and Gallery Administrator, Peter Kiss Gallery Curator of Performance and Installation, Vivarium Gallery, Vancouver Programming Committee , Queer Film Festival, Vancouver 2009-10 Programming/Curatorial Assistant. VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS 2013 British Columbia Film + Media Arts Innovation Fund British Columbia Arts Council Innovations Program 2011 Rousseau et Vermette Scholarship, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada. 2008 Emily Carr Institute International Entrance Scholarship

Emilios dedication to his art and practice, his involvement in the community, along with his creativity, charisma and energy, make his work meaninguful for any environment.
Kika Thorne, former curator and programmer VIVO Media Arts Centre

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Del Silencio al Lenguage, Galeria Nuble, Santander, Spain. Projected Futures, Cineworks, Anex, Swarm 2013, Vancouver, Canada. After your Fear, 13, Propeller Art Center, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada. Difractions of the Local, Backgallery Project, Back Gallery Project, Vancouver, Canada. Love Letter to Paris, Dimanche Rouge, Plateforme Gallery, Paris, France. Transmutazione, Galeria Modrian Suite, Rome, Italy. Lo que Dejamos Atras, Villa Iris, Taller Tacita Dean, Fundacion Botin, Santander. Spain. Queer Arts Festival, Roundhouse Centre, Vancouver, Canada. The Works International Arts Festival, Edmonton, Allberta River North Gallery district performance series, BRAVE NEW ART WORLD, Chicago, Illinois. RAPID PULSE International Performance Art Festival, DEFIBRILLATOR Art Gallery. Chicago Illinois On the Other Side, Infraction Performance Festival, Venice, Italy ThisPlace Vancouver, with Igor Santizo, and Guadalupe Martinez, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver. Intesections, film screening and performance, The Glasshouse, Brooklyn, New York. Mestizo Series, in Collaboration with Adulio Pitaksalok, Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah, Georgia. Intesections, film screening and performance, The Apothecary, Asheville, NC. Intesections , North Carolina Film and Video Festival, Greensboro, University of North Carolina. 2012 What Will The Next Revolution Look Like?, in collaboration with Karen Mizra and Brad Butler, The Museum of Non-partipation, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver LIVE Performance Biennale, Impromptu Performance Festival, Vancouver Trauma with Care Performance, Access Gallery, Feminist Art Gallery Closing Party, Vancouver Invisible Cities dinner, Strathcona Art Gallery, Sept 13th, Vancouver Intersections, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina. July-August Extraction & Insercin: Wisdom & Juicio, with David Khang Non-Canadian Canadian, Transmuted International Performance Festival, Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City Unconditional Intersubjectivity with my mother, Emily Carr Graduation Exhibition. Vancouver Easy Street - Letter of Apology, Edmonton, Alberta Screening Nationalism & Sports, Gatherette, Philladelphia, USA Screening Nationalism & Sports, The Off Center, San Francisco, USA Borderlands in collaboration with Guadalupe Martinez. A-H- gallery, Vancouver Screening Nationalism & Sports, QuORUM Forum, Tennis Court, NYC, USA. 2011 Theory of Spontaneous Order, Espacio Transitorio, Mexico City The Journey to the Other, Finding Correspondences, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada Visual-eyez, Performance Festival 2011, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Ofrenda de Muertos, Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver Letter of Apology, The Fifty/Fifty Gallery, Victoria, Canada In(vest)Men-T, Access Gallery, Sweaty Bones, Vancouver This is for you, Urlaub in Berlin, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany TransMutazione, Infraction Performance Festival, Venice, Italy Not-Belonging-To, Spanish Pavilion- 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy On Matters of Sensitivity, The Art Summit, Vancouver, Canada Some Things Should Remain in Silence, Not Sent Letters, BLIM, Vancouver Mestizo. W2. Drop Out Video exhibition. Vancouver, Canada. 45,000, Who is that body in the window? Grunt Gallery, Vancouver El Grito, Vivarium Gallery- Vancouver (solo) 2010 El Grito, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta (solo) Miko Kuro Midnight Tea, Art Exchange Gallery, Seattle, USA Ablution, Let PACT, 221A Gallery. Vancouver A Night of translation, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada. Untitled (Beast), Beast PACT, 221A Gallery. Vancouver, Canada Nationalism & Sports; The only way to love, Vivarium Gallery, Vancouver (solo) Trade, Centre A of Contemporary Asian Art- - Sex Trade . Vancouver Sperm Bubbles, Slivers, Shivers, & Snakeskins, Chapel Arts, Vancouver Of Hunger, Homelessness & Spectacle, Vivarium and VIVO, Vancouver (solo) VIVO2010; SafeAssembly, White Pillows Collective, VIVO, Vancouver Transmutation of a Fruit, Prans(formance), Gallery Cachet. Vancouver Inside diptych, Exist-ance, White Canvas Gallery, Queensland, Australia 2009 World Views on Paper planes, Free Candy, Councourse Gallery, Vancouver Inside Spectacle, Inside Show, Abraham J. Rogatnick Gallery, Vancouver 300 years, The Body and Bodice-, Brow Gallery, Vancouver Genocide of the Arts, LIVE International Performance Biennale, Vancouver Bypass 2010, Transmediale, New Media and Art Symposium, Berlin, Germany Bypass 2010, ARS Electronica Festival, Linz , Austria Bypass 2010, Web Biennale, Galataperform gallery Istanbul, Turkey Bypass 2010, AND (Abandon Normal Devices), Liverpool, England Diaspora Steps, Analouge Detour to Electronic Sound, VIVO, Vancouver 2008 Light In Darkness, Media Show Fall, Emily Carr Auditorium, Vancouver Plastic Nightmare, The Green House Exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver Projected skin, Interwoven, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver Tactile Orgasm, Net(work): Performance Art, VIVO Media Arts , Vancouver Undress, Abraham J. Rogatnick Media Gallery, Vancouver C

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CURATORIAL PROJECTS 2013 (UN)DYING DREAM: Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, Canada. Mi casa es tu Casa, Residency in the artist house in Mexico City. Ecoas en el Silencio, Latin American Performance, Vancouver, Canada. 2012 Malibu Mobile Museum- Residency program inside a 1976 Chevy Malibu Mi casa es tu casa- Ongoing residency hosted by the artists mother in Mexico City 2011 Vivarium Gallery- Curator of Performance and Installation, artists: Gabryel Harrison, Keith Doyle and Evann Siebens, Jamie Griffiths, Jay Senetchko. 2010 A night of translations, Western Front,Vancouver VIVO2010; Safe Faade, VIVO Media Arts, Olympic Programing, Vancouver Cathy Busby, Edgar Heap of Birds, Tania Willard, Jammie Griffiths, Emma Hendrix. 2009 Noam Gonick, NO SAFE WORDS, VIVO, Vancouver Willy Le Maitre, (Edia), VIVO, Vancouver (assistant) Margaret Dragu. VERB WOMAN; LIVE biennale.Vancouver MORE ENLIGHTENMENT, VIVO, David Cunningham, Kathleen Ritter, Sylvain Sailly, Zoe Tissandier, Amy Zion, Vancouver (assistant) Magnetic City- a VHS story, Jem Noble. VIVO. Vancouver (assistant) COLLECTIVES Founder White Pillows Performance Collective, 2010 active during Olympics, Vancouver. Co-Founder Queer Migration Collective, 2011- to present, Vancouver Member La Bota Sucia, since 2011 Mexico City Member Dance Troupe Practice, since 2011, Vancouver. COLLECTIONS VIVO, Video Out Distribution and Video Collection Surrey Art Gallery Permanent Collection Private Collections RESIDENCIES Fundacion Botin, Summer Residency with Tacita Dean, Santander, Spain. July 2013 Hammock Residency, Vancouver, Canada. April-May 2013. Elsewhere Collaborative Museum, July-September 2012. Greensboro, North Carolina Surrey Art Gallery, Finding Correspondences, Sep 11-Dec15th 2012. Surrey, Canada 54th Venice Biennale, Pirate Camp; Stateless Pavillion. June 2011. Venice, Italy STAG, Strathcona Art Gallery, March-April. 2011. Vancouver Casa Coral, Dec 2010, Jan 2011. Isla Mujeres, Mexico. Theatre of Erosion, or I Hate Work that its not a Play lead by Geoffrey Farmer, Nov-Dec 2010. Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta TALKS Emily Carr University, The Politics of Performance, Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 16, 2013. Villa Iris, Fundacion Botin, Santander, Spain. July 8, 2013. Savannah College of Art and Design, Decolonial Aesthetics, March 4th, 2013. University of North Carolina Asheville , Intersectionilty, March. 1st. 2013 University of North Carolina Greensboro, Film and Video Festival, Feb. 22nd, 2013. Culture Crawl Pannel, Arts + Accessibility, Nov. 18, 2012. Vancouver, Canada. University of North Carolina Greensboro, Intersections, August 28th, 2012, North Carolina Elsewhere Museum, August 10th, 2012, Greensboro, North Carolina. Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual . April 27th, 2012. Mexico City La Esmeralda, National Centre for the Arts, w David Khang. April 26, 2012. Mexico City Surrey Art Gallery, September 15, 2011. Surrey, Canada SFU Harbor Centre , March 15, 2011. Vancouver Visible: A Discussion With Artists of Colour, VQF Festival August 21, 2010 PERIODICALS /CATALOGUES 2013 Katalog, Third Issue. Extraction & Insercin: Wisdom & Juicio 2012 F.isura-Documentacin Fotografica de Performance y Arte Accin. Antonio Juarez. 2011 Globe and Mail Revival of Day of the Death , Oct 3 Fish Griwkowsky, Emilio Rojas @ Visualeyez Edmonton Journal, Sept 15 2010 Michael Lithgow, 9 Amazing Political Art Projects of 2010 , Art Threat, Dec 19 Mara Kardas Art and activism meet Rabble.ca, Feb 19 Michael Lithgow Semiotics of protest,ethnographic violence, Art Threat, Feb 25 2009 24 H- Vancouver- Front page- Genocide of the arts performance- Sept 10 Globe and Mail- Genocide of the arts- Arts and Culture- Sep 13 The Province- Genocide of the arts -Arts and Culture- Sep 13 The Capilano Courier- Performance and the nude Feb 9 D

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