An artist talk between visual artist, curator, filmmaker C. Grace Chang and artistic researcher and doctoral candidate at Malmö Theatre Academy Iury Salustiano Trojaborg about Iury’s latest artistic research, shifting artistic practices, and working with a decolonial lens in the context of the Global North. Followed by a focus on the theme of “rest”: How to recharge when the demands on artists and art-makers are so high?
Duration: 45 min & QA.
C. Grace Chang is a Malmö-based curator, artist, filmmaker, and writer from New Jersey, USA. Formerly editor at Sine Theta Magazine, she now produces and hosts the Konst Detox Podcast, recorded with support from Inter Arts Center and Kulturrådet. Her curatorial, artistic and academic work combines decolonial theory with Virtual Reality, film, and installation to examine the construction of visual safe havens, coded power structures, and the politics of refusal. She specializes in applied intersectional strategies, experience design, screenwriting, and artistic research.
Visit C. Grace Chang’s artist page – cgracechang.com
Iury Salustiano Trojaborg is an artistic researcher and doctoral candidate at Malmö Theatre Academy and Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University coordinated by Kristina Jönsson. His artistic research project “On Ancestrality and Regeneration: Performing Decolonial Journeys” aims to investigate ways of using performance art as a regenerative and socio-political tool to provoke change in the understanding of the lives of immigrants who, like him, willingly travelled the old colonial routes back to the European countries that colonised them. It aims to explore the process of construction of cultural identities in a performative setting according to the intersection of gender, class and race, promoting in this way an active dialogue with the area where this research will take place: the multicultural community of Malmö, Sweden and its surroundings.
Read more about Iury as PhD student working at IAC here.
Read more about Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University – sustainability.lu.se
ABOUT KONST DETOX PODCAST:
The Konst Detox Podcast is a show about artists and art workers of color all across Sweden—their work, their lives, and how they unwind! Throughout the season, host C. Grace Chang chats with amazing, talented, fun people in the industry about their latest projects before getting to the next part of the discussion—the question: what do you do to recharge?
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Photo credits: C. Grace Chang / Iury Salutstian Trojaborg
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