Indigenous Futures Research CU

Join multi-disciplinary artists Dominick Porras and Frita Caro, who will engage in conversation around experiences in art & activism and provide a demonstration in serigraphy poster printing.

The printing of “Planeta de Senos” on posters celebrates artivist solidarity among women artists and their allies. The image originates in the work of Una Mujer Elefante, a “monster” of so-called diversity, of cultural misunderstanding, of failed translation, of neocolonial disappointment in matters of affection, a figure that is embodied in this image, one that exacerbates, at different levels, the female body as a shield.

This workshop is free and open to everyone!

𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘀 is a multi-disciplinary & lens-based Indigenous (Chicano-Coahuiltec) artist residing in Northern California. For more than two decades, Porras has worked as a collaborative community artist in serigraphy. His community-based work in printing engages artists who are not primarily printers, while sharing the process of printing through public engagement printing demonstrations. Porras acknowledges that the practice of printing is a powerful and autonomous medium with an informative ability to inform the masses. Porras is currently a visiting scholar with Fulbright Canada at Concordia University.

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼 also known as 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼 or 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘇ó𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼, is a transdisciplinary artist known by the nickname 𝙐𝙣𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙢𝙢𝙚 é𝙡é𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙩.𝙚. She writes autofictional narratives, creates evocative images, sculpts hybrid forms, invents anti-fascist prayers, and sings spells to invoke spaces of resistance and poetry. Her work explores the intersections between identity, memory, and territory, weaving connections between the personal and the collective. She lives and works in Tio’tia:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal.

Rejoignez les artistes pluridisciplinaires Dominick Porras et Frita Caro, qui animeront une discussion autour de leurs expériences dans les domaines de l’art et de l’activisme et proposeront une démonstration d’impression d’affiches en sérigraphie.

L’impression en poster de « Planeta de Senos » célèbre la solidarité artiviste ent