Breathing 2020
In early 2020, visual artist Zhao Rongjie cocooned herself in her home in the mountains of southwest China and raised 1,000 silkworms over two months, creating a series of videos, cocoon artworks, and silk embroidery as she underwent her own process of metamorphosis.
Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya
An experimental documentary film project at the Capri Cinema in Karachi, Pakistan.
TravaLíngua: Voice, Performance, Transition and other Revolutions
TravaLíngua looks at vocal and performative practices, especially related to the femininization or masculinization of vocal change in people transitioning between genders or sexual identities.
“Nasty Grrrl Baby” and Other Paintings
A collection of works created during the 2016 U.S. election and the first few months of Trump’s Presidency
The Last Traditional Celebration
A photo essay documenting the last traditional New Year’s celebration in a Nuoso village in the Cold Mountains of Sichuan province before the villagers are displaced to the city.
The Cold Mountains
Photographs of the Nuosu people whose complicated spiritual and sociocultural crisis grows more and more severe in the Cold Mountains in Southern Sichuan, China.
We Are All Musicians
We Are All Musicians is dedicated to making music accessible to everyone. A documentary film tracks the participants’ experience over two years.
Women of the Cold Mountains
By documenting women of different ethnicities, ages, and occupations, this series documents a cross-section of women’s beauty, strength, and empowerment in the Cold Mountains of Southern Sichuan, China.
This is the land of people built like trees
Poetry that attempts to create moments of understanding, connection, and healing for Indigenous People.
Marginal Equity: Poetry Reading on Indigenous Cultural Self-Determination
A book-length poem that parodies the form of a corporate/governmental prospectus—complete with opportunity statement, deliverables, and budget—all while exposing their smooth rhetoric, exploitative intentions, and empty promises.
Uno specchio per cinque (A mirror for five)
Five episodes of a story conceived and written as if it were the script of a film for which the five members of Lu Cafausu are the collective director.
From Where Do You Speak?: Locating the Possibility of Decolonization in Krista Belle Stewart’s Seraphine, Seraphine
An essay about the inadequacies of Canada’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission, considered through the lens of contemporary artistic practice.
The Rivers Have Called Upon Us
A graphic illustration inspired by the devastation wreaked by Canadian mining companies in South America.