HEMISPHERIC ENCOUNTERS

Hemispheric Encounters is hosted by Sensorium: Centre for Digital Technologies in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design at York University. It brings together a group of artists, academics, and activists from 16 universities and 16 arts and social justice-based organizations across the Americas. Partnership involves collaborative projects, exchanges, dialogues, and joint provocations staged around project themes investigating performance as a vehicle for hemispheric and political change. Our academic partners are home to numerous labs, centres, and initiatives that study performance as an arts-led research method, and community partners bring vital experience in working on the real-life impacts of the hemispheric issues that we are exploring... We aim to create a network of academics, artists, and activists across the Americas working in and with hemispheric performance to share strategies and resources, form transnational alliances, and develop more advanced..