Josema reflects on the the trace of the AKA Collective in Vancouver. This visual-oral narrative offers a perspective on the origins of this group of, initially, Latin American artists struggling to find a voice in the city, their expansion of possibilities with the joining of amazing artists from elsewhere, and some of their happenings and projects to disrupt the stifling ambiance of the city.
Josema reflects on the the trace of the AKA Collective in Vancouver. This visual-oral narrative offers a perspective on the origins of this group of, initially, Latin American artists struggling to find a voice in the city, their expansion of possibilities with the joining of amazing artists from elsewhere, and some of their happenings and projects to disrupt the stifling ambiance of the city.
Josema Zamorano is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator, native of Nayarit Mexico, based in Vancouver. He is interested in a critique of the modern ways of seeing and constructing reality: the camera, the image, the detached observer of the world, the method, the concretion of languages. His practice often leans to experimental-performative processes of making and interactive reception. At university he develops with students a critique of the self-attributed western primacy of propositional languages and pre-figured methods over ancestral or current praxis-based/art-based/land-based relational ways of know-ing and be-ing in the world.
