A live broadcast at ARTEXTE gallery presented on Nov. 16 2022 within the context of the exhibition Sonic Fields of Reflection. In this broadcast Stefan Christoff speaks with exhibition curator Mojeanne Behzadi and sound artist Martín Rodríguez about their sound work along the US / Mexico colonial border line.
Thank you to Spencer Curtis from CKUT and Jonathan Lachance from Artexte for the technical support for this broadcast.
The photo is of Martín Rodríguez, below are the bios of the speakers you hear in this transmission.
As a transmission and sound artist, Martín Rodríguez’s work emerges from his Chicanx upbringing along the Arizona-Mexico border. He employs performance, intervention, and installation as a process for deciphering aural histories and intertwined identities.
Mojeanne Behzadi is a curator and poet based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. She is currently the director of Art Speaks, an international contemporary art lecture series and the curator of research and programs at Artexte. Mojeanne holds an MA in Art History from Concordia University and works as an independent curator on numerous projects. She recently developed and hosted the Trajectories podcast for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and curated Spillover Love at the Stewart Hall Art Gallery in Pointe-Claire, a group show presented in the summer of 2021. Her current curatorial research focuses on community practices as a framework for resistance, mobilization and social transformation.
