Catalyst 2023 Speaker Series: Kama La Mackerel

The Creative School Catalyst Speaker Series presents Kama La Mackerel. Join the artist for this presentation where they discuss their multidisciplinary work which creates hybrid spaces to enunciate decolonial and queer vocabularies. 

Kama La Mackerel is a multilingual writer, visual artist, performer, translator and educator who believes in love, transformation and justice. Their work ventures beyond the borders of disciplinarity and creates hybrid spaces from which to enunciate decolonial and queer vocabularies. Wholeheartedly invested in ocean narratives, island sovereignty, transgender poetics and ancestral healing, their body of work challenges colonial notions of time and space as these relate to history, power, language, subject formation and the body. ZOM-FAM their poetry collection (Metonymy Press) was named a CBC Best Poetry Book and a Globe and Mail Best Debut. World Literature Today called ZOM-FAM "a milestone in Mauritian literature." In 2021, they were awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Joseph S. Stauffer Prize for emerging and mid-career artists in Visual Arts.

lamackerel.net (external link)  // @KamaLaMackerel

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