Workshops
2017 SMU Studio Art Graduate Retreat, Workshop taught in collaboration with Nadia Granados.
LIVE DETONATION: PERFORMING A SPECTRAL SEXUALITY IN THE MIDDLE OF A SYMBOLIC WAR
Dominant narratives of sexuality as created by and represented in mass media and pop culture are part of an oppressive cultural grammar that is learned and reified by active and passive consumers of its products. This five-day workshop engages the video and performance as a strategy to challenge the prevailing power structure, proposing performance of spectral sexuality to question/deconstruct the status quo and give rise to a series of disobedient answers and resistance. The intensive culminates in the production of work as graduate students merge their emergent practices with performance methodology and confront the war being waged in the symbolic realm by great monopolies of the communication industry.

***We would love to teach this workshop again! Contact us if you’re interested in bringing it to your university/community/art space! ***

Lectures
2018 Intro to Storytelling, ISAS arts festival, Dallas
2017 Gallery talk, Truth: 24 frames per second, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
2017 Women’s self-representation in film and performance art, Performative lecture in collaboration with Nadia Granados, Centro DeCultural, Mexico City
2017 Sound Design, University of Texas at Dallas
2016 Women’s self-representation in film and performance art, Tamayo Museum, Mexico City
2016 Sound Design, University of Texas at Dallas
2015 When the Iron Bird Flies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2014 Artist Talk, Smith College, Northampton, MA
2014 Artist Talk, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2013 Ethics of Documentation, Comparative Arts Department, Interlochen Center for the Arts
2013 Artist Talk, Interlochen Center for the Arts
2012 Observation and Interviewing: Making the Documentary, West Hartford Public Library
2009 Introduction to Buddhism, Smith College

***Contact Amber Bemak if you’d like to arrange a lecture***

Panels
2018 State of the Arts, panel discussion with artist John Gerrard, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
2018 Arts and Activism, The Cedars Union, Dallas
2017 Art and Activism, Outsider festival, Austin
2016 Picturing Buddhist Nuns: The contemporary nun in a mediated context, Media, Gender, and Religion Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2015 (Dis)Embodiment: Digital Performance Remix, &NOW;, CalArts, LA