GSMA-505

Funded by the MovingStories (SSHRC) project and The BC Arts Council, prOphecy sun‘s research investigates images drawn from dreams, memory and the moving body to create pieces that suggest parallel dream worlds. Her pieces explore the landscape of the body, intimacy and an exchange between the audience and the performer. Her experimental performances, sound compositions, installations, videos and collaborations have been exhibited in such events as DIS 2014, Performative Ecologies: Thinking through Research Practices Symposium (AB), FUSE, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, International Experimental Cinema Explosion (USA), Your Kontinent Festival: Art in Containers (Richmond), Festival des Musiques Creation (QB), Live- Performance Art Bienalle, Soundasaurus Media Arts Festival (AB), Signal and Noise Media Festival, SquareWaves Festival (UK), Dancing on the Edge Festival, Month of Performance Art (Berlin), 12 Min Max, Utopia Festival of Woman in Digital Culture, and Low Lives 4 International Festival of Live Networked Performances. 

Magnolia Pauker, PhD Candidate, The Social Justice Institute, UBC + PhD(ABD), Philosophy, Media and Communications, The European Graduate School

Magnolia is lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at ECUAD on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, Canada. Currently writing her dissertation entitled, “Philosophy as Radical Journalism: The Public Intellectual and The Rise of the Philosopher Journalist,” her practice takes up the philosophical interview as a model for critical engagement, knowledge production, and pedagogy. Sketching the contours of philosophy, cultural studies, and journalism, she is committed to working in response to the contemporary. In her ongoing dedication to learning in public, she co-facilitates a feminist free school with Randy Lee Cutler, Pleasure + Protest, Sometimes Simultaneously! Magnolia is co-editor of InterViews in Performance Philosophy: Crossings and Conversations, a collection of original essays and interviews with Judith Butler, Alphonso Lingis, Catharine Malabou, Avital Ronell, and others (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).