MAY 9, 2022, 6 PM
RAUL MOARQUECH FERRERA-BALANQUET
Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet is an Indigenous Kairibe and Africana Arab Caribbean interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, Fulbright scholar, and community activist born in Havana, Cuba. He holds a PhD from Duke University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. A founder member of Latino Midwest Video Collective, Laboratorio Cartodigital, and the collective Afroyucatecxs. A prominent artist from the Mariel Generation, he is the author of Aestesis Decolonial Transmoderna Latinx_MX, FONCA-Instituto Kanankil A.C., 2019; editor of the anthology Andar Erotico Decolonial, Ediciones del Signo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
His writings have appeared in Latino Book Review Magazine, 2022; Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Sisters in the Life: A History of African American Lesbian Media-Making, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina; Caribbean InTransit, No 4, Virginia, USA; Social Text Journal / Periscope, New York; Artecubano, Vol.3-4, Havana, Cuba; Bienal de La Habana Para leer, Universitat De Valencia, Spain; Public No. 41, Toronto, Canada; Inter, Art Actuael, No 102, Québec, Canada; Vídeo en Latinoamerica. Una visión crítica, Editorial Brumaria, Madrid; Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, New York; the Mexican literary magazine Navegaciones Zur, and the electronic publication Net Art Review.
Ferrera-Balanquet artworks, installations, videos, and performances have been exhibited at Haceres Decoloniales, Galeria ASAB, Bogota, Colombia; BE.BOP 2013 Black Europe Body Politics, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany; DysTorpia Media Project, Queens Art Museum, New York; Cuba: La Isla Posible, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain; MIX New York, Film Anthology, Nueva York; Centre for Media and Culture in Education, University of Toronto, Canada; Film and Video Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival San Francisco, California, USA. Executive curator of Arte Nuevo InteractivA (2001-2014), Ferrera-Balanquet has organized numerous art, video and new media exhibitions. Among them are Africana Hemispheric Performance, Actions, Socially Public Participations, Rituals, and Ceremonies, Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; Indigeneity | Decoloniality | @rt, Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; Videos That Unmask, Test and Invade the Colonial System, Program I, Video In, Vancouver B.C., Canada, 1992; Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Iowa II, International Festival and Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1986.
In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from Critical Mind, FONCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Tinker Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grant, Prince Claus Foundation, FOECAY, US/Mexico Cultural Fund, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National Endowment for the Arts and The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation.