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Kama La Mackerel is a multilingual writer, visual artist, performer, educator, and literary translator who holds a deep faith in love, justice, and individual and collective empowerment. Their practice blurs boundaries between traditional artistic disciplines to create aesthetic spaces where decolonial queer and trans vocabularies emerge. Over the past decade, Kama has developed an approach that is narratological and theoretical, while personal and political, rooted in ritual, meditation, ancestral healing, auto-ethnography, oral history, and archival research. They have presented work in both national and international contexts, including La Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, and venues across Canada, Europe, and the United States. As an author, Kama's notable works include 'Indrazaal et la quête de l’océan' and 'ZOM-FAM', both recognized in literary award circuits. In 2021, they received the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize for Emerging Mid-Career Artists from the Canada Council for the Arts. Alongside their artistic practice, Kama is a dedicated educator, with 15 years of experience working as an arts facilitator with marginalized communities, teaching decolonial practices in the Department of Contemporary Dance at Concordia University.
Administered by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema; focuses on cinematic arts practice and research-creation.