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Safia Siad
Safia Siad is an independent curator, scholar, and DJ with a practice centered in deep listening, unlearning, fugitive collaboration, and opaque movement(s). She is currently completing her MA in Art History at Concordia University and is curator and project manager with the Afrosonic Innovation Lab.
Working Thesis Title: Afrosonic Aesthetics In Visual Art
Supervisor: Dr. Joana Joachim
Research Interests:
- Black Studies
- Sonic Studies
- Curatorial Practice
- DJ'ing as Praxis
Teaching Assistantships:
- ARTH 359 Studies in Contemporary Photographic Art with Dr. Julia Skelly
Research Assistantships:
- Afrofuturism & Black Lives Matter in the Canadian Art Scene, SSHRC funded research project, led by Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim
Publications
- Loving as Resistance from Our Schools/our Selves. Vol. Spring 2015, Constellations of Black Radical Imagining of Our Schools/Our Selves, V. 119. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2015.
- Book Review: The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology Edited by Karina Vernon Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2020
Conferences
- ASA (American Studies Association). Montreal, Quebec "Solidarity: What Love Looks Like In Public" Nov 2-5, 2023 Paper: Revival! Visual Ecologies of Multiplicity & The Black Ecstatic
- Global Reggae Conference. The University of the West Indies-Mona (Kingston, Jamaica) "A Century of Sound: Technology, Culture and Performance." February 14-17, 2024 Panel: Documenting Canadian Sound Systems, Possibilities and Nuances. An Introduction to SST Canada Paper: Opaque Realness: Toronto’s Afrosonic Archive
Exhibitions
- the stars that show us to our love, 2018 Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa Ontario
- a map for this place, 2018 Humber Galleries, Toronto Ontario
- the other side of the sun, 2020 Nia Centre for the Arts, Toronto Ontario
- interlude, 2020 Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington Ontario
- Black Portraiture[s] Studio Visits, 2021 Black Portraitures, Online
- this bridge between starshine and clay, 2023 Critical Distance, Toronto Ontario
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