Rafael Zen is a queer Latinx video/sound artist + performer, currently living in the land of the Coast Salish peoples – Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam (also called Vancouver in its colonial statement). They research intersections between new media, performance, and decolonial resistance, and organize Durations, an independent sound art + video art festival for emerging media/performing artists. They hold a Master’s degree in Visual Arts – Contemporary Artistic Processes, and two graduate certificates in Contemporary Literature and Semiotics, researching anti-colonial + anti-capitalist poetic/political practices, identity-based politics, decolonial storytelling/theory, and political counterattacks through artistic processes. Currently, they pursue a degree in New Media + Sound Art at Emily Carr University of Arts + Design.
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