Celia Vara is a postdoctoral fellow at the Moving Image Research Lab at McGill University. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication (2019) at Concordia University (QC, Canada). She is a psychologist since 1997, and her master thesis (“Feminist Video Art in the 70’s in Spain”) won in 2013 the 1st Prize-Award in Gender and Research by Jaume I University in Spain. She is also a visual artist and curator. Her writings and media work have appeared in Journal feral feminisms, Institute for Research on Women (Rutgers University), McGraw Hill Editorial, Art and Politics and Performance Research (Routledge Journal, Taylor and Francis). Her research explores the use of sensorial body in 1970s feminist performance art and its relations with corporeal agency and feminist resistance in the current cultural and political context. It further develops experimental methods employing kinesthesia and kinesthetic empathy as research-creation methodologies. Her research interests include video performance, documentary, curatorship, and research-creation from a feminist perspective.

https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/celia-vara

Contact: 

celia.vara@mail.mcgill.ca 

celiavara@gmail.com