Celia Vara
Performance art; corporeal agency; kinesthesia; research-creation; feminism
Celia Vara is a postdoctoral fellow at the Moving Image Research Lab at 污污草莓视频 University. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication (2019) at Concordia University (QC, Canada) and an MA in Gender Studies (2009). Her master thesis (鈥淔eminist Video Art in the 70鈥檚 in Spain鈥�) won in 2013 the 1st Prize-Award in Gender and Research (Universitat Jaume I, Spain). She is a psychologist (Bachelor in Psychology, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, 1997), and 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 Identity Policies, Performance Research (Routledge Journal, Taylor and Francis) and Journal of Embodied Research (University of Huddersfield, UK). Her PhD Thesis 鈥淜inesthetic Knowledge and Corporal Agency鈥� was ranked excellent in her oral defense (2018). She explores kinesthesia, movement, kinesthetic empathy and 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. Her research interests include corporeal processes of consciousness, perception and agency, and embodied research-creation methodologies.
Ph.D. Communication, Concordia University聽(2019)
M.A. Gender and Equality, Jaume I University, Spain (2009)
B.A. Psychology, University of Murcia, Spain (1997)
Publications
Verificar la Existencia del Cuerpo: Conocimiento Kinest茅sico in Dickynson (ed.) Q1 Fine Arts. 2024.
鈥淓mbodied and Sensorial Methodologies Researching Performance: Kinesthetic Empathy鈥� in vol.7.2 (forthcoming) Special Issue on 鈥淓cologies of Embodiment鈥�. Journal of Embodied Research. Freely online via Open Library of Humanities. 2024.
. hexagram. reseau de recherche-cr茅ation en arts, cultures et technologies. 2023.
"" (Humanities MDPI Special Issue 12(6) 鈥淲ith-In Bodies: Research Assemblages of the Sensory and the Embodied鈥�) Freely online (open Access). 2023.
鈥溾��. Mart铆n, M.脕.; Vara, C.; Garc铆a-Guti茅rrez, C. Entropy 2023, 25, 711.
鈥溾�� in Arte y educaci贸n en contextos multidisciplinares (p. 854-869) Freely online (open Access). 2023.
"" [Heart Guts]. REJOINDER. Issue 7, Spring 2022.
"". Performance Research. Volume 26, Issue 1 鈥� On perception, 2021.
"". Performance Research. Volume 26, Issue 2 鈥� On (Un)Knowns, 2021.
". Germinal. Sobre l鈥檕bra de Fina Miralles. Documenta Universitaria (Girona). 2020.
Co-author (G谩mez Fuentes, M.J. and Vara, C.) 鈥淟enguajes y sexismo (SRM007)鈥� in Senent-Vidal, M.J & T茅llez Infantes, A. (eds.) Manual de Igualdad Efectiva de Mujeres y Hombres en el 脕mbito P煤blico y Privado. Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I. 2021.
"". Art and Identity Policies, 21, 96鈥�119, 2019.
Video and Performance
. Reencontres Interdisciplinaires. Agora du Coeur des Sciences. Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (UQAM) and hexagram. r茅seau de recherche-cr茅ation en arts, cultures et technologies. 2024.
鈥溾��. Pilot video for a (coming soon) documentary with filmmaker Iv贸 Vinuesa. 2023.
鈥溾�� at Poetics+Politics 4 University of California, Santa Cruz. 2019.
"" (Collaboration in Performance with Alexandra Rodes) at Museo Universitario de Alicante (MUA) (pages 36-39). 2019.
鈥溾�� at RUTGERS 鈥� Institute for Research on Women. 2016.
鈥溾��. 2016.
"(Collaboration in Performance with Alexandra Rodes). 2013.
"" at feral feminisms and RUTGERS-Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities. 2013.
Curatorial Projects
". Groupe Intervention Video (GIV) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). 2024.
"," MO(U)VEMENT(S) 鈥� HTMlles 2024 feminist festival of media arts and digital culture organized by Ada X - feminist artist-run centre (Montreal, Quebec, Canada).
鈥溾�� Centre d鈥檃rts Santa M貌nica 鈥� Barcelona (Catalonia). 2024.
鈥溾�� Centre d鈥檃rts Santa M貌nica 鈥� Barcelona (Catalonia). 2024.
鈥� Centro Cultural de Espa帽a en Santo Domingo CCESD (Dominican Republic). 2018. []
"鈥�. Feminist Media Studio 鈥� Communication Studies 鈥� Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). 2017.
Workshops and Embodied Methodologies
鈥溾�� Centre d鈥檃rts Santa M貌nica 鈥� Barcelona (Catalonia). 2024.
鈥淩e-orienting gestures, sensing relationally: a workshop to cultivate kinesthetic empathy鈥�. Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics. Centre for Sensory Studies. Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). 2023.
鈥溾��. ISEA2022 鈥� International Synmposium on Electronic Art. Barcelona (Catalonia). 2022.
鈥溾��. Uncommon Senses III Conference: Back to the future of the senses. Centre for Sensory Studies. Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). 2021.
鈥溾��. Centro Cultural de Espa帽a en Santo Domingo. Agencia Espa帽ola de Cooperaci贸n Internacional al Desarrollo. 2018.
- FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022-2024
- IVLA Deborah Curtis Artist Fellowship, 2024
- R茅QEF Appui Projets Scientifics, 2023-2024
- ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship, Fonds National Suisse (FNS), Universit茅 de Lausanne (UNIL), 2017
- Hexagram Research Creation Fellowship, 2016
- Rona and Robert Davis Fellowship, 2016
- Concordia University Merit Scholarship, 2014
- UJI Prize Award Gender and Research - Universitat Jaume I, 2014