Visual culture | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at 快播视频 Tue, 06 May 2025 20:21:23 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Gabriela A.K.I. Sealy /research/tubman/profile/gabriela-a-k-i-sealy/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:14:23 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=7679 Gabriela Sealy is a researcher, curator, and maker who works at the seams of memory, material, and care. Rooted in the textile traditions of the African diaspora, her work stitches together oral history, archival fragments, and creative practice to trace what survives and who carries it. She recently completed her MA in Art History and Visual Culture at 快播视频, where her Major Research Project, The Black Pollera: Stitches of Survival, Threads of Legacy, explored the pollera de Congo as both a garment and a living archive of Afro-Panamanian matriarchal knowledge.

Gabriela鈥檚 practice moves between storytelling and scholarship, threading the personal with the political. Guided by the hands of those who came before, she uses cloth not just as a medium, but as a method鈥攖o touch the past, to imagine otherwise, and to hold space for what has been passed down. A SSHRC-funded scholar, she brings her training in curatorial work, conservation, and cultural heritage to projects that honour community, creativity, and intergenerational legacy.

Keywords: Black feminist material culture, Afro-Caribbean textile traditions, Research-creation, Decolonial methodologies, Cultural memory, Embodied knowledge, Oral history, Diasporic storytelling, Textile as archive, Intergenerational care, Visual culture, Ancestral knowledge, Craft-based resistance, Community-engaged art, Afro-Panamanian identity

]]> Joe Konieczny /research/tubman/profile/joe-konieczny/ Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:29:26 +0000 /tubmandev/?post_type=profile&p=1881 Joe Konieczny is a writer, educator, and master鈥檚 student in the Art History and Visual Culture program at 快播视频. His research focuses primarily on the cultural history of the Swahili Coast, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial theory and archival epistemology. Joe鈥檚 thesis work focuses on emerging philosophies of representation in artist鈥檚 run centres on the continent, and the ways in which their affiliate staff and artists engage with a western academy and public that have resisted decolonization. Joe鈥檚 other writing has covered diverse topics, reflecting his numerous research interests. His peer-reviewed work includes analysis of the Kenyan-German performance artist Myriam Syowia Kyambi, a series of diatribes against apoliticism in academia, and a look at the curatorial legacy of Okwui Enwezor. Outside of the classroom, Joe works on curriculum at the Korean edu-tech company Ringle, where he is developing a series of advanced English language trainings for use by artistic professionals. He is the president of the Art History Graduate Students Association and the facilitator of a professional art writing group in the Toronto area.

Keywords: Visual culture; Swahili history; artist-run centres

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