• Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Performance | Brendan Fernandes: Noise See

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Noise See is a performance work by Canadian visual artist and choreographer Brendan Fernandes. Originally commissioned by The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, the work explores themes of visibility, protest, the legacy of empire, and embodied resistance.Central to the performance are vibrant quilted tapestry costumes that evoke textiles commonly associated with contemporary Maasai culture...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • The Bookshop at Esker: Emerging Writers’ Cafe

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Hosted by The Bookshop at Esker in collaboration with the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Youth Committee.The Emerging Writers’ Café is a quarterly meet-up for local emerging writers of all genres to develop projects and ideas. Share your work, practice giving and receiving feedback, access...

  • Bring the Baby Art Tour & Tummy Time

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Introduce your baby to art during this relaxed gallery tour for babies, parents, and caregivers. After the tour, babies can enjoy tummy-time play on artist Yvonne Mullock’s interactive sensory blankets, created especially for them.The gallery welcomes babies year-round. If the program is sold out, families are welcome to visit another time and enjoy the gallery’s...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Behind The Scenes Exhibitions Tour

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Join Curator Elizabeth Diggon and Head Preparator Doug Haslam for a behind-the-scenes tour to learn about the work that goes into curating and installing our exhibitions.

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Create Together – Dec 12

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    These workshops encourage curiosity and playful engagement with new ideas, materials, and art forms. We invite you to experience the themes of our exhibitions through collaborative art making and shared creative experiences. Connect, make memories, and Create Together!Parents or guardians will participate for the duration of the program. All materials will be provided.Registration essential. Recommended...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...

  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...

  • Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...