尤物视频

Aram Bajakian

Sessional Instructor: Music & Sound

E: aram_bajakian@sfu.ca

The music of guitarist and composer Aram Bajakian music has been called 鈥渁 masterpiece鈥� (fRoots), 鈥渟hape-shifting鈥� (FreeJazzCollective), and 鈥渟ometimes delicate, sometimes punishing鈥� (Chicago Reader). As a guitarist, 鈥渢he virtuosic jack of all trades鈥� (Village Voice) has toured extensively with Lou Reed, Madeleine Peyroux, John Zorn and Diana Krall. From 2018-2021, Bajakian served as the New Music Curator at Western Front in Vancouver, one of Canada鈥檚 leading artist-run centers for contemporary art and new music. Bajakian received his Bachelor of Music degree (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he studied with Dr. Yusef Lateef. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and Master of Music degree in Music Composition from the University of British Columbia. He is currently a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, where his advisor is Dr. Nathan Hesselink. His research focuses on contemporary and historic Armenian communities.

Dorothy Barenscott

Sessional Instructor: Visual Art

E: dorothy_barenscott@sfu.ca

Dorothy Barenscott is an art historian whose research relates to the interplay between urban space and emerging technology and media forms in the articulation of a range of identities. She completed her Ph.D. in Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia. Barenscott鈥檚 recent publications include "Learning from Las Vegas Redux: Steve Wynn and the New Business of Art鈥� appearing in Spatial Transgressions in the Arts (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) and  鈥淭rumpism, NFTs, and the Cultural Politics of 21st Century Kitsch鈥� appearing in the edited collection Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism (eds. Natalie Phillips and Grant Hamming, Routledge, 2024). Barenscott is co-editor of Canadian Culinary Imaginations (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2020), an interdisciplinary collection that explores how Canadian writers, artists, academics, cooks, performers, and gallery curators are inspired and challenged by the topic of food and her essays have appeared in journals such as Postmodern Culture Journal, Invisible Culture, History and Memory, and Mediascape. Outside of her academic research, Barenscott acts as an art consultant for ArtRow and Openwork Art Advisory and leads interdisciplinary university student groups on field schools to global art cities and art events such as Documenta and the Venice Biennale.

Nicole Bond

Sessional Instructor: Dance

E: nbond@sfu.ca

Nicole Rose Bond began her formal training at York University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Dance cum laude in 2005. Since that time, Nicole has felt privileged to perform works by many esteemed choreographers including Peggy Baker, Patricia Beatty, Tom Brouillette, Susan Cash, Bill Coleman, David Earle, Danny Grossman, Ryan Graham Hinds, Christopher House, James Kudelka, Learie McNicholl, Andrea Nann, Yvonne Ng, John Oswald, Peter Quanz, Peter Randazzo and Andrea Spaziani. She is currently a company member with Peggy Baker Dance Projects as well as a freelance artist.

As a teacher, Nicole has had the pleasure of working as a course director in Graham Technique and Contemporary Dance at York University, The National Ballet School, Arts Umbrella and Modus Operandi and has taught dance classes and workshops within the Toronto District School Board. As part of outreach initiatives through Toronto Dance Theatre, The National Ballet of Canada鈥檚 YOU Dance Program and Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Nicole has taught in Toronto, Dryden, Vancouver, Moncton and Whitehorse. Nicole has also served on the Toronto Arts Council Advisory Panel and as a member of the Dance Collection Danse 鈥楨ncore: Hall of Fame鈥� Committee.

Nicole鈥檚 repertoire with Peggy Baker Dance projects includes: Land|Body|Breath at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in August of 2017; the premiere in Toronto of Who We Are In The Dark and subsequent performances in Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa, Whitehorse and Mexico in 2019 and The Netherlands in 2020, Her Body As Words in September of 2021; and Peggy Baker: A Gala Retrospective in Toronto in 2022.

Through her work as both a performer and a teacher, Nicole鈥檚 goal is to empower others to effect conscious change in the world whilst honouring those who have come before us. Nicole is beyond grateful that her vocation encompasses doing what she loves and is humbled by, and indebted to, the unique and beautiful arts community that she calls home.

Alison Denham

Sessional Instructor: Dance

E: denham_alison@sfu.ca

Originally from the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Alison Denham moved to Vancouver to attend the dance program at Arts Umbrella and the Ballet British Columbia Mentor Program. From 2000 through 2005 she danced with Toronto鈥檚 Dancemakers under the artistic direction of Serge Bennathan. Ali has worked with many choreographers in Toronto and Vancouver including Wen Wei Wang, Alvin Erasga Tolentino, Lola MacLaughlin and Peggy Baker, among others. She is the 2006 recipient of the Isadora Award for Excellence in Performance. Ali is currently involved in new creations with Out Innerspace Dance Theatre (Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond), Simone Orlando, The Plastic Orchid Factory (James Gnam), and Tribal Crackling Wind (Peter Chin).

Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd

Sessional Instructor: Dance

Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd is a half-filipino b-boy and an enthusiast of all things rhythmic and expressive. Seeking to emulate the aberrant creativity emerging from the growing Vancouver street dance scene, Sevrin鈥檚 approach to dance is characterized by a rigorous attention to musical details and an embrace of movements uncommonly explored in breaking. He is an active member of the Vancouver street dance community, eager to play a role in building what is quickly becoming a prominent force in the local art scene. He has organized a number of youth-oriented street dance battles with the City of Surrey and has worked with various non-profit organizations that seek to support emerging Canadian dance artists. Sevrin has also participated in a wide range of international street dance competitions ranging from Amsterdam to Tokyo. He is an active member of the Now Or Never Crew, Scndrlz and Think Twice Japan

photo credit: Shawn Kim

Emmalena Fredriksson

Sessional Instructor: Dance

E: emmalena_fredriksson@sfu.ca

Emmalena Fredriksson is a contemporary dance artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada, as a guest on the ancestral unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples. 

Her practice is defined by choreography as a relational practice in the expanded fields of dance, often collaborating with artists of other disciplines, creating choreographic experiences and dance for social events, film, galleries and performance.  

Born in Sweden, she received her training at Balettakademien in Umea虋 and at SEAD in Austria. Emmalena has presented choreographic work, performed and taught internationally with Daghdha Dance Company (IE), Canaldanse (FR), Malta University (MT), Pact Zollverein (DE), and Falmouth University (UK) among others.

Based in Vancouver since 2013 her work has been presented in Dancing on the Edge, The Dance Centre's Discover Dance Series, Dance in Vancouver's Choreography Walk (curated by Justine A. Chambers), Dance Days (Victoria) and at the Audain Gallery. Commissioned by the National Film Board, she co-created Tidal Traces 鈥� a VR 360 dance film together with Nancy Lee in 2017. The film has to date had over 35 international screenings.

Emmalena holds an MFA degree from 尤物视频 and she regularly teaches at Modus Operandi, Training Society of Vancouver, Harbour Dance Centre and 尤物视频 in Vancouver.

Lisa Gelley

Sessional Instructor: Dance

E: lisa_gelley@sfu.ca

Lisa Mariko Gelley (she/her) is an artist working in dance and performance, often in interdisciplinary and intergenerational collaboration. She is a mixed-race settler of Japanese, French, and Polish descent, living, working, and learning on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish), and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Lisa is Artistic Co-Director of Company 605, an arts organization devising, producing and presenting new dance projects, and centering collaborative processes rooted in community. Together with Artistic Co-Director Josh Martin, they have co-created many works including Inheritor Recordings, Future Futures, Vital Few, Anthem, Loop,Lull, After We Glow, Looping, and lossy. Their works have been presented internationally, at venues and festivals including  American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), New York City Center鈥檚 Fall for Dance Festival, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, The Cultch, Usine-C and L'Agora de la Danse (Montr茅al), La Rotonde (Qu茅bec City), DanceWorks (Toronto), Live Art Dance (Halifax), The Banff Centre, On The Boards' NWNW and Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Festival PRISMA (Panama), Festival Parentesis (Costa Rica), Tempel Kulturzentrum and Regensburger TanzTage (Germany), and the Sydney Festival (Australia). Through their work, Company 605 has built bridges with artists and audiences across the country and Internationally, reaching outward to connect and situate itself within the context of a global dance dialogue.

Some of Lisa's own recent works are centered around intergenerational intuition and ancestral memory, including MIDORI (EDAM Choreographic Series and The Polygon Gallery) Furusato, a film featuring a duet with her grandmother, Lily Yuriko Tamoto, and Paueru Mashup, a community-engaged work calling on traditional Japanese Folk dance and renowned exercise routines, commissioned by the Powell Street Festival. Lisa is the recipient of the 2015 Vancouver International Dance Festival Choreographic Award, and the co-recipient of the 2024 Lola Award. She is the mother of Loa Mayuri and Noemi Yuka.

Sustrisno Hartana

Sessional Instructor: Music & Sound

E: sutrisno_hartana@sfu.ca

Sutrisno Hartana, master of Javanese gamelan music, and shadow puppets, performs internationally throughout Asia, Europe, and North America in both traditional and contemporary works. Mr. Hartana attended the Indonesian Dance Conservatory in Java and received his BA in 1992 from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) in Yogyakarta. In 2004, the King of Paku Alaman garnered him the title Mas Lurah Lebda Swara making him a court musician at the Royal Palace in Java. Mr. Hartana holds his MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of British Columbia and completed a PhD at the University of Victoria in the interdisciplinary program. He also directs and teaches gamelan with Victoria鈥檚 Busy Island Gamelan

Josh Hite

Sessional Instructor: Theatre & Performance

E: jhiteecu@sfu.ca

Josh Hite works with video, animation, sound, and photography, often creating reorganized archives of particular spaces or behaviours, either through his own recordings or by appropriating content through sites like YouTube. Leaning more on an ethnography that acknowledges content as a driving force, his practice considers tactics for documentation as a determinant of eventual form, rather than using art historical or cultural references as structural assistants. Projects tend to query relationships between an experience and its location, the power dynamics at play, and the ways in which transitions and sequencing propel us through time.

Matt Horrigan

Sessional Instructor: Production & Design

E: matthew_horrigan@sfu.ca

Matthew Horrigan is a researcher studying audiovisual production cultures, currently dissertating about the movie business of Hollywood North. Matt completed a B.Mus at McGill, an MFA and PhD at SFU, a few years as an independent sound artist, and some below-the-line work in the film & television industry. You can find Matt's writing in venues such as Sound Studies, Game Studies, and M/C Journal.

In leisure Matt enjoys observing insects and turtles, especially from a canoe.

Yani Kong

Sessional Instructor: Visual Art

E: yani_kong@sfu.ca

Yani Kong is a writer, editor, and scholar of contemporary art in Vancouver, Canada. She has recently published essays for the Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation, Vancouver BC, the Freedman Gallery, Reading PA, and is a regular contributor to Galleries West as well as multiple national and international publication.  She is SSHRC Doctoral Fellow of Contemporary Art at the School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA), 尤物视频, researching reception aesthetics and contemporary art history. As a member of the Low Carbon Research Methods Working Group, she explores sustainable practices in streaming media. Kong is a faculty member in the department of art history and religious studies at Langara College and the BC and Yukon Representative for the Universities Arts Association Congress (UAAC-AAUC).

Tatiana Mellema

Sessional Instructor: Visual Art

E: tmellern@sfu.ca

Tatiana Mellema is a curator, writer, and PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of British Columbia. Mellema has worked for the City of Vancouver (Public Art), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, The Banff Centre, The Power Plant, and the National Gallery of Canada.

Ang茅lica P茅rez Azures

Sessional Instructor: Film

E: aperezan@sfu.ca

Ang茅lica P茅rez Azures is a Cinematographer born and raised in Mexico City, now based in Vancouver.

Daisy Thompson

Term Instructor: Dance

E: daisyt@sfu.ca

Daisy Thompson is an English settler living on the unceded territories of the Skwxw煤7mesh, S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta涩 and x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m Nations, also known as Vancovuer. As a dance artist who performs, creates, educates, and writes, she seeks to extend ideas of the dancing body as a key site for the questioning of embodied power relations, and considers how the dancing body interrupts cycles of contemporary logics of control in relation to culture and identity.

After completing her dance training at the Laban Dance Centre in London, Daisy has had the fortune to work as dancer/performer with the Trisha Brown Dance Company (USA), Eva Karczag (Amsterdam), Emmalena Fredriksson (Sweden/Vancouver), Ugo Dehaes (Belgium), Lee, Su-Feh (Vancouver), Mascall Dance (Vancouver), and O鈥檇ela Arts (Vancouver), amongst more.

She has presented her own choreographic works internationally and locally, has worked as choreographer/movement coach for theatre including The Frank Theatre Company and Ruby Slippers Theatre, published several articles including the Performance Matters Journal and the Canadian Theatre Review, and regularly teaches in a variety of spaces in Vancouver, including 尤物视频, Training Society of Vancouver, WeDance and Polymer Dance. In 2013, she gained an MFA, and is currently a PhD student at 尤物视频 under the excellent co-supervision of Dr. Peter Dickinson and Dr. Laura U. Marks.

Daisy is the proud mother of Obi and Sola.

Neil Wedman

Sessional Instructor: Visual Art

E: nwedman@sfu.ca

Neil Wedman was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1954. Making paintings stands at the core of thirty years of studio practice, but he has devoted almost equal attention to producing drawings and works on paper including print editions, book-works and photographs. He has also made a number of short films and musical recordings although not many of the latter.

He lives and works in Vancouver and is represented there by the Equinox Gallery.