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Victoria Carrasco is a Chilean-Canadian curator of contemporary art and moving image, born in Montréal. From 2008 to 2025, she held curatorial, managerial, and leadership positions at PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art), where she played a key role in shaping the institution’s visitor experience strategy, developing internal professional growth initiatives, curating exhibitions, and expanding audiences by creating new exhibition formats of time-based media and performances programs.
Her curatorial practice is grounded in research and centers on practices in contemporary art, developed through close collaboration with artists. Her institutional experience reinforces an expertise of exhibition-making and the dynamics between artwork, space, and audience—emphasizing accessibility, engagement, and critical reflection. She remains attuned to the social, cultural, and spatial contexts in which art is produced and experienced, and is committed to its critical and transformative potential that lives on after outside of the art gallery setting.
Carrasco curated REMEMBER, PERFORM, FORGET: Binding Space Through Utopia - with Kerstin Honeit, The Society of Affective Archives, and Rodolfo Andaur in 2023, co-curated with Cheryl Sim, the exhibition Larry Achiampong: Relic Traveller in 2022, the performance Dora García: Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years in 2021, and have worked with international, national and local artists in Montreal and organizations on the presentation of screenings and performances, moderated roundtables, and hosted artist talks and podcasts.
Carrasco holds an MA in Performance Curation from the Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University, a BA in Environmental Design from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and a BFA with a Concentration in Photography from Concordia University. In 2019, she was awarded the Ford Foundation ICPP Leadership Fellowship by Wesleyan University. She is also co-editor of the bi-annual publication TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation and is on the Board of Directors of VIVA! Art Action and Centre des arts actuels SKOL.
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Née à Montréal, Victoria Carrasco est une commissaire canadienne d’origine chilienne. De 2008 à 2025, elle a occupé les postes de commissaire, de gestion et leadership à PHI (anciennement Fondation PHI pour l'art contemporain), où elle a joué un rôle clé dans l'élaboration de la stratégie d'expérience des visiteurs de l'institution, la création d'initiatives de développement professionnel interne, le commissariat d'expositions et l'élargissement des publics par le développement de nouveaux formats d'exposition de programmes de médias temporels et performances.
Sa pratique curatoriale est ancrée dans la recherche et se concentre sur les pratiques de l'art contemporain, développées en étroite collaboration avec des artistes. Son expérience institutionnelle renforce son expertise en réalisation d'expositions et la dynamique entre l'œuvre d'art, l'espace et le public, privilégiant l'accessibilité, l'engagement et la réflexion critique. Elle demeure à l'écoute des contextes sociaux, culturels et spatiaux dans lesquels l'art est produit et expérimenté, et s'attache à son potentiel critique et transformateur qui perdure au-delà du cadre des galeries d'art.
Carrasco a été commissaire de SE SOUVENIR, PERFORMER, OUBLIER: relier l’espace par l’utopie - avec Kerstin Honeit, La Société des archives affectives (Fiona Annis and Véronique La Perrière M) et Rodolfo Andaur en 2023, co-commissaire avec Cheryl Sim de l'exposition Larry Achiampong: L’explorateur de reliques en 2022 et de la performance Dora García: Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years en 2021. Elle a également collaboré avec des artistes et des organismes internationaux, nationaux et locaux à Montréal pour la présentation de projections et de performances, animé des tables rondes et animé des conférences et des balados.
Elle est titulaire d’une maîtrise en commissariat de la performance de l’Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) de l'Université Wesleyan, d’un baccalauréat en design de l’environnement de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) et d’un baccalauréat en beaux-arts avec concentration en photographie de l’Université Concordia. En 2019, l’Université Wesleyan lui a décerné la bourse de Leadership ICPP de la Fondation Ford. Elle est également co-éditrice de la publication semestrielle TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation et siège au conseil d'administration de VIVA! Art Action et du Centre des arts actuels SKOL.
REMEMBER, PERFORM, FORGET : Binding Space Through Utopia
with La Société des archives affectives, Kerstin Honeit and Rodolfo Andaur, and guests Álvaro Ramírez, Jacques Giraldeau, Jean Palardy, Patricia Dominguez, Jasmina Cibic, Alanis Obomsawin, Pilar Quinteros, Yutong Lin.
Exhibition, August 16 - 27, 2023
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Larry Achiampong: Relic Traveller
Exhibition, September 9 to January 9, 2022
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Dora García: Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years.
Exhibition, July 7 to August 1, 2021
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Sentient | Disobedient: about presence
Collectif B.L.U.S.H., Dédé Chen, Charline Dally, Ralitsa Doncheva, Julia E. Dyck, Lee Ingram, Joyce Joumaa, Rojin Shafiei, Florencia Sosa Rey, Laura Taler.
Video program, March 3-9 2025
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Minga Suprabinaire
a performance by Javi Fuentes Bernal Javi Fuentes in collaboration with Jashim.
February 19, 2025
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Stretching the Unison
a performance organized by Adam Kinner with Erin Hill, Naomi McCarroll-Butler and Frédérique Roy.
September. 4, 2024
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Sentient | Disobedient
A.K. Burns, Geneviève Cadieux, Ellen Cantor, Victoria Carrasco, Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Bettina Hoffmann, arkadi lavoie lachapelle, Ana Mendieta, Lynne Sachs, Aki Sasamoto, Luna Scales, Carolee Schneemann, Nina Vroemen.
Video program, August 26 - 29, 2024
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Aerial Skin
Yutong Lin, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Kent Monkman, Pedro Neves Marques, Kim Ninkuru, Jacolby Satterwhite.
Video Program and Performance, June 12 and 13, 2023
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Normal love
Jack Smith, live score by Jashim (I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo).
Outdoor video program and live score,
September 11, 2022
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FatherDaughter
a performance by Florencia Sosa Rey
August 31, 2022
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Acknowledging This Place
Kìzis, Meagan Musseau with Jenelle Duval, Michael Snow, Jacob Wren.
Video program and performances,
May 10, 2022
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Severing the Impact on Memory
Patricia Domínguez, Jean-Jacques Martinod, Lynne Sachs and Barbara Hammer.
Online video program,
June 19 - 26, 2021
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Diasporic Body
Javier Calvo, Marigold Santos, kimura byol-nathalie lemoine, Thanu Yakupitiyage, Susana Pilar.
Online video program,
November 13-20, 2020
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Fictional Revolutionary Leaders
Gloria Camiruaga, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.
Video program,
September 28, 2023
Popsicles by Gloria Camiruaga is a short video that was produced during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, which lasted from 1973 to 1990. A woman is depicted eating a popsicle, a gesture that is empowering and freeing against the backdrop of oppression, particularly as it was felt by women in a conservative country. Camiruaga’s short is followed by Oriana, which presents a fictional, yet close to reality, futuristic landscape where women are in positions of power after a natural disaster hits Puerto Rico. The sound and words immerse the viewer and support this new form of feminism proposed by Santiago Muñoz.
Program
• Popsicles, 1984, Gloria Camiruaga, 5 min
• Oriana, 2022, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 78 min, Spanish and Portuguese, English subtitles
This program was conceived and presented at PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation) in association with Film POP, POP Montreal International Music Festival.
This program was conceived and presented at PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation) in association with Film POP, POP Montreal International Music Festival.
Larry Achiampong: PAN AFRICAN FLAGS FOR THE RELIC TRAVELLERS’ ALLIANCE.
Public art project,
September 9 to January 1st, 2022
This public art project is an iteration of the PAN AFRICAN FLAGS FOR THE RELIC TRAVELLERS’ ALLIANCE series which, over the years, has taken on various forms of signage, such as flags and subway signs.
For this version in Montréal, the project takes the form of posters that can be found in the neighbourhoods of Little Burgundy, Saint-Henri, Saint-Michel, Montreal North, Park-Extension and Mile End.
The PAN AFRICAN FLAGS FOR THE RELIC TRAVELLERS' ALLIANCE (2017-2021) series explores a unique visual language created by Larry Achiampong to themes related to the African diasporic identity. The stars represent the fifty-four countries of Africa.The color green represents the Earth, black represents its people, and red represents the struggles the continent has gone through, while yellow anticipates a new future and prosperity for the Pan-African Union. While flags are usually used to represent and promote a national identity, Achiampong appropriates this form in an effort to unify nations.
This program was conceived and presented at PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation).
RASSEMBLEUR
Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira, Peter Hentschel, William Richardson, Takahiko Iimura, Rolls Rice, Jud Yalkut.
Video program, September 30, 2022.
RASSEMBLEUR is a film program based on the power of gathering, whether to be guided through a moment together or to protest. The selection of works presented in RASSEMBLEUR navigates power structures historically, through archives, performance documentation, as well as contemporary art videos.
Program
• Stand By Your Men (Live at The Painting Room), Rolls Rice, 2021, 2 min 47 s, English
• Kusama’s Self-Obliteration, Jud Yalkut, 1967, 24 min
Colossal Keepsake, Peter Hentschel and William Richardson, 1969, 16 min 9 s, English
• Flower, Takahiko Iimura, 1968-1969, 11 min
• JUCK [Thrust], Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira, 2017, 17 min 30 s, Swedish, English subtitles
This program was conceived and presented by PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation) in association with Film POP, POP Montreal International Music Festival, in conjunction with the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP TO THE UNIVERSE, from July 6, 2022 to January 15, 2023.
Yesterday, Thinking of Tomorrow
Gillian Dykeman, Larry Achiampong, David Blandy.
Video program, September 25, 2021
This screening reunites the works of Gillian Dykeman, Larry Achiampong, and long-term collaborator David Blandy. In Finding Fanon Trilogy, Larry Achiampong and David Blandy recount a disastrous past. In these films, the human condition is pieced together from personal narratives set in a fictive future. Inspired by the lost plays of Frantz Fanon, Achiampong and Blandy consider Fanon’s ideas and examine post-colonial politics, in order to understand how these societal issues affect their own relationship. In Dispatches from the Feminine Utopia, Gillian Dykeman experiments with the idea of a future feminist utopia led by major earthworks. In her fictive future, these earthworks play a part in alien technology, which guide us all into a feminist utopia.
Program
• Dispatches from the Feminine Utopia, Gillian Dykeman | Canada, 2016 | 8 m 44 s
• Moon, Gillian Dykeman│Canada, 2016 | 5 m 13 s
• Finding Fanon Trilogy Part One, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy | United Kingdom, 2015 | 15 m 21 s
• Finding Fanon Trilogy Part Two, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy | United Kingdom, 2015 | 9 m 13 s
• Finding Fanon Trilogy Part Three, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy | United Kingdom, 2016-2017 | 14 m
This program was conceived and presented by PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation) in association with Film POP, POP Montreal International Music Festival.
BLACK_GOLD_MIXTAPE by Larry Achiampong, live listening session online.
September 26, 2020, Audio Performance & Poster, 2020
Larry Achiampong’s BLACK_GOLD_MIXTAPE is an audio visual performance reflecting on our current context of the pandemic and social issues, through sounds, vocal testimonies and beats, resulting in different scores, ambiances and aesthetic sounds, extending past previous projects Meh Mogya and More Mogya.
The mixtape was shared online and the physical cover, through the making of a poster, was made available for purchase at the PHI Foundation. Proceeds from the sale of posters went to Hoodstock. Hoodstock generates dialogue and mobilising initiatives to eliminate systemic inequalities and develop united, safe and dynamic communities.
Poster by Zael Grace Rose-Achiampong & Larry Achiampong
This program was conceived and presented by PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation) in association with Film POP, POP Montreal International Music Festival and in conjunction with the exhibition RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, from July 8 to November 29, 2020,
Pinochet Porn
by Ellen Cantor
video program with introduction by Clara Lopez Menendez, February 20, 2019
Using her 2004 series of eighty-two drawings, Circus Lives from Hell, as an unconventional “script,” Cantor worked on Pinochet Porn for the last five years of her life. The feature-length, episodic narrative about the intertwined lives of five children and their maturation into adulthood would be completed posthumously by Ellen Cantor’s close collaborators, including her cast and crew, according to her directives.
Using Super 8mm film, archival video footage and digital animated drawings, Pinochet Porn takes the form of a soap opera, at once tragic and comic, marked by a subversive sexuality. Its story weaves between personal, political and historical circumstances, obliquely revolving around the political discord in Chile during the regime of General Augusto Pinochet. The film also documents an extended moment in New York and London avant-garde art and culture, featuring a range of artists, curators, writers, filmmakers, fixtures of the underground, musicians and their children.
Clara López Menéndez
Clara López Menéndez is an art worker practicing in the fields of curating, pedagogy, art criticism, and performance.
This program was conceived and presented by PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation) in conjunction to the exhibition Jasmina Cibic: Everything That You Desire and Nothing That You Fear, from October 25 to March 19, 2019.
Discwoman Amplify Each Other: Dj Haram at DHC/ART,
Live performance, August 30, 2018
DJ Haram performs a live composition that draws from a range of electronic music forms and artworks on display within the exhibition such as Kher’s "Virus IX" and "Cloudwalker".
DJ Haram is half of 700 Bliss with Moor Mother, who curates Philadelphia (f)LAWLESS nights, and issued the zine "Bros Fall Back". Stylistically versatile, she not only throws down for Jersey, Philly, and Baltimore with club and booty bounce sets but has also been known to pay homage to her roots in the tradition of Middle Eastern dance music in addition to DIY noise and experimental sounds.
About Discwoman
Founded by Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson and Christine McCharen-Tran, Discwoman is a New York-based platform, collective, and booking agency that showcases and represents talent in electronic music. Discwoman started as a two-day festival in September 2014 at Bossa Nova Civic Club; it has since produced and curated events in over fifteen cities and worked with over 250 DJs and producers to date.
http://soundcloud.com/djharam
http://discwoman.com
This program was conceived and presented at PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation), in conjunction with DHC/ART's exhibition "Points de départ, Points qui lient" by Bharti Kher and in collaboration with Discwoman.