About



(english)
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. 


Email
Linkedin

(
french)
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.




Minga Suprabinaire

a performance by Javi Fuentes Bernal Javi Fuentes in collaboration with Jashim. 

February 19, 2025, PHI Foundation.



Pachakuti
Photo: Cuto Reed

Inspired by Minga, the Andean practice of collaborative work based on reciprocity, Minga Suprabinaire explores the fertile tensions within contamination, transtemporality, and ambiguously coexisting identities. Rooted in narratives of transgressive gender binaries and sexuality in Abya Yala (what many Indigenous people call the American continent), the work unfolds like una fiesta, an incarnation of vital forces that have escaped the context of reinforced boundaries.

Moving between food, ambient sound, and pre-Colombian vestiges imbued with sex-generic dissent, this performance depicts a sensorial, symbolic voyage through the porous spaces of otherness. Penetration, sharing, and digestion become acts of mobility, inviting us to imagine landscapes that celebrate escape and contradiction, while invoking ephemeral bridges toward the Pachakuti (a Quechua term meaning the transformation of the world of tomorrow).

Within this space, “impure” legacies, plural affiliations, and Indigenous and migratory memories come together to forge a shared resonance. This space invites us to chismosear (gossip) with Abya Yala’s queer/cuir transcestrality, and activate long-forgotten archives to reinvent relational systems. These new evocations bind human, non-human and indeterminate beings, offering powerful vehicles of escape from rigid taxonomic categories.

Credits
Music and Soundscapes: Jashim Rodriguez
Wardrobe and Styling: Laura Acosta / Julicore
Conceptual Development Support: Duen Neka’hen Sacchi / Alexis Amparo Viasus
Movement Coaching: Alejandro Penagos / Adriana Cubides
Newspaper Design: William Mora / David Diaz
Ceramics: Ossinissa Alfareria
Wig: Fabian Rojas
Dramaturgy: Santiago Tamayo Soler / Laura Acosta
Special Appearance and Contributions by: Yadila Bernal
Family Relics and Textiles: Bernal Family

This program was conceived and presented by PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation).


Biographies

Javi Fuentes Bernal
Javi Fuentes Bernal is a Colombian-born transdisciplinary artist, social worker and researcher based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. Their work is inspired by critical fabulations and archival practices at the intersection of trans*travesti and Indigenous thought. Through performance, video, installation, and writing, Javi explores mobility related affects and the links between memory, territory, and popular culture. Their practice fuses anticolonial and trans-affirmative approaches to self-knowledge, while questioning fugue identities and speculation around third places. In their work, the body is viewed as an anti-archival space, capable of permanently transforming memories, wounds and imaginations, whether they be individual or collective.

Recently, Javi was involved in developing exhibitions that explore themes such as gender diversity, migration, and Indigenous identities, notably Love Me Gender (Musée de la Civilisation, 2023), Awera en Bakatá (Museo Nacional de Colombia, 2024), and the permanent exhibition Le Québec autrement dit (Musée de la Civilisation, 2024). Their projects have been presented at 4th Space Concordia (Montréal, 2022), CDEx UQAM (Montréal, 2023), in magazines such as Mœbius (2023) and Caminando (2023), at Espacia (Bogotá, 2024), at RIPA (Montréal, 2024) and at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art (Colectiva Polea, Montréal, 2024).

As part of their research, Javi has benefitted from the support of several institutions, including the Centre de recherche en santé publique CReSP (2023), the  Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (2023) and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2024) for their PhD in Social Work (Université de Montréal).


Jashim Rodriguez
Colombian-born Jachim is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Montréal. As a vocalist, DJ and producer, their practice fuses Colombian identity, Indigenous roots, technology, and contemporary art. Their projects include interactive installations, virtual reality works, and musical compositions that address socio-political issues. They have contributed to major projects for Ubisoft, notably Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws. Active on the underground Latinx music scene, they have produced their music throughout the Americas, with notable performances at the Boiler Room, Mural, and Fierté Montréal. By combining immersive technologies and music, Jashim designs unique neo-surrealist experiences.