BIOS

Emilio Rojas was born in Mexico City, (ca.1985) he is an multidisciplinary artist,  working primarily in performance, film, video, photography, installation, and sculpture. His works explore the relation between the artist and his audience, interacting and exchanging roles, while involving the communities
that surround the spaces he engages with. The intrinsic relation with the body has been both his subject matter and medium. Exploring the mental and physical limits of his being, Emilio re-evaluates language, gender, activism, traditions, identity, ritual, displacement, migration and sexuality.  He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University in Film Video and Integrated Media and is currently living in Vancouver, Canada. His work has been  exhibited in United States, Mexico, Canada, Austria, England, Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Australia.  Rojas also participated at the 54th Venice Biennale as part of the Pirate Camp: Stateless Pavilion, a residency program for young international artists. This Summer he was selected to be part of the Botin Foundation Residency program led by artist Tacita Dean in Santander, Spain. Besides his artistic practice, Emilio is also a yoga teacher, translator,  community activist, hate destroyer and anti-oppresion facilitator with Migrant and Queer Youth.

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Jeremy Lee Harris is a musician, composer, and performance artist whose works embrace the repurposing of tradition and genre. As a classical pianist, he has been a featured soloist with the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra and under the baton of David Delta Gier, and will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in autumn 2013 as the winner of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Young Artist Competition. He has performed in master classes with Jacques Despres (University of Alberta), Logan Skelton (University of Michigan), and Nelita True (Eastman School of Music).  Harris performs experimental pop as Changement, combining piano balladry from the singer/songwriter tradition with processed sounds, manipulated ambient noise, and looped beats chiseled from found objects to create a dark, electric, lo-fi soundscape. He is a member of The Village Tricycle, a queer circus-cabaret band and performance project focusing on the blend of the sacred and profane in song narrative. Harris's recorded works can be found at: http://changement.bandcamp.com and http://thevillagetricycle.bandcamp.com.


Tiffany Holland was involed in the Occupy GSO Movement as well as other non-profits which have formed out of the movement. She has an M.A. from UNCG , and its a Doctoral Student in History  at Duke University, researching African American History.  She and her partner appear in the film.


Maria Rosales is Tiffany´s partner for 13 years. Maria is a Chair, Associate Professor of Political Science at Guilford College. She has a B.A. California State University, Stanislaus and M.A., Ph.D. University of California Berkeley.  She and her partner appear in the film. 

Sarah Dorsey is the Head of the UNCG music School Library for 15 years. Her area of specialization is music and she is also the dance liaison librarian. She has a M.A. in Music from Boston University.