Lorraine Doucet Sisto is a masters student of Art History at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where she previously completed a bachelor’s degree in Communications. Before assuming her current role as a research assistant for the Worlding Public Cultures project, she worked on various initiatives in the music industry and at a commercial art gallery. Through her ongoing research projects, she committed to centering Indigenous ways of knowing and creating as well as two-spirit and queer imaginaries, aesthetics and ethics. Informed by decolonial, transcultural and transnational perspectives, her research focuses on contemporary art and interdisciplinary artistic practices that are simultaneously poetic, political and critical of institutional and art historical frameworks. Lorraine is currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal on unceded Kanien'kehá:ka traditional territory, |