Sustainability as an art practice- With Diana Lopez Soto
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM
Airing Date: July 10, 2024
Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton
Assistant Production Manager: Amber Downie-Back
Featured Guest(s): Diana Lopez Soto
On this episode, multidisciplinary artist Diana Lopez Soto opens up about sustainability, and how culture, heritage, and relationship to earth inform her practice.
About Diana Lopez Soto:
Diana Lopez Soto is an award-winning multidisciplinary Mexican/Canadian artist, mother and land caretaker. She has presented and exhibited her work nationally and internationally in France, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, the USA and Canada. She produces and co-produces site-specific performances, vertical dance, art installations and experimental film. Her interest in sustainable practices inform the direction of her collaborations and offerings. Diana’s love for material, physics and body/space connections informs her rigging designs and structures, installations and sculptural sets that come to life through her movement explorations. In 2028 and 2019, thanks to the Canada Arts Council for the Arts, Diana participated in the Guapamacataro Art and Ecology residency, the Vancouver International Vertical Dance Summit and the ‘Ritual de las Aguadoras’ with the Tirindikua family from the Barrio de Santo Santiago Michoacan. Diana is co-creator of Land Embodiment Lab with Coman Poon, member of Vanguardia Dance Projects and collaborates with Hercinia Arts, Femme du Feu, Look Up Theatre and Victoria Mata.
📷Diana Lopez Soto by Vita Cooper
