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Mary Bunch

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Cinema & Media Arts

Mary Bunch


Associate Professor

bunch@yorku.ca

Accepting Graduate Students

Biography

Mary Bunch is an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University and Canada Research Chair in Critical Media Arts Ecologies. Her research develops socio-political concepts of transitional worldmaking through critical theory and media arts creation, informed by decolonizing, critical disability and queer frameworks. Her four-year SSHRC-funded projected Pluriveral Worlding with Extended Reality develops a methodology of transition worldmaking that engages ‘world’ as a frame of reality, as well as being a narrative and aesthetic element of media artworks. Bunch’s artworks, co-created with Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, have been exhibited at Nuit Blanche (2022), ImagineNative (2023), and the Aga Khan Museum (2024), and the United Nations Conference on Water (2023), among other venues. She is co-editor of a special issue on Access Aesthetics in the journal Public and has a monograph-in-progress titled Ecstatic Ethics. As co-director of the Peripheral Visions CoLab, Bunch’s collaborative and community-based practice convenes different ways of knowing, from theoretical scholarship and creative practice to lived experience and embodied perception.

Mary Bunch is only accepting new graduate students who are a strong fit with her research interests. She is particularly interested in working with students interested in critical theory that engages with feminist, decolonizing, queer and crip frameworks and the arts.

http://peripheralvisions.ca/
http://queercabaret.ca/