ARTIST-RESEARCHER
Dr. Tania Cañas is a Salvadoran-born artist-researcher who grew up on the unceded lands of the Boonwurrung and Wadawurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations in Naarm/Melbourne, so-called Australia. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation, Waipapa Taumata Rau/ University of Auckland, and a former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Western University, Canada.
Her interdisciplinary work explores performance, forced displacement, decoloniality, memory and community-led creative practices, with a particular focus on Salvadoran and Central American displacement. She is an Associate Editor of AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples and a member of the editorial team of Global Performance Studies.