Xavi Burgos is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, organizer, and educator from New York City and Chicago, currently completing a PhD in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Contact: xavierluisburgos@gmail.com
Check out: My Writings / My Art
C.V. (Abbreviated)
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. student at Stanford University | Graduate School of Education | September 2021- Present
Bachelor of Arts, Northeastern Illinois University | Sociology / Latino and Latin American Studies | May 2012
RESEARCH FOCUS:
I currently research African diasporic religions and their communities across the Americas, particularly the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States.
ART MEDIUMS:
Performance | Installation | Video | Poetry | Essay | Mixed Media
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS:
Graduate Scholar-in-Residence | El Centro Chicano y Latino | Stanford University | September 2023-Present
Artist-in-Residence at Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil | Institute for Diversity in the Arts/ Black Committee on Performing Arts | July-August 2023
Principal Investigator | Tinker Graduate Field Research Grant | Stanford University | July-August 2022
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Academy of Religion | National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures
RECENT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS (Academic):
Accepted Panelist presenting a pre-print paper for the Womanist/ Pan-African Unit at the American Academy of Religion, Western Region Conference | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | March 17, 2024
Invited Speaker for “Well, God Come Black”: Afro-Atlantic Religious Systems and The Black Divine | Stanford University | November 14, 2023
Invited Respondent for “Faith in Blackness” Film Screening and Discussion | Stanford University | November 2, 2023
Co-organizer for the symposium: “Caribbean Epistemologies” and moderator for panel “Thinking through Hispaniola” | Stanford University | May 17-18, 2023
Founder/ Curator/ Host of “Caribbean Revelations” speaker series | Stanford University | April-May 2023
Invited Speaker for “Caribbean Questions” course | Stanford University | March 2, 2023
Invited Lecturer for “Class Act Aesthetics” | Department of Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | October 6, 2022
Invited Lecturer for “Black & Spiritual” speaker series | Stanford University | February 9, 2023
Co-Curator of the symposium: “The Queer Caribbean: Inheritances, Embodiments, and Possibilities” and curator and moderator for the panel “Queer Performance Practices in Puerto Rico & Its Diaspora” | Stanford University | May 20, 2022
Co-Founder/ Curator / Host of the “Hemispheric Racializations” speaker series | Stanford University | February-May 2022
Co-Founder/ Curator / Host of the symposium: “Afrorriqueñes: Affirmation, Solidarity, and Healing” | Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, Chicago | May 24 – 28, 2021
Invited Speaker for “Rompiendo Prejuicios: afrolatinos y la identidad negra en la diáspora” | Univisión Chicago | July 7, 2020
RECENT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS (ARTISTIC):
Featured in the exhibition “entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico” | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | August 19, 2023-May 5, 2024 | Que Ondee Sola magazine (November 2007) edition I edited, wrote for, and designed; and my “Fíjate” column in La Voz del Paseo Boricua newspaper (June 2006)
Featured Poet for “Speaking Axolotl: A Chicanx/ Latinx Literary Series y Open Mic” | San Francisco, CA | May 18, 2023
Invited Poet for Mission Arts Performance Project | San Francisco, CA | April 1, 2023
Invited Poet for Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore’s “Poetry in the Window” series | San Francisco, CA | January 29, 2023
WRITING & PUBLISHING:
“Dominicanidades in Motion, with artist Raelis Vasquez” | Intervenxions | New York University’s The Latinx Project | September 29, 2023
Co-Founder / Editor-in-Chief/ Chief Designer | La Respuesta magazine | June 2013-April 2018
Editor-in-Chief and Chief Designer | Que Ondee Sola magazine | January 2006-December 2010
Published creative nonfiction, opinion, and journalism in Gozamos, Claridad, and 80 Grados, among others. Read a selection, here.
ARTISTIC & SCHOLARLY EXPLORATIONS:
Scholarly curiosities include: visual and performance art | political theory | embodied religious knowledges | Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies | ancestor veneration | social movements | popular educational projects | (settler) colonialism and nationalism | politics of memory and pedagogies of remembrance | politics of space | religious material cultures
Methodological interests include: indigenous, black, queer, feminist, chicanx, and latinx | ethnography
Art practice curiosities: the sanctification of space and the body \ the politics of diaspora \ Nuyorican histories \ political didactics \ impermanence as a method \ Dominican martyrdom
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