Emilia Beatriz
Emilia Beatriz (they/elle) is an artist and access worker from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, based in Glasgow. Informed by Aurora Levins Morales’ ‘historian as healer’ methodology, Emilia’s films weave historical and speculative narratives – grounded in oral history and community archiving – centering dreaming, action, and griefwork attuned to climate and place. Recent work includes the exhibition ‘In Dispersion / En la Dispersión, VISARTS, Maryland; the talk On Moss as Matter & Metaphor with Amelia Merced; Sappho’s Wake, a performance/reading for a wake: on mourning, marking and moving forward together with joy hosted by Birds of Paradise and San Alland; and ‘declarations on soil and honey’ exhibition CCA, Glasgow, 2019.
Filmography
Director:
A CROSSING: 1698-2003 (2023), a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation, (2019), conversación con ana elisa (2019), P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N (2014)
Collaborator:
House Made of Tin (dir. Raisa Kabir) (2020) – editor & integrated access
If From Every Tongue It Drips (dir. Sharlene Bamboat) (2022) – collaborator & integrated access