Mary Bunch

Mary Bunch co-led the Queer Summer Institute (QSI), offering the course THST 6350 Performing the Queer (Un)commons, as part of the QSI. 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 through critical theory and media arts creation, informed by queer, decolonizing, and critical disability 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 arts works.

Bunch’s artworks, co-created with Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, have 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.