she/they, migrant

Florencia Marchetti

Florencia Marchetti is a multimodal researcher, documentarian and ethnographer based in Montréal ~ Tiohtià:ke. With twenty plus years of experience as project facilitator, she has developed an experimentally driven and critically informed toolbox composed of playful techniques that foster collective assemblies through self-reflexive dialogical processes. She has been paddling against the currents of neurotypical time since the pandemic began, attempting to complete her doctoral dissertation while mothering a neurodivergent child and unmasking her own otherworldly traits in the process. Their doctoral work hones in on the atmospherics of terror produced by the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina, her home country, during their early childhood years (1976-1983). Part cultural study, part auto-ethnography, the thesis manuscript (in progress) provides an account of the experimental research-creation process through which the composition of resonant scenes emerged. Weaving photographic documentation with ethnographic and poetic writings that situate the multimodal narrative in precise corporal, geopolitical and generational coordinates, the manuscript pivots on the body of the ethnographer and the ecologies/ worldings (Manning) that shaped them, in order to provide an intersectional examination of the multiple points of impact and lasting effects of the dictatorial regime and its percepticidal machinery.