Kamee arrives in the world today as an interdisciplinary artist, writer, producer, performer, organizer, caregiver, waitress, and witch. They were born into an Armenian family displaced from the SWANA region and grew up in an immigrant suburb of Toronto. Their work is steeped with relational and generative practices oriented towards ancestral reclamation, visionary fiction, and diasporic futurism.
They hold a BFA/BA in film and political science (Concordia University), an MA in expressive art therapy (European Graduate Institute), and an MA/PhD in Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco Psychologies (Pacifica Graduate Institute). Their doctoral research explored legacies of relational ontologies and ethics of care by diasporic-SWANA women and queers. They currently work as the creative strategist and communications manager at a global feminist movement-support organization called AWID, while collaborating with various companies and collectives including HyePhen Magazine, Armenian Creatives, SWANA Ancestral Hub, Dragomanserai and Oolik Productions.
Kamee has created, produced, toured, and presented a vast and interdisciplinary body of work that includes arts and storytelling workshops, visual and media art, staged and immersive performances, magazines, and films. Their theatre projects “Setting Bones” won the Vancouver New Play Prize and “Dear Armen” was published in the Q2Q anthology that received a Lambda Literary award. Their most recent film, an Armenian sci-fi short called “Transmission” premiered at BFI FLARE and screened at dozens of festivals. Kamee also produces documentaries with Oolik Productions, through which they’ve been supported by Sundance and premiered films at Visions du Réel and HotDocs. They’re literary alumni at VONA and Banff Center for Arts & Creativity, and recently received a Pushcart nomination for writing that was published in Mizna Magazine. Their projects have and continue to be supported by several local and national funding bodies across Canada, USA and Armenia. At present, their primary focus is developing a limited series script based on Ensouled, with several projects on the side and across disciplines.
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