Introducing Artist in Action fellows Karina Hurtado & Julián Gómez Londoño!

Karina (Kari) Hurtado-Ocampo, they/all pronouns

Kari is a cultural worker, multimedia artist and (screen)writer, tending to place-based and genre bending stories. Kari came into the movement as a youth producer with Global Action Project in 2004, where they grew into an educator, designing media programming with grassroots organizations and for public television. During this time, they also organized with housing, education, and anti-police brutality movements. In 2018, Kari founded macorina media, a small production company engaging artists with hyper-local to regional coalition work, including: Just Transition, Cancel Rent, Amazon Out of Queens, DC Tenant’s Strike, Emergency Response Planning, and Alternatives to Policing. They are currently co-editing an anthology in collaboration with Red Sugarcane Press, titled Latinas: Gender, Race & Class, Struggles in 21st Century USA and co-producing a feature-length documentary, Resisting Fort Apache, the Bronx. Patiperreando por el mundo, they still call Queens homebase.

Karina will document our convenings and gatherings with the aim of producing 3 short artistic meditations: visual time capsules of the workshops as they happen, this pivotal and contradictory movement moment, and the questions that are driving us to take collective action. Each short may also include fellows’ writings or performances, text, archival footage, music and voice over. Karina wants to center and document our bodies in communication and transformation, as they move their experiences through new information and into strategic action.

Julián Gómez Londoño

Born and raised in Colombia, member of MARACA BRUJA, Julián Gomez aka SONIDO MONARCA is a community organizer, composer, percussionist, vinyl collector and DJ that does music as a way of resistance to respectfully amplify afro-indigenous traditions and culture.

Julián will be working with the organizers and member leaders of our anchor partners to write poetry, songs and stories set to music and performance in a multimedia music program.