Hanss Lujan Torres

Call for Submissions: The Land We Carry: Indigenous Technics Across Land, Body, and Digital Space, UAAC Panel Recognizing that we are composed of and inseparable from the earth, this panel invites contributions from artists, curators, and scholars working in and around media art and land-based practices to examine how technology and digital space can be reframed as sites of Indigenous presence, continuity, and intervention, foregrounding Indigenous techno-futurities as ongoing, materially grounded practices. This panel is chaired by Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers and Hanss Lujan Torres. It will be held at Concordia University from October 13-15, 2026. Deadline to apply: May 31 Link in bio for more information and to apply!

Some photos from the Queerer Times & Alternative Futures workshop 🕰️✨ We had a great time chatting about time, technology, Jose Esteban Muñoz and Heated Rivalry while making our collage calendars 😅 Thanks again to Dick’s Lending Library and everyone who participated ❤️

Registration is now open for the second workshop in our winter series, ✨Queerer Times and Alternative Futures✨ facilitated by Hanss Lujan Torres (@haannssl )! This workshop explores queer temporality and futurity through collective discussion and shared making. Rooted in 2SQTBIPOC lived and collective experiences, it engages broader timescapes to make sense of the “queerer” times we are all living through. Inspired by texts on temporality and futurity found in Dick’s Lending Library, the workshop invites participants to reflect on how futures are imagined when time is understood outside heteronormative, colonial, and linear frameworks. The workshop creates space for a generative conversation about how time is experienced, what constitutes the present, and what it means to imagine queer, trans, and nonbinary futures. Following the discussion, participants will engage in a hands-on collage and drawing activity, using images, texts, and materials to create their own clocks and calendars as speculative timekeeping devices for imagining and building possible futures. Materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring anything they'd like to include in their collages. Registration link in bio! Registration is limited to 15 participants. Workshop details: Date: Saturday, January 24th, 2026 Time: 3:00-6:00pm EST Where: Brique x Brique (633 Beaumont Ave) Cost: PWYC (w/ proceeds going to a mutual aid action for QT Disabled Black folks) RSVP required (space is limited) Facilitator Bio: Hanss Lujan Torres (he/him) is a researcher, writer, and curator from Cusco, Peru, currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. His research and writing explore various notions of time, particularly how artists reimagine it and reflect on the precarious conditions of the present. He works with subjugated archives and queer temporalities to imagine alternative futures. Access Info: - K/N95 masks required & provided - A large HEPA filter will be in the space. - Wheelchair-accessible - Fragrance-free - ASL interpretation available upon request (Cont. in comments)

🫧 Feeling thankful for community, shared moments, and all the ways time stretched, slipped, and surprised me. ✨ Grateful, humbled, and aware there’s still so much to learn. Carrying it forward into what comes next 🌀

Fun times at @info.celinebureau ❤️ Taking part in this summer residency was such a blast! I had the pleasure of meeting and befriending so many incredible artists, all while experimenting with my own writing. There’s something special about working out of a garage—the freedom, the gentler expectations, and the openness that allows for vulnerability, risk, and play. With the guidance of generous mentors and support of inspiring peers, it became a space charged with creativity. It’s been a joy to witness works evolve from start to finish, and be part of such a vibrant artistic community <3 BTW Celine is having a fundraising initiative at the end of the month! If you can, please support this vital space for artists in Montreal!

CE JEUDI / THIS THURSDAY 6pm Come listen to the 2025 writing residents read some texts they worked on this year with Sayaka Araniva-Yanez for Cigale publishing. RACHEL CHIN / JOHN BOYLE-SINGFIELD / HANSS LUJAN-TORRES Venez écouter les artistes en résidence d’écriture 2025 lire leurs textes créés suites aux ateliers donnés par Sayaka Araniva-Yanez pour les éditions cigales. Merci @revuecigale @conseilartsmtl

🌐 Résidences numériques | 𝗥𝗲: 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗿é𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘁 Dans le cadre de cette résidence numérique réalisée en collaboration avec Érudit, l’auteur et chercheur, 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘀 𝗟𝘂𝗷𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀 s’intéresse à la manière dont le temps est expérimenté et abordé dans l’art contemporain. En écho à une réflexion sur le présent rédigée il y a plus de dix ans, il emploie l’écriture épistolaire comme pratique temporelle et forme de voyage dans le temps, retraçant à travers les archives de la revue 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘦 l’évolution des discours sur le temps. « Chère Marie-Eve, Quelle drôle de coïncidence ! Durant ma résidence numérique, où j’avais proposé d’explorer les discours sur le temps dans l’art contemporain, je suis tombé sur ton article, “ Lettre sur le présent “, publié en 2014 à l’occasion du 30e anniversaire de 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘦. J’ai été ravi, mais nullement surpris, de voir des auteurs et autrices affronter les textures changeantes du temps, les angoisses qu’il suscite et l’intensité persistante du “ maintenant “. » ⤷ Lien en bio * 🌐 Digital Residencies | 𝗥𝗲: 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝘄 In this digital residency in collaboration with Érudit, writer and researcher 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘀 𝗟𝘂𝗷𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀 explores how time has been experienced and discussed in contemporary art. In responding to an earlier contemplation on the present, written over ten years ago, he employs letter writing as a temporal practice and form of time travel, tracing the evolving discourses on time throughout 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘦 magazine’s archives. 📸 : Muhammad Nour ElKhairy, I would like to visit, 2017, installation view, Plein Sud, centre d’exposition en art actuel, Longueuil, 2024. Photo: Guy L’Heureux

🌐 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 | Esse is pleased to announce the next residency in partnership with @eruditorg . 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘀 𝗟𝘂𝗷𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀 is a curator, researcher, writer, and arts worker from Cusco, Peru, currently based in Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. In his research and writing, he considers subjugated archives and queer temporalities in order to imagine alternative futures in contemporary art. “For this residency, Lujan Torres draws on the archives of Esse and Érudit to explore how concepts of time have been experienced, represented, and interrogated within recent contemporary-art discourses. He focuses on how artists, curators, and scholars make sense of the 'now' and engage with constructs of time and depictions of temporality to grasp shifts in technology, politics, and global events. More specifically, he is interested in artistic and textual projects that challenge conventional notions of chronology, linearity, history, and futurity. He investigates evolving portrayals of time across a variety of media, including durational, ephemeral, and permanent works, time-based practices, and recent exhibitions.” * 🌐 𝗥é𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝘂𝗺é𝗿𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 | Esse est ravie d’annoncer la prochaine résidence en collaboration avec Érudit. 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘀 𝗟𝘂𝗷𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀 est un commissaire, un chercheur, un écrivain et un travailleur culturel originaire de Cusco, au Pérou, vivant actuellement à Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Dans ses recherches et ses écrits, il se penche sur les archives subjuguées et les temporalités queers afin d'imaginer des avenirs alternatifs dans l'art contemporain.

I believe this was my first curatorial project 🌞 I made it to the Elementary Heritage Fair regionals with my little display on the Incas. My mom helped me make the outfits and dye doll hair with black shoe polish, and my aunt shipped llama and alpaca wool from Cusco. A full production 😅

Fragments from 2024 👋🏽 01 ‘Solstice,’ irregular, quartier des spectacles 02 ‘a boundless love,’ Shaya Ishaq
03 My avatar having a moment in Camille Turner’s ‘Pods for Dreaming’ 04 Solar Eclipse 2024 05 On the path of totality
06 Andean ceramics, including Moche stirrups and work by Kukuli Velarde at the Gardiner Museum 07 K Enters the Castle At Last, Malcolm McCormick 08 Corie’s birthday cake, cake bossed by moi 09 Happy birthday Corie! 10 ‘Dante’s Paradiso,’ Gustave Dore, 1868 11 Summer 2024 12 A lovely labyrinth Brit took me to 13 with Julie, on the sea side 14 ‘The Forty Part Motet,’ Janet Cardiff, conducted by my mother 15 maya’s birthday! 16 Todos Santos/Dia de los Muertos 17 12 hour trip to Toronto 18 English Bay, Vancouver 19 Clark and Beaubien, I think?

So excited to collaborate with @dork.fortress @puneet_idk and @ariseferiades on this year’s @milieux_institute expo! Link in bio for details 🌱 The Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology, located in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual members’ exhibition, which will take place from September 25 – 29, 2023, at Concordia’s 4th Space. Milieux is seeking submissions from active student and faculty members that engage with this year’s theme: The Commons. Members are invited to submit an individual or collective proposal to feature their creative work, including (but not limited to): visual art, audio projects, performance, presentations, written or text-based work, workshops, panel discussions, and more. Deadline to apply: Thursday, July 1st, 2023.

It’s always exciting when an exhibition ignites spark. I don’t really write reviews but I was so impacted by Maggy Hamel-Metsos’s work that I had to make sense of it in writing. I’m thrilled that this little reflection ended up in Esse magazine’s Family Issue. So grateful to @tungstenwarshields and @parc.offsite_elikerr for their generosity and kindness and @revueesse for giving it a home <3 Link in bio if you want to 👀 P.S. the number is still active if you want to have a listen: 1-888-332-5576 ☎️