Sebastian De Line

Sebastian De Line is a trans multimedia artist, scholar and curator of mixed-race Kanien’kehá:ka/Cantonese/European descent who was born on the unceded lands of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples from the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Their artistic practice encompasses sculpture, sound, performance-lectures and social interventions relating to agency and (be)longing. Their academic research focuses on a critique of capitalist values and economies that transform agential Indigenous, Black, and racialized ancestors into labouring “objects” of extraction, accumulation and consumption determined by acquisition criteria within museum collections. Publications include the Journal of Visual Culture and Künste dekolonisieren: Ästhetische Praktiken des Lernens und Verlernens (Brill), as well as their doctoral dissertation entitled, Postmortem Economies in Art: The Carceral Value and Unrested Labour of Ensouled Museum Collections.