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Vanessa Terán Collantes is a socially engaged artist and visual anthropologist from Ecuador.
A teacher in the Photography Minor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.
She works with photography, video, and oral history through collaborative, community-centered practices that explore belonging, migration, and territory.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University, where she is co-supervised by David Howes and Luis Carlos Sotelo. Her research builds on Sucúa Haven, a ethnofiction project created with Ecuadorian migrants in Connecticut during her 2023 Mellon Artist and Practitioner Fellowship at Yale. Influence by Boal, this project, participants staged memories, alternative lives, and imagined futures to reflect on transnational experiences of place-making.
At Concordia, Vanessa expands this work through the anthropology of the senses and deepening its exploration with performance, oral history and the anthropology of the imagination.
