Collaborative Workshops & Installations
Sunday, May 12, 2024, from 1 PM to 6 PM. In person at articule.
The event will be conducted in French, with ASL and LSQ interpretation available on site.
Recharging zone open during the day.
Intimate explorations and relational deepenings of the politics, poetry, powers and economics of our everyday life prosthetics.
— Participatory workshops, performances and installations
As part of the HTMlles Festival, À nos prothèses (To our prosthetics) collective is organizing a series of workshops, rituals, participatory installations and projections to create a convivial atmosphere around our needs, our refusals, our memories and our stories of prosthetics.
PROGRAM
1 - 1:45 PM + Opening: Circle of needs
2 - 2:45 PM Workshop 1: Collective Dentistry (to make your own dentures) by Goldjian Charlo /Anne Goldenberg;
3 - 3:45 PM Workshop 2: Formes de reliance (a puppet/object theater workshop with our personal dentures) by Steve Day;
4 - 5 PM Screening: Archives vivantes (screening of a deaf film by Émilie Peltier where audio description will be facilitated by participants).
5:15 - 6 PM Closing: Prosthetic/Prophetic Circle
+ At all times
Installation: The prosthetic dream carrier (a participatory installation to suspend prosthetic dreams, with Braille translation by Denise Beaudry.);
Acoustic buffer zone and collections of prosthetic stories (with Vytautas Bučionis) + audio montage of prosthetic stories (8 min);
Recharging zone – a quiet, restful place ‘out of the world’.
To Our Prosthetics - HTMLLES Festival
ASL Video by Seeing Voices Montreal - @seeing.voices.montreal
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Activities will take place mainly in French, with whispered translation into English, and interpretation into LSQ and ASL. articule is accessible to people with reduced mobility and is close to Beaubien and Rosemont metros. The latter has an elevator.
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À nos prothèses is a collective project that questions relations of intimacy, conviviality, dispossession and (in)accessibility to our ‘ordinary’ prostheses. The collective is organizing a series of workshops, participatory installations, projections and rituals around our needs, our refusals, our memories and our stories of prosthetics. Prostheses are physical, digital, urban or sensory extensions that allow us to complete, extend and adjust our being to ourselves and our being together. Prostheses can be material (hearing aids, canes, glasses, dental prostheses, etc.), digital or urban (access ramps). This project is concerned with ordinary prostheses and claims solidary approaches in the sense of Donna Haraway (Cyborg Manifesto), Crip solidarities (Mia Mingus, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha), CRIP Art and feminist, queer, Crip and Cyborg interconnections (Alison Kafe, Mallory Kay Nelson, Ashley Shew, Bethany Stevens.).
Goldjian Charlo (anne goldenberg) is a queer, psychodivergent artist who immigrated from France in 2004 and nourishes roots and emotional ties on the island of Tio’tia:ke, colonially known as Montreal. As a curator, relational artist and feminist, transdisciplinary hacktivist, he likes to make visible, legible and malleable the processes of co-construction of wisdom and knowledge. Goldjian is particularly interested in the interdependencies between humans, ecologies and technologies. Her work creates intimate spaces dedicated to mutual learning and the slowing down of processes. Co-founder of Femhack and Hackingwithcare, Goldjian embraces media and land art, installation, dance and video. Her practice most often revolves around the facilitation of collaborative, collective and restorative practices. Goldjian cares for and practices connection to the self, to spaces of time, to other humans and to non-humans, questioning the conditions of connection, care and disconnection to activate this quality of presence.
Émilie Peltier After living in several countries, Emilie Peltier settled in New Brunswick in 2012. With a degree in language and communication sciences, she works in the associative and cultural sectors, while living by her usual leitmotiv: observing the life around her and exploring the senses and the arts. Photography, cinema, writing, printing techniques, Emilie is self-taught alongside her professional activities. As her deafness influences her relationship with the world, she is drawn to visual and aesthetic projects, often guided by a militant instinct, that explore perceptions, the strange and the links we maintain with each other. She has taken part in the Media Arts section of the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA) on several occasions, where she tried her hand at both Super 8 and digital. In 2019, she is co-directing the short fiction film 54 North, inspired by the growing number of women in vulnerable situations on the streets of Moncton. In the summer of 2020, based on texts by Mo Bolduc, she will direct Matin Ecchymose, an experimental film combining poetry and queerness, in French, Quebec sign language and lip-reading. In 2021, she will continue this adventure by co-directing a medium-length documentary, a road trip to discover the diversity of deaf people. Since moving to Montreal, Emilie has been taking a course on disability at UQAM, getting involved in various organizations while continuing her exploration of identity and art.
Denise Beaudry Denise’s background is steeped in a passion for human relationships and music. A social worker in the healthcare system, she had the opportunity to lead group workshops in musical creativity following training in the Music for People program in the United States (2008-2012). This approach aims to encourage the discovery of the artist at the heart of each individual, whether professional, amateur or with no musical knowledge at all. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in social work, a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in careerology, she is the mother of four daughters, retired and visually impaired. In musical creativity, the goal is to live in the moment by exploring the sounds of various instruments. Expressing ourselves through a language unique to each of us, our senses, breathing, relaxation, silence and listening can awaken renewed energy.
Vytautas Bučionis Born in Lithuania, Vytautas went blind at the age of two as a result of retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor. In the hope of offering him a better future, his family immigrated to Canada a few years later. From an early age, he took refuge in music, a world in which he could easily recreate images for himself. His love of sounds and textures is such that, at just eight years of age, his talent as a pianist is already undeniable. In addition to performing in various musical groups, in 2018, at the age of 32, Vytautas obtained a master’s degree in composition from the Faculté de musique de Montréal. He collects the sounds of nature and birds. For Vytautas, beauty is everywhere, as long as you don’t want to hide it.
Steve Day Steve Day is a multidisciplinary artist: playwright, puppeteer, clown and theater actor. He is a graduate of the École Philippe Gaulier and is currently studying puppetry full-time at the École Supérieure de Théâtre de l’UQAM. Steve has been hard of hearing since birth and now proudly wears Phonak Audeo M90-Rs, which he may let you try if you politely ask. He believes that his hearing loss contributed to his social difficulties, which led him to develop a deep interiority and imagination that influence his work.
He is an ongoing student of Italian theater and clown pedagogue Giovanni Fusetti, who teaches Lecoq-style pedagogy with a somatic approach. Somatic work has been part of Steve’s practice since long before he knew it had to be called that: in 2017, in Montreal, he co-founded Danser Dans L’Noir, a fortnightly evening of free dance in total darkness, which he runs permanently with a small team. He was a guest artist at the Labrador Creative Arts Festival in 2017 and 2018. Thanks to a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, he is currently reworking, with a team, his solo webcam/toy theater piece, Wild Bill’s Facebook Livefeed Feeding-Time Youtube Yeeeehaw!!!! To earn money, he works as an assistant to disabled people and as a deckhand and assistant engineer on ships with the Seafarers’ International Union of Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard.
Eli Cortés Carreón is an artist and researcher with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Jalisco School of Art, Mexico, where he specialized in drama and visual arts. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Communications at UQAM, and is a student member of the Centre de recherches Cultures – Arts – Sociétés (CELAT). He is interested in different types of narratives, bodies, identity and minority rights, as well as the use of these concepts in art and cultural issues. In this respect, his master’s thesis focuses on the narrative identity of deaf people in performance.
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