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SUMMARY:Exhibit - Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories
DESCRIPTION:Bodies carry and transmit traces of memories\, sites\, and stories—both as acts of care and as burdens to bear. \nBodies Carrying: Traces & Stories is a twofold conversation taking the form of a group exhibition and a program consisting of workshops\, performances\, and talks. This is an experiment in transforming the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling into a dialogue space that brings together artists and researchers who engage with or reflect on oral history in their work\, from the curatorial process to the mise en œuvre. \nThe exhibition and program explore the traces we carry—the traces of what was willingly or unwillingly passed on\, those that were inflicted\, and the lingering ghosts of what was left behind.  \nThese imprints can be things we hold onto or want to make more visible\, carried through acts of care\, (re)connection\, and resistance. Yet\, these traces also represent the weight of what bodies have borne and still bear. Bodies Carrying: Traces & Stories asks: How do we hold space for both the tenderness and heaviness of what it means to carry? \nExhibition Location \nCOHDS\, 10th Floor – LB-1042; 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \nExhibition Hours \nMay 1 – May 16\nOpen daily | 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM \nDates \nMay 5 – May 8\nPlease register for individual events. \nVernissage \nApril 30\, 5 à 7\, Sunroom (LB-1019)\nWith durational performance “I Insist” by Sol Worsnip \nProgram \nMay 5\, 10h-13h\nCorps\, émotions et recherches: une exploration par cartographie corporelle – Atelier \nMay 6\, 12h-14h\nAttuning to Spectralities: Senses\, Whispers\, and Other Connective Membranes – Workshop \nMay 6\, 15h-16h30\nكان حتى ما كان (Once Upon a Place): What Remains of the Halqa? Performing Memory and Absence – Lecture Performance \nMay 7\, 10h-13h\nThe Metabolism of Silence – Workshop \nMay 7\, 16h-17h30\nIntimate Listening- Immersive Theatre \nMay 8\, 14h-15h\nWalking Interludes – Reading and dialogue  \nMay 8\, 16h-18h\nIdentity\, Care\, Labour\, and Matrilineal Stories – Performance and Artist Talks  \nREGISTRATION \nRegistration forms are linked on each event page. \nCurated/facilitated by: Annie Thao Vy Nguyen \nAnnie Thao Vy Nguyen (they/she) is a Master’s student in Geography and Urban Studies at Concordia University\, exploring queer futurity and political imagination through dialogic processes. Their thesis uses oral history to trace the evolution of queer Asian activism in Montreal across generations\, using Chinatown as a case study. Annie holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Université de Montréal\, with a thesis at the Technical University of Munich on inquiry-based exhibition pedagogy\, where they co-developed and co-taught a course on pedagogy in architecture exhibitions. Trained and soon-to-be certified in Philocreation dialogue facilitation\, Annie used these tools to facilitate this exhibition and program through a curatorial dialogue with all contributors.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/exhibit-bodies-carrying-traces-stories/
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations,workshops
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SUMMARY:كان حتى ما كان (Once Upon a Place): What Remains of the Halqa? Performing Memory and Absence - Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credits: Film still from Crossing the Seventh Gate (2017) by Ali Essafi\nDescription by Bouchra Assou and Salma Chouqair\nDrawing from a post-colonial concern with the preservation of different forms of oral traditions in Morocco\, this lecture performance seeks to restage a halqa as both a space and a conduit for ancestral storytelling\, performance and communion. \nThe halqa\, both evoking a space and a practice\, serves as the epitome of narratology and the subversive oral histories of Moroccan heritage. Exploring the intersections between space\, body and practice and treating the memories they hold as a form of resistance to authoritarian/colonial power\, this lecture performance will centre the role of the halqa and its role in preserving and transmitting traditions in their visual and auditory manifestations such as theatre\, storytelling\, carnivalesque practices\, music (tagnawit)\, etc. Furthermore\, we will explore the cinematic and literary languages that seek to disrupt\, challenge\, and dismantle hegemonic historical narratives using alternative modes of knowledge production\, such as the ancient North African practices that encompass a form of storytelling beyond text-image relationships \nBouchra Assou is an independent researcher\, film curator\, programmer\, writer\, and archivist of Moroccan origin based in Montreal\, Canada. She is the founder and curator of Dhakira Collective (2020): an independent research\, archival and curatorial platform that foregrounds art\, cinema\, and music outside the western canon with a focus on cinema from the SWANA region (South West Asia & North Africa) and the co-founder and director of programming of the North African Queer Film Festival (2021) : a community-driven platform dedicated to celebrating and supporting films by\, about\, and for North African queers\, powered by Dhakira Collective. She was invited to deliver lectures on North African cinema and archives by Concordia University\, McGill University and The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). Press features about her work have appeared in publications such as Mille World\, Journal de Métro\, Also Cool Mag\, The Link Newspaper etc.  \nSalma Chouqair is a freelance writer and an independent researcher of Moroccan Amazigh origin. She is currently pursuing a BFA Art History and Theology at Concordia University. In 2023\, Salma launched Bayt Zuhal\, an independent cultural platform dedicated to recollecting and preserving the traditions\, arts and archives of Tamazgha & the post-colonial Maghreb with a focus on ancestral futurism. Since its inception\, the project has amassed a global online community. Press features about Salma’s work and research were published in Dune Magazine\, The Road to Nowhere and more recently The Link Newspaper and Dazed MENA.  \nEvent language(s) English\, French\, Arabic & Darija \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. \n 
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SUMMARY:Intimate Listening - Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez.\nIn an intimate space within the exhibition space\, a copera will interact with volunteer participants who visit this spot individually. Before the interaction begins\, each participant will be given a token amount\, which will be used to exchange stories and typical beverages of the Colombian cafés. The tokens have different values\, and will determine the type of story\, drink and interaction the visitor may have with the copera. After those tokens are consumed\, the next participant is invited to visit the spot. This immersive theatre game delves into the notions of intimate labor\, embodied listening\, and care. \nEvent Requirements: \nThis piece requires one person at a time in the exhibition space. Each person will have around 10 minutes of interaction. For the quality of the piece\, it is requested that participants interact individually as personal stories arise during the conversation\, and those who wish to participate are invited to wait outside the room. \nCristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (she/they) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and educator developing her PhD studies in the INDI program. She is interested in creative\, transformative and communal experiences that address critical intersectional concerns. Based in Tiohtià:ke – Mooniyang – Montreal since 2019. CA is affiliated with Hexagram\, Milieux-LeParc\, COHDS\, ALLab\, and SenseLab-3e at Concordia University. Editor and workshop facilitator at Kodama Cartonera\, an independent publishing house born in Tijuana\, Mexico\, in 2010. CA’s research-creation approach is performative\, feminist\, and (an)archival. Her perspectives stem from embodied practices as a source of knowledge\, intertwining processes of doing-feeling-thinking. Due to their experience in different theatre troupes\, CA learned about diverse techniques focused on developing research and creative methods for\, in\, and within public spaces and non-conventional stages. Currently\, they are a board member of Teesri Duniya Theatre\, where she has developed two community engagement projects. \n\nEvent language(s): English \nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person at COHDS Exhibition (LB-1042) \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/intimate-listening-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Identity\, Care Labor\, and Matrilineal Stories– Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez\, Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez.\nThis is an event composed of two artist presentations followed by a joint Q&A. It will begin with a performance and talk by Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling)\, followed by a presentation from Javi Fuentes Bernal and David Diaz Méndez on their collaborative project (Démarches décoloniales de fabulation critique et de reconnection: Hypergraphie\, performance et futurismes andins dans la création de la Revue d’études Travesti\, Q’iwa & Suprabinaires). \n(1) Resonant roots: an intergenerational storytelling (Cristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez): \nCristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez’s event includes a solo performance (resonant roots) and a performative talk: (mise en corps/puesta-en-cuerpo) which zooms in on the role of coperas (women who worked at cafés\, combining traditional waitressing with some escorting services without necessarily being sex workers) in Colombia. \nResonant Roots encompasses Alba’s story (the artist’s great-grandmother) narrated through the voices of her daughter and granddaughter. While a video is projected\, the performer enacts physical movements and interacts with objects around the space. Within this maternal lineage\, some stories want to be told\, others are hidden or denied. Are those stories somehow imprinted in the performer’s body\, although unknown? What are the resonances of her body with the audio archives of her distant lineage? \nmise en corps/puesta-en-cuerpo expands the inquiry; It is a performative talk which outlines the research process on the concept of public women\, focusing on the role of coperas. Also\, it draws on the dramaturgical guidelines\, the exploration of storytelling\, and the creative questions raised to develop these pieces. \nCristina Alejandra Jimenez Gomez (she/they) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and educator developing her PhD studies in the INDI program. She is interested in creative\, transformative and communal experiences that address critical intersectional concerns. Based in Tiohtià:ke – Mooniyang – Montreal since 2019. CA is affiliated with Hexagram\, Milieux-LeParc\, COHDS\, ALLab\, and SenseLab-3e at Concordia University. Editor and workshop facilitator at Kodama Cartonera\, an independent publishing house born in Tijuana\, Mexico\, in 2010. CA’s research-creation approach is performative\, feminist\, and (an)archival. Her perspectives stem from embodied practices as a source of knowledge\, intertwining processes of doing-feeling-thinking. Due to their experience in different theatre troupes\, CA learned about diverse techniques focused on developing research and creative methods for\, in\, and within public spaces and non-conventional stages. Currently\, they are a board member of Teesri Duniya Theatre\, where she has developed two community engagement projects. \nEvent language(s) \n\nThe performance includes audio in Spanish with video subtitles in English.\nThe performative talk is held in English. \n\n(2)  Démarches décoloniales de fabulation critique et de reconnection: Hypergraphie\, performance et futurismes andins dans la création de la Revue d’études Travesti\, Q’iwa & Suprabinaires (Javi Fuentes Bernal & David Diaz Méndez) \nDecolonial approaches of critical fabulation and reconnection: Hypergraphy\, performance\, and Andean futurisms in the creation of the Journal of Travesti\, Q’iwa & Suprabinaires Studies. \n​​Interweaving critical fabulation\, hypergraphy\, and Pastos symbolism\, this presentation delves into the creative process behind the Journal of Travesti\, Q’iwa & Suprabinary Studies. This journal challenges the linear narratives of colonialism by reactivating indigenous imaginaries through their hybridization with experimental graphic practices. Grounded in Travesti and diasporic studies\, the journal’s critical fabulation—developed in collaboration with David Mendez for graphic design and enriched by the performances of Javi Fuentes Bernal and their mother\, Yadila Bernal—becomes a tool for inventing alternative narratives that unsettle the boundaries of the so-called fixed truths of colonial historiography. Through a hypergraphy that intertwines writing\, drawing\, ancestral symbols\, and contemporary visual languages\, the project explores forms of storytelling that are vibrant\, multifaceted\, and polysemic. This hybridity serves as a lever for reconfiguring Latinx Cholas aesthetics and imagining new visual forms in resonance with Andean futurism. By mobilizing performance as a space for the reactivation of long memories and other sensory repertoires\, the project fosters living connections between intergenerational transmission\, critical fabulation\, and humor. In this presentation\, we explore our research and creative process from sensitive perspectives aimed at rethinking and inhabiting our identities beyond the frameworks imposed by colonialism and whiteness. \nJavi Fuentes Bernal est un·e artiste transdisciplinaire\, chercheur·e et intervenant·e colombien·ne basé·e à Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Son travail s’inspire des fabulations critiques et des pratiques archivistiques\, à l’intersection des pensées trans*travesti\, migrantes et autochtones. À travers la performance\, la vidéo\, l’installation et l’écriture\, Javi explore les affects liés à la mobilité\, ainsi que les relations entre mémoire\, territoire et culture populaire. Javi a récemment contribué à des expositions telles que Unique en son genre (Musée de la Civilisation\, 2023)\, Awera en Bakatá (Museo Nacional de Colombia\, 2024)\, et Le Québec\, autrement dit (Musée de la Civilisation\, 2024) et Minga Suprabinaire (PHI\, 2025). Ses recherches ont bénéficié du soutien d’institutions telles que le Centre de recherche en santé publique CReSP\, le Fonds de recherche du Québec\, et une bourse Vanier pour ses études doctorales en travail social à l’Université de Montréal. \nDavid Díaz Méndez est étudiant en design graphique à l’École de design de l’UQAM. Il s’intéresse au langage polysémique caractéristique des contextes d’hybridité culturelle et à la manière dont celui-ci peut enrichir les différentes sphères du design graphique. Il a rejoint l’équipe d’Hypercodex en 2023\, où il participe à la conception de l’identité visuelle de l’exposition ALCUIN (2023-2024)\, à l’événement FORUM (2024)\, ainsi qu’à la recherche et à la conception graphique des projets d’Amandine Alessandra Ephemeral Typography: Writing the impermanent et FLUX/Mémoires Photophobes. II sest illustré aux ADCC Student Awards 2024 en remportant le bronze dans la catégorie design graphique. \nEvent language(s): French \n\n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now. \nPlease note that all our events are free and open to all\, but registration is mandatory. For any questions please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca \nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/identity-care-labor-and-matrilineal-stories-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
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