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SUMMARY:The River That is Not: Teaching Oral History and Photography through Fieldwork
DESCRIPTION:With Lea Kabiljo \nThis event marks the opening of The river that is not\, an exhibition presenting a research project developed in collaboration with students from the visual arts program at the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí\, Ecuador\, and presented at COHDS from March 9 to April 20. \n\n\nDeveloped as a short-term teaching intervention\, the project introduced students to an oral history and photography methodology through fieldwork conducted in residential areas surrounding the contaminated waters of the Río Burro and Río Manta in Manta\, Ecuador. Students worked with residents who shared personal accounts related to environmental conditions\, urban infrastructure\, and long-term lived experience in the area. \nThe exhibition brings together selected photographic works and interview excerpts from the students’ fieldwork\, alongside documentation reflecting their experience of engaging with oral history and photography as a research methodology in a community context. The opening talk will focus on the pedagogical dimensions of the project\, with particular attention to the challenges and possibilities of leading field-based work with students. \nProject collaborators: Alisson Aguayo\, Solange Arteaga\, Cristina Basurto\, Fernanda Candela\, Dayton Cantos\, Eduarda Caviedes\, Vivian Cedeño\, Rody Chiang\, Josue Chinga\, Joshian Defaz\, Hanna Ferrin\, Erick Loor\, Casimiro Loor\, Luís López\, John Mera\, Kayla Moreira\, Jose Pin\, Jean-Paul Plua\, Emily Quiroz\, Yaritza Rodriguez\, Jose Sanchez\, Brithanny Santana\, Sulady Seme\, Camily Torres\, Pedro Villamil\, Kiara Villegas\, Nikole Zambrano and Damian Sinchi (instructor) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLea Kabiljo is an assistant professor of art education at Université Laval and a multidisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of arts\, education\, and oral history. Her research focuses on integrating photography and oral history as a research-creation methodology and examining the pedagogical potential of this approach. \n\nThe artist talk (13:30-14:00) will be followed by a Q & A (14:00-14:20)\, both of which will be held in the Sunroom. Afterwards\, we will wander over to the Media Lab for the exhibit launch. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION \nRegister now with this link \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 \n  \n\nLOCATION \nIn-person in LB-1019 (Sunroom) and LB-1042 (Media Lab)\, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/the-river-that-is-not-teaching-oral-history-and-photography-through-fieldwork/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, LB-1042 (COHDS)\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd O\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Symposium Channels of Testimony: Artistic Mediations of Listening
DESCRIPTION:How does art channel and reshape the way we listen to lived experience? \nJoin Amy Starecheski\, Director of Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts\, and Luis C. Sotelo\, Director of Concordia University’s Acts of Listening Lab (ALLab)\, for a conversation with three artist–scholar teams funded by ALLab to explore bold new pathways for mediating testimony through creative practice. This symposium brings together innovative practitioners working at the intersection of oral history\, performance\, sound\, and socially engaged art. Together\, we’ll delve into the practical and theoretical challenges of transforming real-life stories into artistic forms \n\n\nSpeakers and Projects \nT Braun and Franklin van Grieken \nSentir la Luz/Sense the Light  \nA research-creation project that investigates how digital mediation and virtual reality\, sound\, and light reshapes perception and listening in a group of people with visual impairment. This project is carried out in collaboration with Kim Sawchuk\, Kara Paul\, and Teatro Ciego. \n\nVanessa Terán and María Fernanda del Real  \nSucúa Haven \nMigrant Stories: Embodied Listening Lab \nInspired by Sucúa Haven\, a collection of migration stories created with Ecuadorian in Connecticut (United States)\, a group of Latin diaspora participants in Montreal (Canada)\, as well as Ecuadorians and other Latin American immigrants in Quito (Ecuador)\, will reflect on their own migratory experiences and create performances of embodied testimonies that places Sucúa Haven stories in dialogue with their own. \n  \nPeng Hsu \nCucumbers\, The Melancholy of a Turtle and a Girl’s Otaku’s Romance \nA novel/play creative project that explores BBR. BBR\, short for Broke Broke Recitation\, is my translation of the Mandarin term 碎碎唸 (siu siu nian)\, a phrase commonly used in Taiwan and China to describe how women chatter incessantly about daily and seemingly banal trivialities. Theorized here as a technique of queer narration\, BBR functions as a dramaturgical writing style through which the project examines housing justice\, an endangered turtle\, and the inarticulable experiences of constipation and yearning of romance. \n\nModerator \nLuis C. Sotelo Castro \nDirector\, Acts of Listening Lab (Concordia University) \nDiscussant \nAmy Starecheski \nDirector\, Oral History Master of Arts Program (Columbia University) \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION \n\nThis is a hybrid event.\nRegister in person with this link\n\nRegister for zoom with this link \n\nLOCATION \nIn-person at the 4TH SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West\, J.W. McConnell Building (Library Building). \nCOHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory\, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/symposium-channels-of-testimony-artistic-mediations-of-listening/
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