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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/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions,presentations,workshops
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SUMMARY:Corps\, émotions et recherches: une exploration par cartographie corporelle - Bodies Carrying Exhibition Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description écrite par Naomie Léonard et Stéphane Guimont Marceau.\nLa cartographie corporelle offre une manière unique et créative d’explorer son identité\, ses expériences de vie ou une thématique particulière en centrant le corps et les émotions dans le processus de réflexion. Utilisant l’idée de la carte topographique\, la cartographie corporelle propose d’imaginer le corps comme un territoire qu’il est possible de représenter de manière symbolique. Abordant les thématiques du corps\, des émotions et de la recherche\, cet atelier invitera les participant-es à se pencher sur les manières dont le corps et les émotions affectent la recherche et inversement\, comment la recherche affecte le corps et les émotions ?  \nDurant l’atelier\, les participant-es créent une représentation en taille réelle de leur corps. Après avoir personnalisé leur carte pour l’imprégner de leur personnalité et caractéristiques\, les participant-es explorent les thématiques proposées à l’aide d’images\, de couleurs\, de textures\, de mots et de symboles produits via différents médiums d’art plastique (peinture\, dessin\, collage\, etc.). Cela leur permet d’exprimer et documenter leur perspective de certaines expériences à partir de sensations vécues  dans leur corps-territoire.  \nL’atelier se termine par un cercle de partage afin que chaque participant-e puisse raconter sa carte. Ces récits laissent ensuite place à une discussion collective sur les thématiques abordées pour mettre en relief les convergences et les contrastes entre les cartes. Nous invitons chaque participant-e à s’investir dans la création d’un espace bienveillant et sans jugement. Nous cherchons à établir un climat ludique\, marqué par le partage\, l’écoute et le respect mutuel.  \nInstructions: \n\nPlusieurs médiums artistiques\, dont de la peinture\, seront disponibles. N’hésitez pas à vous apporter un tablier.\nN’hésitez pas à amener des collations\nVeuillez arriver quelques minutes à l’avance si possible\n\nNaomie Léonard (elle/she) est doctorante en études urbaines à l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Adoptant une posture écoféministe décoloniale\, ses intérêts de recherche touchent les relations entre corps\, émotions et espaces en contexte de résistance au colonialisme et dans les luttes socio-écologiques. Sa thèse porte sur les relations à la ville et les espaces de care créés et maintenus par des femmes Ilnuatsh et Atikamekws de Mashteuiatsh. Elle a mobilisé la cartographie corporelle comme méthode de recherche afin d’inviter les femmes à explorer de manière créative leurs relations aux espaces et à leurs trajectoires de vie.  \nStéphane Guimont Marceau est professeure au centre Urbanisation Culture Société de l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Elle codirige le programme conjoint INRS-UQAT de maîtrise et de doctorat en études autochtones. Elle est aussi codirectrice du Collaboratoire Villes Voix Visions (c3v.inrs.ca). À partir d’approches critiques\, féministes\, antiracistes et décoloniales\, elle travaille au sein de projets collaboratifs et partenariaux qui priorisent des épistémologies autochtones et des méthodes participatives basées sur les récits. \nINSCRIPTION  \nInscrivez-vous ici. \nVeuillez noter que tous nos événements sont gratuits et ouverts à toutes et à tous. Cependant\, vous devez réserver votre place. Pour participer à l’événement en présentiel évrivez à: cohds.chorn@concordia.ca  \nLIEU \n Le CHORN/ALLAB sont situés sur le territoire non-cédé de Kanien’kehá:ka à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/corps-emotions-et-recherches-une-exploration-par-cartographie-corporelle-bodies-carrying-exhibition-programming/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:workshops
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SUMMARY:Attuning to Spectralities: Senses\, Whispers\, and Other Connective Membranes - Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Milena Rodriguez\nDescription by Esteban Donoso and Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan\nThis workshop offers an immersive\, collaborative space for scholars\, performers\, visual artists\, and curators to engage with embodied practices that attune to spectral presences. By experimenting with spectrality as a connective tissue that links us to ancestral pasts\, we will explore expanded modes of perception that allow us to sense beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. \nParticipants will experiment with “tuning-in” to spectral traces—those unseen presences and memories that linger in bodies\, objects\, and environments. Through guided exercises\, ritual\, open discussions\, and collaborative writing\, we will examine how these traces  are always already part of our embodied experience\, inhabiting material objects\, spatial environments\, and our physical and emotional tissues.  \nThe session includes grounding and attuning exercises\, brief presentations by Esteban and Shalon on their methodologies\, and a generative group writing activity to create a shared “score” reflecting our collective experience of the spectral. \nEsteban Donoso is a researcher-artist from Quito\, Ecuador currently living in Montreal. He recently completed his PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University in Toronto. His work focuses on dance and performance archiving and transmissions\, oral histories\, and practice-based methodologies. His artistic work has been shown in Ecuador\, Colombia\, Chile\, Belgium\, Switzerland\, France\, the U.S.\, and Canada. \nShalon T. Webber-Heffernan is a Toronto based writer and curator. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies and is a core member of the Toronto Performance Art Collective (7a11d International Festival of Performance Art). Some of her recent writing has been published in Theatre Research in Canada\, Performance Research\, Comparative Media Arts Journal\, C Magazine\, Peripheral Review\, Performance Matters\, and several other publications. \n*Please wear comfortable clothing \nNote: this event will take place in English\, with the possibility of French translation \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 
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/attuning-to-spectralities-senses-whispers-and-other-connective-membranes-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES: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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LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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SUMMARY:The Metabolism of Silence- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description by Eve Garnier and Jacynthe Desjardins\nIn a movement-based workshop\, we propose an exploration of relational possibilities and their bodily expression\, anchored in silence(s). Here\, silence is not a rupture but a dynamic space of exchange between individuals sharing the same space-time. \nThe connection between narrator and audience is a key part of any narrative formed during an interview or performance. Beyond words\, what do we\, as receivers\, perceive? Building trust and sharing authority requires thoughtful attention to how we receive stories. The body is not just a passive receiver but an active participant with its own agency. \nThe workshop will develop two distinct approaches: one in pairs and the other in groups. \nIn the first part\, participants will engage in storytelling through movement in pairs\, examining how narration emerges when bodies remain in constant motion. Can movement generate alternative cognitive pathways? We will seek to identify forms of silence that extend beyond the mere absence of words. We will explore the role of the receivers when also in motion; how they interact with the narrator’s entanglement with spatial relationship\, the unfolding story\, and gesture. What\, then\, is the nature of silence in this context? \nThe second part will focus on a group conversation without words\, engaging with the often-unconscious dimensions of interaction. Participants will observe\, sense otherness\, and be perceived by others. What do we see\, project\, or have projected onto us? How do we perceive “the other” within a group\, within space\, and within time? What is the nature of this silence? \nEve Garnier is a Franco-Polish dance artist and researcher\, born and trained in France\, it was\, however\, in Scandinavia and Canada that Eve built a career in dance as a performer\, assistant to creation and teacher. Centered around the relational and experimental potential of the living body in movement\, her artistic and pedagogical reflections are nourished by artists from varied generations and aesthetics. Eve is a Part-time professor at UQAM\, where she teaches technique and interpretation classes. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in the INDI program at Concordia University. \nJacynthe Desjardins est une artiste en danse établie à Tiohtià :ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal\, Jacynthe Desjardins complète un baccalauréat en danse contemporaine à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM\, 2021) où elle aura eu l’occasion de travailler avec de nombreux chorégraphes et artistes de la scène\, dont Frédérick Gravel\, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage\, Danièle Desnoyers et poursuit depuis un parcours en tant qu’interprète et chercheuse. Aussi titulaire d’un diplôme en lutherie de l’école-atelier Bruand\, Jacynthe s’intéresse au lien entre la musique et la matière. Ses interrogations se tournent vers ce dialogue liminal entre corps sonore et corps matière. À travers sa pratique du mouvement\, elle navigue cet échange constant entre physicalité\, sons et vibrations. S’ajoute aussi un intérêt grandissant pour les arts martiaux ainsi qu’envers l’importance de notre héritage culturel en danse. \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/the-metabolism-of-silence-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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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:Walking Interludes- Bodies Carrying Exhibit Programming
DESCRIPTION:Description by speaker Sunjay Mathuria.\n“Walking Interludes is a reflective reading about walking\, place\, race\, identity\, and memory. In this reading\, I share short excerpts from my field journal that I kept during my research visits to Belfast and Lahore. In an autoethnographic style\, these vignettes focus on movement (walking) through the cities and consider the affective and embodied surges and textures of place. I reflect on the ways I am visibly marked as a racialized body in Belfast\, a city still grappling with division. In Lahore\, I draw on themes of intergenerational memory and belonging in a city from which my great-grandparents were displaced during Partition. \n  As an urban researcher\, it is important to foreground walking as a self-reflexive\, embodied practice and acknowledge the ways in which walking narratives are articulated through footsteps\, sketching out our own entanglements with space\, as we become enmeshed in the textured spatial networks of the places in which we walk. \nThus\, this reading invites researchers to consider the ways they are situated within their research\, and in particular\, the relationship between body\, movement\, and place. \nI will begin with some context: what are walking methods and why are they important? I will then read excerpts from my field journal for around 10 minutes\, with an accompanying slideshow of photos I took projected behind me. At the end\, I invite audience members to reflect on and share their own walking experiences. This reflection period should be around 30 minutes.  \nPlease note:\nThis event may be of interest for those who use walking methods in place-based research. You can bring a notebook or your field journal to jot down some thoughts. \nSunjay Mathuria (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in Geography at Concordia University and a former urban planner. In his doctoral research\, he uses walking methods and narrative analysis to examine the dynamics of memory-making in cities that have experienced spatial trauma. He is also generally interested in the representations of place\, race\, and class in literature\, television and film. \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 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/walking-interludes-bodies-carrying-exhibit-programming/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:presentations
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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
CATEGORIES:performances and exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Summer Institute: Oral History & Creative Practice (for credit)
DESCRIPTION:May 12-26\, 2025\nOpen to university students (for credit course) and community members \nCall for applications COHDS Summer Institute 2025 \nStorytelling\, as both an art and a practice\, occupies a central role in many cultures. The evocative power of oral history has made a major impact in the worlds of public history\, museum/curatorial practice\, and the arts. Our inaugural Summer Institute in “Oral History & Creative Practice” – hosted by Concordia’s “Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling” (COHDS) – offers you an opportunity to develop an oral history project that aspires to the kind of public-facing research that has become synonymous with COHDS\, including digital storytelling\, podcasts\, creative writing\, visual arts media\, and the performing arts. \nThis Summer Institute brings together graduate and senior undergraduate students\, activists\, artists\, oral historians\, and community members in a shared exploration of the intersection of oral history and creative practice. It will provide you with a strong grounding in the theory\, methodology\, and ethics of oral history while offering a space to “translate” your oral history research into works of research-creation. Participants will work with leading experts in the field; collaborate in workshops on oral history\, storytelling\, and research creation; and forge connections within an interdisciplinary group of peers. \nAs a field of inquiry\, oral history has grown up on the margins. Oral history interviewing has been undertaken for many reasons: artistic; community-building; truth and reconciliation; political action; storytelling\, preservation\, and research. Common to these projects is a commitment to lending an ear to marginalized voices. This year’s institute is a blend of a traditional seminar that revolves around deep engagement with assigned readings and a workshop that affords us a space to reflect on interview dynamics\, learn about best recording practices\, and explore innovative and creative ways of interpreting life stories. \nFor more information\, and for instructions to apply\, please see the call for applications. \nREGISTRATION\nPlease note that registration is open to university students and community members alike. University students may take this Summer Institute for credit.\nWe welcome all levels of experience. To submit an application for the Summer Institute\, please consult the call for applications above.\nPlease note that the application deadline is Sunday\, March 23\, 23:59 EST. For any academic inquiries please reach out to the Director of the Summer Institute\, Dr. Barbara.Lorenzkowski@concordia.ca
URL:https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/summerinstitute2025/
LOCATION:LB-1019 (Sunroom)\, COHDS\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.\, Montreal\, Québec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:workshops
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