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Arts & culture

Prototyping a Research-Creation Project

Exhibition of work by ALLab’s PhD students


Date & time
Friday, December 10, 2021
10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Manuela Ochoa, María Vargas, Diego López, Mona Hedayati, Adela Goldbard, Koby Rogers Hall and Ranya Essmat Saad,

Cost

This event is free (registration needed, via link in bio).

Website

ALLab

Where

J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room ALLab 1042-03

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Hosted by the Acts of Listening Lab

In person at the Acts of Listening Lab Black Box and streamed ONLINE.
Please email acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca to secure your in-person spot.
A very limited number of spots are available.

Please note: if you have any Covid-19 symptoms of if you are not fully vaccinated we invite you to join the online version of this event.

Register in advance for this meeting
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Manuela Ochoa
10:30 am - 10:40 am     
From the Balso to the Cununo: A drawn conversation between Comunidad and Manuela Ochoa (video documentation)

Comunidad is a social leader from Tumaco, Colombia. His love for music, as well as his concern for the forced recruitment of young people, led him to create a cultural center. Comunidad was displaced and currently lives in Bogotá.  Manuela Ochoa is an artist and research assistant at the Listening Acts Lab. We asked ourselves: how can we narrate and listen to painful stories without affecting the well-being of those who tell them? How does drawing enrich listening and take it to unexpected places?

We explored these questions through drawings, plants and music.

 

Maria Vargas
10:45 am - 10:55 am

How can a movement exercise change listening and storytelling?

As I am interested in fostering listening through the body, engaging the senses to explore ways to communicate beyond linguistics, this activity consists of a conversation in a language not understood by the listener. As I am interested in sharing narratives about home and origins, the teller speaks in their mother tongue. We will see how a previous movement exercise can dramatically change the emotional connection between interlocutors, and the narratives of the storytellers.

 

Diego López
11:00 am - 11:20 am

Find the River (Testimonial Play - Work in progress)

Find the river will be a testimonial theatre piece that tells the story of my maternal grandfather searching and finding. The play will reflect on the search for our origins to understand identity and the development of new masculinities in a Peruvian media-class context. The autoethnographic creative process involves collecting and selecting memory material, ludic work with mind/body memories, and stage development. I will show a short version of the piece.

 

Mona Hedayati 
11:50 am - 12:05 pm

Self-Service is an autoethnographic video that offers an embodied listening experience by building on a prototype that involves recording my own personal narrative of forced migration and translating the verbal account into 2 non-verbal outputs: a sound installation that incorporates gestural vocal metrics; and a sound visualization that graphs the amplitude of voice to convey the affect and explore the displacement of meaning from a personal narrative of forced migration to computer-generated signals, foregrounding the process of translation that intends to communicate the ineffability and sensorial-corporeal nature of forced migration.

 

Adela Goldbard 
12:20 pm - 12:35 pm

Kurhirani no ambakiti (burning the devil): since that’s the only way they listen to us
Adela Goldbard in collaboration with Arantepacua’s Communal Indigenous Council 

On 5th April 2017, more than 300 members of the Michoacán state police and army forces repressed and attacked the P’urhépecha community of Arantepacua, in central México. Kurhirani no ambakiti is an interdisciplinary and collaborative art project that retells the attack from the perspective of the community in support of their ongoing fight for justice. For this exhibition I will present a quadraphonic sound installation composed from the testimonies collected in Arantepacua as part of the research for the project.

 

Koby Rogers Hall
12:40 pm - 12:50 pm

Tell Me Something…(I Don’t Already Know)

this interactive light installation with water, stones and an overhead projector, asks each of us to consider what we take and what we receive in our collaborative research. wrapping ribbons and words draw on Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Simpson’s resurgence theory (2020), Audre Lorde’s The Uses of the Erotic (1978), and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2016) and James Baldwin’s (1955) uses of critical intimacy in the call for racial reckoning. 

this work emerges in the Fall of 2021 from research into collective grieving in social movement settings (with supervision by Prof. Marcos Ancelovici, Canada Research Chair in the Sociology of Social Movements, UQÀM). 

 

Ranya Essmat Saad 
12:50 pm - 1:55 pm

Ranya will perform an improvisation of an ancient Egyptian ritual called Zar that explores aspects of gender based violence. Her performance links ritual with theatre of improvisation and audience engagement. 

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