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Since the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic the experience of space and time have immeasurably shifted. Modes of communicating and interacting with others “in-between” real and virtual spaces has become the new norm. Social distancing measures ask us to consider more carefully and critically our spatial relations (and the privilege that comes with this), or the thresholds thereof, and the politics that come with (re)orienting and positioning ourselves in an inherently social world. In the context of COVID-19, how are the temporal and spatial affects of the “in-between” resonating with our research and creation practices in and with the city?
“not yet” is a curated platform for gathering and hosting performative works, manifestos/ statements/ narrations, and research creation projects that do not fit neatly into the current discourses and paradigms on urban futures, and from fields outside (but pertinent to) the study of the city and urbanism.
We draw inspiration from feminist scholar and philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, for whom “the space of the in-between is the locus for social, cultural, and natural transformations: it is not simply a convenient space for movements and realignments but in fact is the only place – the place around identities, between identities – where becoming, openness to futurity, outstrips the conversational impetus to retain cohesion and unity… the in-between defines the space of certain virtuality, a potential that always threatens to disrupt the operations of the identities that constitute it.” (2001)
Within the context of COVID-19 and the revolutionary work of Black Lives Matter, in what ways are ideas of futurity currently being circulated? In what ways can futurity ground us in the possible, point to unrealized desires and to that which we do not yet know, while living, working, creating, and socializing otherwise; in the virtual, in-between, and spaces of uncertainty?
10h15-11h45 Geographies of Fear Curated by Sadie Gilker / Moderated by Shauna Janssen José Alavez jose.alavez@mail.concordia.ca
Sadie Gilker gabriel.gilker@gmail.com
Stefan Hodges hodges.stefan@gmail.com
12h15-13h45 Est-ce que le show must go on? Curated and moderated by Sylvain Lavoie Camille Gascon camillegascon@hotmail.com
Sylvain Lavoie sylvain.lavoie@concordia.ca
Emmanuelle Sirois emmanuelle.sirois@gmail.com
14h15-15h45 Virtuality as Critical Spatial Practice Curated by Shauna Janssen / Moderated by Alex Tigchelaar Sahar Alinezhad alinejadsahar90@gmail.com
Andrew Forster af@reluctant.ca
Amanda Gutiérrez cadadosis@gmail.com
Shauna Janssen shauna.janssen@concordia.ca
16h15-17h45 “X” – making our way Curated by Lisa Ndejuru / Moderated by Shauna Janssen Ramona Benveniste ramona.benveniste@gmail.com
Lisa Ndejuru lndejuru@gmail.com
Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer ursula.neuerburg-denzer@concordia.ca