Vibrations – happening simultaneously in Montreal, Quebec and East London, UK – is the culmination of a collaboration between VibraFusionLab (London, Ontario), Together! 2012 CIC (East London, UK), and the Participatory Media cluster of Milieux: Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec). The project brings Deaf and disabled artists and their communities from Montreal and East London together to co-produce a suite of new digital artworks and experimental prototypes that explore our sensorial relationship to the world through «vibrational» tactility, including the skin, and the body as a resonant chamber. It asks how artistic creation can contribute to challenging ableism (discrimination against disabled people) and audism (discrimination against Deaf people). Vibrations features a wide range of approaches to Deaf and disability arts and imagines multiple intersections of tactile vibration, sound, and image.
Works
TransCommunicator (Social Model) 2018 / Transcommunicator (Cultural Model) 2018 by David Bobier
Splash! (2018) by Mighty Mega Saturday Club at Discover Children’s Story Centre, Living Films at Richard House Children’s Hospice, Grace Manning, Georgia Akbar, Ju Gosling aka ju90
Nos Mains Qui Vibrent (2018) by Véro Leduc, Pamela Witcher, Daz Saunders, and Hodan Youssouf
Stratford by Chair: A Tale of Two Cities (2018) by Jade Sempare
Down, Down to the Water by Aimee Louw
Together! at Vicarage Lane Community Centre (2018) by Together! 2012 Photographers & Filmmakers Club, Together! Dance Club and Julie Newman
Progression (2018) by Salima Punjani
Ceci n’est pas un exercice de sensibilisation (2018) by Laurence Parent
Dancing Together: Transatlantic Connections by Menka Nagrani, Les Productions des pieds des mains and the Together! 2012 Dance Club
Healing House (2018) by Darian Goldin Stahl
Always Waiting (2018) by Natural Diversions, Les Productions des pieds des mains and the Together! 2012 Outdoor
Hemo-resonance #1 by Samuel Thulin
Disability as method: audio description as blind intervention by Arseli Dokumaci