Challenging Ableism and Audism Through the Arts
Concordia University Downtown Montreal
Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2018
Welcoming Remarks and Vibrations Exhibition Opening
- Kim Sawchuk (Communication Studies, Concordia University)
- David Bobier (VibraFusionLab, London, Ontario)
- Samuel Thulin (Communication Studies, Concordia University)
- Ju Gosling aka ju90 and Julie Newman (Together! 2012, East London, UK)
Panel 1: DisArt Part 1
A conversation convened by Carrie Sandahl (Director of Disability Art, Culture, and Humanities, University of Illinois)
- Laura Ferguson (New York-based visual artist)
- Darian Goldin Stahl (artist and PhD Humanities student, Concordia University)
- Arseli Dokumaci (artist and professor, Communication Studies, Concordia University)
Plenary: Indigenous Intersections
- Emilie Monnet (Montreal-based Anishnaabe artist, founder of Onishka Productions)
- Waira Nina (Inga interdisciplinary artist, founder of Yachaikury Educative Institution)
- Glenna Matoush (Montreal-based Anishnaabe artist and elder)
- Faye Ginsburg (Professor of Anthropology; Co- director, Center for Disability Studies @ NYU)
- Mélanie O’Bomsawin (Montreal-based video and new media artist)
Panel 2A: Integrated Performance
- Kelsie Acton (University of Alberta/CRIPSiE), “Access to Structured Dance Improvisation”
- Anne-Marie Santerre – Conference Presentation on artistic work of AXIS Dance Company
- Stephen Sillett and Jenny Jimenez (Aiding Dramatic Change in Development [ADCID], Toronto, Ontario) – Presentation on ADCID
Panel 2B: Research Creation and Ethnography Part 1
- Cheryl Green (Disability Visibility Podcast/New Day Films ) – “In My Home”
- Matt Rader (Creative Writing, University of British Columbia) – Reading from Visual Inspection
- Jim Ferris (Ability Centre Endowed Chair in Disability Studies, University of Toledo) – “Poems in Performance” – presented by Carrie Sandahl (Director of Disability Art, Culture, and Humanities, University of Illinois)
Panel 3: Deaf Music
- Véro Leduc (Artist and Professor, Département de communication sociale et publique, Université du Québec à Montréal)
- Daz Saunders (Département de linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal-based artist)
- Hodan Youssouf (Montreal-based artist)
- Pamela Witcher (Gatineau-based artist and educator)
VIBE Art Night – Performances featuring:
- Lois Brown (Newfoundland based artist) – “I am a Genius: Does anyone here know me? (improvisations with things)”
- Théâtre Aphasique (Montreal-based theatre company) Seeley Quest (Communication Studies, Concordia University) – Performance
- Véro Leduc (Artist and Professor, Département de communication sociale et publique, Université du Québec à Montréal)
- Daz Saunders (Département de linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal-based artist)
- Pamela Witcher (Gatineau-based artist and educator)
- Jessica Flores (San Francisco-based YouTube Deaf comedy)
- Hodan Youssouf (Montreal-based artist)
Panel 4: DisArt Part 2
A conversation convened by Alison Kafer (Professor of Feminist Studies, Southwestern University) featuring artists:
- Salima Punjani (Montreal-based artist)
- Alexis Bulman (Prince Edward Island and Montreal- based artist)
- Véro Leduc (Artist and Professor, Département de communication sociale et publique, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Panel 5: Montreal Disability Arts: Atypique Artists
- Menka Nagrani (Montreal-based choreographer, Les Productions des Pieds des Mains),
Cindy Schwartz (Montreal-based, program director of Les Muses) and Geneviève Bouchard - Mélissa Desjardins (Gatineau, Quebec, visual artist)
Panel 6A: Disability and Theatre Making
- Alex Bulmer (Toronto-based theatre artist), Becky Gold (PhD student, York University), and Megan Johnson (PhD student, York University), “Blind Woman in Search of Narrative”
- Drea Flyne (MA student and creator, University of Ottawa)
- Rena Cohen (Vancouver, Real Wheels)
Panel 6B: Research Creation and Ethnography Part 2
- Joelle Rouleau (Études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal) and Tamara Vukov (Départment de communication, Université de Montréal)- “Research-Creation and Disability Critiques of Dominant/Traditional Modes of Knowledge Production”
- Eileen Mary Holowka (writer, game developer, and PhD student, Concordia, University)- “The Devil is in the Fractions”: Life Writing and Chronic Pain”
- Douglas E. Kidd (poet, Toledo, Ohio) – “Embodiment, Autoethnography, and Performance Poetry: Living with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Artist Talk and Closing Remarks
- Michael Nimbley and Catherine Bourgeois (Joe Jack et John)
- Ash McAskill, Samuel Thulin, and Kim Sawchuk (symposium organizers)