Videos – Vibe

Challenging Ableism and Audism Through the Arts

Concordia University Downtown Montreal
Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2018

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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