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"La
Performance comme outil transdisciplinaire et relationnel en milieux de
soins : autour du projet Features à Vienne,"
La
performance comme forme culturelle. Articulations et désarticulations
contemporaines, ACFAS colloquium, Sherbrooke, May 2011
- "Giving Pathos Form? On Representations of Trauma in Contemporary Art,"
At the Limits of Language: Communicating the Unsayable in Cultural Contact, Innsbruck University, December 2009
-"(New) Media Arts Practices and the Cultures of Medicine: Historial Perspectives, Contemporary Endeavours,"
-"'Aren't you in the wrong hospital?' A Case for Therapeutic Clowning with Adult Patients,"
CATC/ACCT annual conference, Montreal, November 2009
- "Unconventional Treatments: Illness and Self-Representation
in Contemporary Western Art,"
Einherz Symposium, "Medizin und (Heil-)Kunst," Vienna Medical University, October 10, 2009
- "Bob Flanagan: Performing Illness," Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, May 26, 2009
In order to “fight sickness with sickness,” American
artist Bob Flanagan used his ailing body as the subject of
sadomasochistic performances in the early 1990s. In Visiting Hours for
example, spectators were invited to enter a hospital room that was
entirely reproduced in a gallery space. With his body weakened by
Cystic Fibrosis, Flanagan both embodied and performed the role of a
sick patient in this staged setting between the worlds of art and
medicine. This presentation investigates Flanagan’s practice, and
considers how the lines between reality and representation are
provocatively blurred in his pathographic performances.
- Beyond Biotourism: Cross-Pollinations between Art and Medicine symposium, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, May 15, 2009
- "Choreographic Auto/Pathographies," Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, March 31, 2009
This talk investigates the practice of auto/pathography in
contemporary dance, through a case study of Bill T. Jones’ 1994
choreography Still/Here. Initially developed through workshops
with individuals facing life-threatening illnesses, the piece was
ultimately performed by healthy dancers. Its pathographic subject
matter sparked controversy in the cultural community nonetheless, and
triggered a vibrant public debate on the status of so-called “victim
art.” Both the creative process leading to Still/Here and the grounds for its controversial reception are examined in this presentation.
- "Auto/Pathographies: Aesthetic Responses to the Social Cultures of Disease," Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, February 27, 2009
November 2008:
- Conférence de commissaire à Oboro (Montréal) :
- 2008 UAAC/AUCC congress (Toronto): "Regarding Pain: Questions of Representation"
Panel co-chaired by Claudette Lauzon and Tamar Tembeck
December 2007:
-Bild, Stimme: Das Zeigen der Stimme. Co-conception and organisation with Sabina Brandt, Maren Butte, and Stéphane Montavon. Presentation of “Staging the Dis/Embodied Voice: Marie Chouinard’s Choreographic Solos,” eikones (Basel)
November 2006:
- “Performative Autopathographies.” Presented before the “Bild und Wissen” Graduiertenkollegen at eikones (Basel)
June 2006:
- Canada Dance Festival, post-performance public talks with choreographers (Ottawa)
May 2006:
- “Penser la présence en relation: Questionnements interdisciplinaires.” Panel at ACFAS congress. Co-conception with Dr Florence Vinit. Presentation of “Exposed Wounds: Exploring the Relational Dimension in Autopathographic Works by Jo Spence” (Montreal)
February 2006:
- “Réflexions sur le rôle du clown thérapeutique dans l’accompagnement du processus de réadaptation de l’enfant polytraumatisé.” Paper presented with Melissa Holland and Florence Vinit. Traumatology colloquium, Hôpital Enfant-Jésus (Quebec City)
November 2005:
- “Performative Autopathography: Hannah Wilke’s Intra-Venus series.” Paper presented in the Art and Medicine panel, Universities Art Association of Canada annual congress (Victoria)
April 2005:
- “Challenges Facing the New Media Museum: Policy, Production and Preservation at the ZKM.” Montreal Graduate Symposium on New Media, Internet Studies and Global Governance, McGill University (Montreal)
March 2005:
- “Being-in-Common/Minding the Gaps: Massimo Guerrera’s Porus and Darboral.” Visual Culture Panel, Montreal Blue Metropolis Literary Festival (Montreal)
October 2004:
- “Mona Hatoum’s Corporeal Xenology.” [CTRL]: Controlling Bodies, Controlling Spaces (Montreal)
September 2004:
- “Engaging the Terms of Participatory Democracy: Policymaking and the Practice of Community Arts in Canada,” Art of Management and Organisation Conference, University of Essex and ESCP-EAP (Paris)
Spring 2004:
- “Mona Hatoum’s Corps Étranger: Variations on a Xenological Praxis.” Articulations: McGill AHCS Graduate Students Conference (Montreal)
June 1999:
- “The Staging of Desire: a Feminist Portrait of Marie Chouinard.” Estivale 2000, UQAM Dance Dept. (Montreal)
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