L'Université autrement : Dans les cafés crée des lieux de rencontre et les met à la disposition des citoyens intéressés à continuer d'apprendre ou d'approfondir leur engagement à la faveur de discussions publiques et collectives. Ces cafés permettent à des individus de divers horizons et réalités de se rencontrer, dans un cadre où tous les gens et toutes les perspectives sont les bienvenus.
The University of the Streets Café creates gathering places for community members to pursue lifelong learning and engagement in the form of collective discussions. They are an opportunity for people of diverse backgrounds and realities to meet, where all people and perspectives are welcome.
What influence does language have on the art and artistic practices that emerge from a franco-anglo-allophonic city like Montreal? Does a multi lingusitic context enable or exclude community involvement. Should artists be negotiating language politics or have a status that is ‘above the law’ for public expression? What gets diluted, warped or altogether lost in translation when we try to straddle two or more linguistic communities? What do we gain when we view translation as a creative and political proces? During this public conversation we will explore these questions with the help of local artists who base their practice in language and communicating with others.
Guests:
Sylvie Lachance is the co-artistic director (with Jacob Wren) of PME-ART, a Montreal-based interdisciplinary group. Their productions includes « En français comme en anglais, it’s easy to criticize », « Unrehearsed Beauty/Le Génie des autres » & « La famille se crée en copulant / Families Are Formed Through Copulation » which have been seen in Canada and abroad. Sylvie has also been artistic director of Les 20 jours du théâtre à risque & MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels).
Karen Elaine Spencer is a wanderer, a loiterer, a rider of trains, a circulator of dreams. She takes the mundane events of ordinary life and mines these for their poetic underpinnings, taking time, taking time. Spencer's work has been presented in various art centres throughout Canada and Europe with recent exhibitions being: "Votre rêve dans mon oreille" at le Lobe in Chicoutimi, "lit de pain" in Paris, and "metro rider" at La Centrale in Montreal.
Karen Trask is a multidisciplinary visual artist, creating works in sculpture, artist books, video, printmaking and performance. Born and raised on a farm in southern Ontario, she has spent half her life in Quebec, between Québec City and now Montreal. She received a Master's degree in sculpture at Concordia University and has exhibited extensively in Canada and abroad. She just completed an interactive sound installation/performance at La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse and is currently dismantling over a hundred dictionaries for an exhibition to be held at la Galerie d'art d'Outremont in March.
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