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SUMMARY:Environmental materials and/as methods
DESCRIPTION:How to mediate the banal?\nInspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece\, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air\, this two-day workshop invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of study. Together\, we will critically engage with the question of material banality through hands-on investigation and collective creation. \nInspired by Rob Nixon’s seminal concept of slow violence\, Davis switches ‘slow’ for ‘banal’\, to focus the attention not only on the temporality of environmental violence\, as incremental and accretive\, but also on its affective and bodily registers. Toxicity scholars have shown that slow violence is both a direct experience and something needing mediation to be understood. We argue that this hard-to-perceive slow violence is even more difficult to communicate when it is also banal. \nAs part of our commitment to exploring creative strategies for mediating banality\, we invite students\, scholars\, and practitioners to investigate everyday material encounters across Montreal in a workshop. \nParticipants will collaboratively act as gatherers\, employing biomaterial capture methods to identify cues of banal violence across the city. Back at Spec Life\, groups will interpret their collected data using a range of methodologies familiar to different groups in the cluster\, including multimodal ethnography\, CLEAR Lab’s DIY microplastic forensics protocol\, and microscopy/material analysis. Following this\, participants will synthesize their insights through a series of speculative map-making exercises\, attempting to situate their discoveries in relation to time and space. The workshop will culminate in the co-production of speculative analog and digital maps\, making visible some of the manifold forms of banal violence present in the city of Montreal. \n  \n🎟️ Space is limited and requires registration: \n \n  \n  Start-up: May 7 11 AM – 12 PM \n  Workshop: May 8 9 AM – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625
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SUMMARY:LePARC Tech Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We will be looking at the light board\, the audio mixer\, and how to use these with some of the software that is accessible on the iMac computer in your work in the Performance Lab. The first section of the workshop introduces participants to the gear and equipment\, and the second half\, we’ll experiment and play around together!\n\nPlease feel free to bring any audio and/or video contents that you would like to experiment with.\nThe same workshop format will be given on both two dates (April 22 &May 7)\n\nNo need for a sign up\, just show up!\n\n\n📅 May 7\n⏱️ 11 AM -1 PM\n📍 Performance lab EV 10.785
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SUMMARY:Environmental materials and/as methods
DESCRIPTION:How to mediate the banal?\nInspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece\, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air\, this two-day workshop invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of study. Together\, we will critically engage with the question of material banality through hands-on investigation and collective creation. \nInspired by Rob Nixon’s seminal concept of slow violence\, Davis switches ‘slow’ for ‘banal’\, to focus the attention not only on the temporality of environmental violence\, as incremental and accretive\, but also on its affective and bodily registers. Toxicity scholars have shown that slow violence is both a direct experience and something needing mediation to be understood. We argue that this hard-to-perceive slow violence is even more difficult to communicate when it is also banal. \nAs part of our commitment to exploring creative strategies for mediating banality\, we invite students\, scholars\, and practitioners to investigate everyday material encounters across Montreal in a workshop. \nParticipants will collaboratively act as gatherers\, employing biomaterial capture methods to identify cues of banal violence across the city. Back at Spec Life\, groups will interpret their collected data using a range of methodologies familiar to different groups in the cluster\, including multimodal ethnography\, CLEAR Lab’s DIY microplastic forensics protocol\, and microscopy/material analysis. Following this\, participants will synthesize their insights through a series of speculative map-making exercises\, attempting to situate their discoveries in relation to time and space. The workshop will culminate in the co-production of speculative analog and digital maps\, making visible some of the manifold forms of banal violence present in the city of Montreal. \n  \n🎟️ Space is limited and requires registration: \n \n  \n  Start-up: May 7 11 AM – 12 PM \n  Workshop: May 8 9 AM – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/environmental-materials-and-as-methods-2/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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