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SUMMARY:Weird Words Day at Milieux!
DESCRIPTION:Weird Words Day! Join us for a fun community project in celebration of Milieux Institute’s 10-year anniversary! \nFor the occasion\, we decided to have some fun with a list of  keywords\, concepts\, names (some very abstract) that came out the early days of naming the institute (and most of them are weird!) \nOn March 18\, Marc will drop by the clusters spaces to ask members to record a few words from that list. The recording will be played during our celebratory event. \nIf you are only passing by that day\, just swing by the nerve centre to get your voice recorded! \n  \n🎟️ If you haven’t already\, please make sure you RSVP for this event as spots are limited! \n  \n📅 March 18\, 2026 \n⏱️ All Day \n📍 Milieux Institute \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/weird-words-day-at-milieux/
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SUMMARY:Research Institute Day: Open House at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:On November 12th\, four of Concordia University’s Research Institutes are opening their doors to offer a glimpse into the world of interdisciplinary graduate research. \nJoin us at Milieux for an afternoon of tours\, demos\, workshops\, and research spotlights. This is a great opportunity to connect with our research community\, and learn how collaborative\, non-linear research fuels discovery across the university. \nIf you’re already a member but are curious about the different research clusters\, this is your chance to meet with your peers in an informal setting. Come by and say hi! \nFor the occasion\, Milieux has planned a list of activities designed to showcase the institute’s vibrant research culture . \nAll activities are drop-in!. \n  \nSchedule:\n  \n\n\n1-2 PM: How Research Institute Take Shape (and Shape You) | Panel Discussion at 4TH SPACE\n\n\nLearn how Concordia’s research institutes function\, how they began\, the projects they’re tackling today\, and what’s next. Panelists will share how interdisciplinary collaboration fuels discovery and shapes the graduate research experience. \n  \n\n\n1-4 PM: What the Heck Are You Working On? | Media & Materiality Cluster\, EV 10.775 \n\n\nMedia and materiality members will present their research in a welcoming environment. Each show-and-tell will be 5 minutes in length\, followed by a brief Q&A. \n  \n\n\n2:15-4:30 PM: Project Spotlight and Community Stitch: The Future is Wool | Textiles & Materiality Commons\, EV 10.735\n\n\nThe Textiles and Materiality Cluster will be hosting a community stitch event as part of the “La Laine : matériau d’avenir | The Future is Wool” project\, exploring cross-cultural histories and planet-healing futures of our favourite fibre\, local/regional/Canadian wool! Led by Dr. Kathleen Vaughan\, ” The Future is Wool” is a multi-pronged research\, research-creation\, and public outreach initiative that explores entwined considerations of personal well-being and sustainable planetary futures\, and the role that wool can play in promoting both.  \nTogether\, we’ll create a multi-panel “Bayeux”-style tapestry about our wool. All materials provided\, no previous experience required\, and your ideas and stories invited as part of this Concordia University research and creation adventure. \n  \n\n\n2:30-4 PM: Mini MUTEK Forum | Resource Room\, EV11.705\n\n\nThe Machine Agencies Research Group will present works from their exhibition “Machinic Encounters” presented at the MUTEK Forum earlier this year. \n  \n\n\n2:30 PM & 3:30 PM: Milieux Guided Tour | Meeting Point Atrium on the 11th floor.\n\n\nJoin one of our 45-minute Guided Tour and learn more about the institute and the research clusters\, discover the different labs and studios and get a glimpse into the institute’s research culture by meeting faculty\, students and staff onsite. \n  \n\n\n2:30 PM: “Mess and Methods: Outcomes of rapidly-deployable composite ethnography” | Speculative Life Cluster \, EV 10.625\n\n\n The Concordia Ethnography Lab will discuss the outcome of the Summer Institute “Mess and Methods”. Led by Dr. Kregg Hetherington\, this year’s Summer Institute focused on the ethnographic exploration of  Montreal’s waterways over the course of two weeks. The Montreal waterways research group led an hand-on session over multiple sites around the St Lawrence River to introduce participants to Composite Ethnography. At the end of these two weeks\,  the group showcase the results of their explorations in a closing exhibition open to the public. \n  \n\n\n3 PM : “How do you play with nostalgia?”  | TAG Lab \, EV 11.435\n\n\nIn this research spotlight\, PhD Candidate and Concordia Public Scholar\, Richy Srirachanikorn will talk about his research around nostalgia. Richy’s research looks at how people use technologies to recompose the past not for the way it was\, but the way it could have been. Richy is also a founding member of the Nostagain Network\, the first student-led research collective in North America exploring the generative uses of nostalgia. \n\n  \n\n\n3:15 PM :  “What a Year at TAG Looks Like” | TAG Lab \, EV 11.435\n\n\nMarc Lajeunesse will introduce TAG and look back at highlights and key events from the past year. \n\n  \n\n\n4-4:30 PM :  “Introduction to LePARC” | LePARC Performance Lab\, EV 10.785\n\n\nCluster Co-Director Lília Mestre introduces the LePARC performance lab and invites attendees to a surprise concert. \n\n  \n\n\n4:30-5 PM: Closing Talk | “Turning Data into Action for a Sustainable Future” | Milieux Atrium EV. 11\n\n\nPhD student Faisal Shennib will present his research and invite the audience to rethinking how cities handle waste and move toward a circular economy. His work looks at how everyday data and smart technologies can help people and communities make better\, greener choices\, from waste-sorting tools to smarter recycling systems. In this closing talk\, Faisal will share his story of discovery at Concordia — how curiosity about sustainability\, technology\, and design evolved into research that aims to make cities cleaner\, smarter\, and more sustainable for everyone. \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/research-institute-day-open-house-at-milieux/
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SUMMARY:Embodied Interventions: Ruminations on Plurality
DESCRIPTION:Embodied Interventions\, LePARC’s signature event\, is coming back for its 6th edition on May 17 & 18!  \nCurated by Esteban Donoso and Michele Fiedler\, this year’s program\, titled Ruminations on Plurality\, will consist of a series of exchanges\, workshops and performances where participants can act as an intruder’s eye on each other’s proposals in order to signal towards questions\, concerns and opacities and to provide different perspectives. We will approach performance through ruminating\, as in deploying repetitive ways of relating to our environments and processing information. By attending to the plurality of identities that dwell within our hybrid bodies\, we aim to get in touch with movements and voices that display multiple influences.  \n​ \nOn May 17 and May 18\, public presentations of these processes will be shown at 4 different venues around the downtown Concordia University campus. These presentations are free\, and open to the public. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOPS: \nHannah Schallert – “Improvisation and Creation Workshop: Talking and Moving With Animation Software” \n \nThis workshop will introduce participants to a methodology for improvisation and choreographic creation inspired by the movement concepts and tools of computer animation software. Drawing on close embodied study and iterative group discussion\, we will attend to the language and imagery of specific video excerpts from online software tutorials and interviews with animators as the jumping off point for generating choreographic gestures\, phrases\, and states. The workshop will include small group exploration as well as collective sharing and discussion of our experiences and findings.\n\nThis workshop requires you to sign up in advance by emailing hannah.schallert@gmail.com\nMore information about the workshop can be found here.\n.\n.\n.\nAybüke Özel + Yuki Kéké Tam – “Gestures of Care Workshop”\nOur workshop has two parts: discussion and movement. We will start with a common gesture of care—the sharing of food. While participants snack and drink tea\, we will begin by discussing care and its meanings. What does it look like? Is it big or small or in-between? What does it mean to each of us\, personally? We will investigate the definition\, spectrum\, limitations\, and embodied gestures of care we all carry through conversation. While theoretical language and ideas are encouraged\, this is meant to establish camaraderie\, comfort\, and trust between participants. The second part of this workshop will be movement-based. Participants will be led in bodily explorations rooted in vocabularies of dance and the everyday.\n  \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n🗓May 17-18\, 2025\n📍Video Production Studio\, LePARC Performance Lab\, Black Box\, Mini Box\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/embodied-interventions-ruminations-on-plurality/
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: UKAI Projects Exhibition at Milieux
DESCRIPTION: If you found yourself shipwrecked and washed ashore\, what three things would you most wish to have with you? How would you make a new home where you beached?  \n  \nJoin us on April 11 and April 12 for the public opening of Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. During this residency\, UKAI Projects will invite three Montreal-based artists (see their profiles below) to make a home among remnants brought by their team. \nMore about the project \n  \nEXPERIENCE SHIPWRECK:  \nThis is not a passive exhibition. Shipwreck demands your presence\, your interaction\, and your imagination\, inviting you to actively shape the narrative. Now it’s your turn to engage with the culmination of this 12-day residency and to step into this evolving landscape\, navigate this liminal space\, where devastation meets creative resilience. \n  \n\nJoin us on April 11 -12 to step into this strange world of devastation\, joy\, and reinhabitation.   \nFriday\, April 11\, 5 PM – 7 PM \nOpening Reception (Please RSVP to confirm your attendance). \nSaturday\, April 12:  10 AM – 4 PM \nShipwreck opened to the public \n\n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \n \nGabriel Junqueira (Fortaleza\, Brazil / 1992) is a multimedia artist who explores relations between body\, technology and materiality in media such as digital images\, sculptures and installations. \nHis recent research revolves around the relation between built spaces and nature through the creation of landscapes in 3D architectural visualization software\, commonly used in the real estate development market to simulate structures to be built. \nSeeking inspiration from corporate architecture and landscaping concepts\, the artist creates impossible locations\, where figurative elements are rearranged to the point of abstraction. \nAs an extension of his visual arts research\, since 2018 he has been dedicated to the musical project “Naves Cilíndricas”. In 2020\, he released two albums: “Imagens de Desastres Em High Resolution” on the Meia Vida label and “Névoa” via the Domina Label. \n  \nMeghan Moe Beitiks (she/they) is an artist and designer working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. They analyze perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site\, history\, emotions\, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. \nThey were a Fulbright Student Fellow\, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists\, a MacDowell Colony fellow\, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Their work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada\, among other resources. They received their BA in Theater Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, and their MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \n  \nCredit: Riley Mydansky\nEija Loponen-Stephenson‘s work predominantly concerns the relationship between human movement and urban architectural spaces. Through practice-based artistic inquiry and experimental pedagogy\, she examines how body-building interactions can reveal hidden power structures programmed into the built environment. She holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) and a MA in Art Education at Concordia University. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT UKAI PROJECTS: \nUKAI Projects is a Canadian cultural organization whose mission is “culture for what’s coming”. Through artistic and cultural production\, UKAI provides publics with opportunities to inhabit massive social\, technological\, and ecological volatility and to begin to make a home in a changing world.  We seek and test out modes of cultural production that are in the right relation to the world we are making. \nOur home is a 7\,000 sq-ft abandoned office space in downtown Toronto where we host exhibitions\, residencies\, workshops\, parties\, and more. \nMuch of our work is global\, having recently created or presented work in Merida (MX)\, Geneva (CH)\, Beijing (CN)\, Dzaleka (MW)\, Cairo (EG)\, Berlin (DE)\, London (GB)\, Bristol (GB)\, Milan (IT)\, Reykjavik (IS)\, Helsinki (FI)\, Oslo (NO)\, and numerous locations across the United States and Canada. \nOur work explores algorithmic systems\, rising authoritarianism\, and climate damage through embodied and immersive experiences. We call into question the appropriateness of ossified ideologies and routines to make sense of these changes and invite audiences to undersign themselves to what happens next. \n  \n                                
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/shipwreck-ukai-projects-opening-exhibition-at-milieux/
LOCATION:milieux institute
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SUMMARY:[CALL OUT TO THE CONCORDIA & MILIEUX COMMUNITY] Participate in the UKAI Projects Shipwreck Residency
DESCRIPTION: If you found yourself shipwrecked and washed ashore\, what three things would you most wish to have with you? How would you make a new home where you beached?  \n  \nJoin us on April 9 and April 10 and engage with Shipwreck\, a durational work under development by UKAI Projects at Milieux Institute. This immersive and interactive experience explores the powerful act of making home amidst the ruins of potential futures\, exploring how we navigate ecological\, cultural\, and technological devastation. \nFrom April 6-9 three Montreal-based artists (see their profiles below) invited by UKAI Projects will be tasked to make a home among remnants brought by their team. Now\, it’s your turn to engage with the work. We call all Milieux members and the broader Concordia community to join us and explore how we can rebuild a future collectively. As the three artists finalize their intervention\, we invite  you all to walkthrough the installation and interact with their work. You’ll have until the next day\, April 10\, 5 PM to intervene. \n  \n \n  \nSHIPWRECK CONCEPTS & THEMES: \nShipwreck refuses nostalgia and embraces the aesthetics of impossibility—an acknowledgment that some ecological realities defy full representation or comprehension. This project borrows from mutual aid\, commoning\, and craft as a survival practice\, understanding that culture is built not in ideal conditions but in adaptive\, emergent responses to crisis.   \nMaking Culture from Ruins  \nShipwreck does not mourn the past or rebuild the future—it works in the already-present\, in the detritus of histories\, technologies\, and ecologies. It takes inspiration from the Already-AI Commons\, the entanglement of human and non-human agencies\, and the latent potential in what has been cast aside. Participants are invited to work with materials that have been displaced or discarded\, to engage with emergent properties rather than fixed intentions.   \nTemporal Collapse  \nThe project layers deep time with contemporary crises. Just as cave drawings in the distant past gesture toward a way of being that is now illegible to us\, Shipwreck asks artists to gesture forward—to create conditions that a future observer might find equally opaque yet strangely compelling.   \nPlay as Agency  \nRather than imposing narratives\, artists will work within constraints\, treating materials and artifacts as quasi-agents in their own right. The work will evolve not as simulation\, but as participation—as an open-ended engagement with a shared cultural and ecological crisis.   \nProcess  \nThree artists from UKAI Projects will collaborate with three Montreal-based artists to create evolving\, participatory scenarios that blur the boundary between creator and audience. The public will be invited to engage with and alter the space\, shaping it in ways that resist the idea of authorship as fixed and complete.  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nMeghan Moe Beitiks (she/they) is an artist and designer working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. They analyze perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site\, history\, emotions\, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. \nThey were a Fulbright Student Fellow\, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists\, a MacDowell Colony fellow\, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Their work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada\, among other resources. They received their BA in Theater Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, and their MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \nCredit: Riley Mydansky\nEija Loponen-Stephenson‘s work predominantly concerns the relationship between human movement and urban architectural spaces. Through practice-based artistic inquiry and experimental pedagogy\, she examines how body-building interactions can reveal hidden power structures programmed into the built environment. She holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) and a MA in Art Education at Concordia University. \n  \n  \n \nGabriel Junqueira (Fortaleza\, Brazil / 1992) is a multimedia artist who explores relations between body\, technology and materiality in media such as digital images\, sculptures and installations. His recent research revolves around the relation between built spaces and nature through the creation of landscapes in 3D architectural visualization software\, commonly used in the real estate development market to simulate structures to be built. Seeking inspiration from corporate architecture and landscaping concepts\, the artist creates impossible locations\, where figurative elements are rearranged to the point of abstraction. As an extension of his visual arts research\, since 2018 he has been dedicated to the musical project “Naves Cilíndricas”. In 2020\, he released two albums: “Imagens de Desastres Em High Resolution” on the Meia Vida label and “Névoa” via the Domina Label. \n  \n                      
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-out-to-the-concordia-milieux-community-participate-in-the-ukai-project-shipwreck-residency/
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