dans le souffle de c., 2022
Installation
Components:
dans le souffle de c., 2022
Video, 1 h
SEX/WORK, 2022
Neon sign
Mia Donovan, Sex Machine 1, 2008
Mia Donovan, Sex Machine 3, 2008
Mia Donovan, Sex Machine 4, 2008
Chromogenic prints
Angela Grauerholz, Intersection Sainte-Catherine et Saint-Laurent, 2005
Video, 10 min
With the invaluable collaboration of the Sex Work Autonomous Committee and the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Special thanks to arkadi lavoie-lachapelle, Alexandre Piral, André Cornellier, Alexis Bellavance and Perte de signal for supporting the project.
Installation
Components:
dans le souffle de c., 2022
Video, 1 h
With Adore Goldman, Latsami, Melina May and Maeve Rose
Camera : Casper Wolski + Noémie Boisclair
Sound : Edith Brunette
Editing : AM Trépanier
Photo archives : Archives de la Ville de Montréal, VM94-
0802201430-004 et VM94-0802201430-009; Google Streetview; Wikipédia
Video archives : Angela Grauerholz, in collaboration with Réjean Myette
SEX/WORK, 2022
Neon sign
Mia Donovan, Sex Machine 1, 2008
Mia Donovan, Sex Machine 3, 2008
Mia Donovan, Sex Machine 4, 2008
Chromogenic prints
Angela Grauerholz, Intersection Sainte-Catherine et Saint-Laurent, 2005
Video, 10 min
With the invaluable collaboration of the Sex Work Autonomous Committee and the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Special thanks to arkadi lavoie-lachapelle, Alexandre Piral, André Cornellier, Alexis Bellavance and Perte de signal for supporting the project.
dans le souffle de c. (2022) contributes to amplify the voices of a new generation of sex workers and activists,
some of which have organized through the Sex Work Autonomous Committee (SWAC). This work combines oral history and archival documents in addressing the issue of gentrification,
tracking the rise of practices and a community once associated with the site where the 2-22 building
stands today, at the corner of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Sainte-Catherine Street.
With this work, I was interested in the vector role of representations and discourses around sex work in Montréal and emphasizes the rise of new ways of living in public space, of embracing, creating, naming and valuing the experiences related to sex work.
This work was created in the context of the exhibition The Radical Imaginary II: Derivative Value curated by Marilou Lemmens, François Lemieux, Bernard Schütze and Erik Bordeleau at VOX, Contemporary Image Center
With this work, I was interested in the vector role of representations and discourses around sex work in Montréal and emphasizes the rise of new ways of living in public space, of embracing, creating, naming and valuing the experiences related to sex work.
This work was created in the context of the exhibition The Radical Imaginary II: Derivative Value curated by Marilou Lemmens, François Lemieux, Bernard Schütze and Erik Bordeleau at VOX, Contemporary Image Center