Marie Samuel LevasseurMultiple Narratives and Sensory Voices: The Methodology of Chatter Applied in Audiodescription and Videodescription
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Marie Samuel Levasseur, Les Bavardes (détail de l’installation), 2021-2022
Research-creation residency as part of Interrogating Access 2: From Learning to Action.
Artist-in-Residence Presentation: Wednesday, October 18, 2023, from 5 pm to 7 pm
As part of her research-creation master’s degree completed in 2021 Marie Samuel Levasseur developed a creative methodology called “chatting,” a way of co-creating through multiplicity, micro-narrative and presence.
During her residency as part of the Interrogating Access 2: From Learning to Action project, which will span several months, she will implement this methodology through various stages of the audio- and videodescription process. Marie Samuel Levasseur plans to reflect on the notion of accessibility of alternative textuality through an intersectional approach (neurodiversity, gender, accent, race, origin, class); to explore plural points of view in order to question notions of neutrality and truth in videodescription; to experiment with a collaborative artistic practice of audio- and videodescription; and to explore and test a variety of renderings and dissemination tools.
She wishes to offer the user-audience a selection of narrations according to two criteria: 1-the sensory aspect of the voice and 2-the personality of the narrators. She hopes to give a sense of agency to the user-audience and to the narrators through choice and through a human narrative presence.
From Learning to Action: Interrogating Access 2 is a collaborative project between Spectrum Productions, the artist-run centre OBORO and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC). Drawing from the Interrogating Access series, which was jointly hosted by OBORO and Spectrum Productions in 2019-2020, the project stems from a mutual desire to actively apply accessibility tools in visual and media arts milieus.
Learn more about the residency project here and about the previous edition here.
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Marie Samuel Levasseur, Les Bavardes (détail de l’installation), 2021-2022
Marie Samuel Levasseur leads a multidisciplinary practice combining life and art and develops a collaborative creation approach through chatting. She uses multiplicity and micro-narrative to counter the unspeakable and to account for the plurality of identities in the expression of self-narratives related to significant life experiences. As a curator and editor at the Centre for Arts and Social Innovation of the National Theatre School of Canada, she participates in the development of laboratories and knowledge-sharing platforms aimed at well-being through creation. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM and has completed exchanges in film at Université de Montréal and in micro-editing at EESI Poitiers-Angoulême. She has also completed graduate studies in pedagogy, focusing on accessibility and ableism, and is currently pursuing research in Native Studies.