The Improvising Care Conference takes place from October 4-8 at various venues across Montreal. Please see the day-by-day schedule below or the Arts in the Margins website for additional conference and Flux Festival details.
Schedule
Date: Friday, October, 4, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM to Noon
Location: Room A832-833 (8th floor), Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. W.
Cost: Free10:00am-12:00pm Community Roundtable: A bilingual community roundtable discussing the role of the arts and arts organization in promoting care and developing networks of care.
Date: Saturday, October, 5, 2024
Time: 10:15 AM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room A832-833 (8th floor) and Multimedia Room (MMR) (-2 floor), Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. W.*
Cost: Free*Please Note: To enter the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building on Saturday, October 5, please use the entrance on Aylmer, approximately 100 meters north of Sherbrooke. There will be a Flux Festival staff person sitting inside the locked glass doors. You will need to identify yourself by name with photo ID, state that you are attending the Improvising Care Conference and sign an attendance sheet in order to be let in.
10:15am Welcome Remarks
10:30am Lori Goldston: “Care and the Touring Musician”
11:00am Break
11:15am Marion Schneider: “(De)bugging humans: Queer ecology, hacktivism and care in a digital art practice”
11:45am Keynote: Alessandro Ludovico: “Activist post-truth publishing and human mesh networks”
1:30pm MMR Presentations/demonstrations and discussions**
**Note: Pre-registration for the MMR event is mandatory due to capacity rules.
- Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett (ApoCrita)
- Marinos Koutsomichalis (Studies in Complex Analysis)
- Anthea Caddy and Magda Mayas: “All Voices are heard; a study in improvisation, care and large group ensembles”
- Claire Kwong “Between”
Date: Sunday, October, 6, 2024
Time: 12:45 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Room A832-833 (8th floor), Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. W.*
Cost: Free*Please Note: To enter the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building on Sunday, October 6, please use the entrance on Aylmer, approximately 100 meters north of Sherbrooke. There will be a Flux Festival staff person sitting inside the locked glass doors. You will need to identify yourself by name with photo ID, state that you are attending the Improvising Care Conference and sign an attendance sheet in order to be let in.
12:45pm Rose Butler: “Improvisation with image making (photography / moving image) and the potential of arts practice with interdisciplinary practices”1:15pm Tal Vaizman and Gal Harpaz: “Self-Cultivating Performing-Arts Students: Stress relief, Well-Being, Personal Growth and Savoring Art in support of Academic Success”
2:00pm “Where do we go from here/hear? Towards a toolkit of care”, roundtable with Jenny Pickett, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Alessandro Ludovico, Eric Lewis
3:15pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Guided discussion: Wadada Leo Smith and Eric Lewis
Date: Monday, October, 7, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: La Sala Rossa, 4848 St Laurent Blvd.
Cost: Free9:00am Welcome remarks: Eric Lewis, Peter Burton
9:15am Kevin McNeilly and Geoff Mitchell: “Mal Waldron and the Prosody of Care”
9:45am Break
10:00am Eliza Farber: “Loosening the Grip: Exploring Women’s Mental Health Experiences through Filmmaking”
10:50am Vanessa Blais-Tremblay: “Feminist Partnership Research as Care-work in Quebec’s Music Industry”
11:40am Miguel Esteban: “Fugitive Improvisations of Care: Interpreting Choreographies of Access within the Disability Arts and Culture Classroom”
1:00pm Georgi De Rham: “Agriculture as Art: Tending for the Earth in a Changing Climate”
1:45pm Amanda Smith: “Overcoming Barriers by Creating Care Through the Devised Opera Process”
2:15pm Break
3:00-5:00pm BOOK LAUNCH : Improvising Across Abilities—Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Time: Noon to 5:45 PM
Location: Room A832-833 (8th floor), Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. W.
Cost: Free
12:15pm Keynote, Gabriel Solis: “Improvisation, Agency, and Care in Contemporary Higher Education: A Nexus for Meaningful Change”
1:15pm Break
2:15pm Keynote, Ellen Waterman: “Improvisation as an Ethics of Care in Community-Engaged Research-Creation”
3:15pm Break
3:30-5:45pm AUMI how-to workshop