This event is part of our public + programming
This evening of conversation brings together a group of local artists working across disciplines. Together, we will explore how notions of performance, materiality, and movement are central to each other’s practices, how the very act of doing can drastically alter the very being of our daily environments. Inspired by the lifework of David Wojnarowicz and the writings of Sarah Ahmed, we will try to become disoriented to reorder our spatial awareness, our bonds to objects, and our relationships to each other.
softwarewolfe will set the mood with music before the conversation in the MAI café-bar.
➝ curator and moderator: Didier Morelli
➝ artists: Stephen Schofield, Kuh Del Rosario, Florencia Sosa Rey and Alexandre Morin
Free entry- reservation required
about the artists
Didier Morelli
Didier Morelli is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. He holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University (Chicago, Illinois) and his work has been published in Art Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, C Magazine, Esse Arts + Opinions, Frieze, Spirale, and TDR: The Drama Review amongst others. In addition to being the curatorial research assistant for the career retrospective of the photographer Evergon at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2022), he also curated Artletics (2024), an exhibition currently on view at Artexte on the intersections of Canadian and Quebecois contemporary art and sports.
Stephen Schofield
Stephen Schofield has presented sculptures and drawings in Canada at the Power Plant, le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, la Biennale de Montréal, the Musée national des Beaux-arts du Québec, the National Gallery of Canada, the Dalhousie Art Gallery and in France at the Centre des arts contemporains de Vassivère, l’Aquarium à Valenciennes and the CREDAC in Paris and he has also shown in individual and group shows in New York at the Sculpture Centre, White Columns, John Weber Gallery, Horodner Romley Gallery as well at Hallwalls in Buffalo and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. In 2012 Richard Tuttle curated a solo show of his work at the Cue Foundation New York. Last year, he presented at the Musée national Adrien Dubouché an ensemble of porcelain sculptures produced at CRAFT, which were in Limoges and a solo show at McBride contemporain Montréal.
Kuh Del Rosario
Kuh Del Rosario investigates the potential of everyday materials as collaborators. Inspired by Philippine cosmologies and Indigenous beliefs, tactile memories and the language of things, Del Rosario explores alternative possibilities and world-building. Kuh Del Rosario is a Filipino-Canadian currently based in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, QC. She is a recent MFA graduate from the Sculpture & Ceramics Dept at Concordia University 2023. Del Rosario founded and operated Elmo’s House Artist Residency in Batan, Aklan, Philippines (2017- 2019), and participated in VIVA EXCON 2018 Biennial in Capiz, Philippines. She was a guest curator for Tuloy Tawid, a group exhibition at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie in 2021, and recently completed the 2023 Brucebo Summer Fine Art Residency (Gotland, Sweden). In 2023, Del Rosario has exhibited at Centre Clark (Montréal, QC), Maison de la Culture NDG (Montréal, QC), Ateliers Bellville (Montréal, QC), Stewart Hall Art Gallery (Pointe-Claire, QC), Port Loggia Gallery NSCAD (Halifax, NS), Gallery C103 UWinnipeg (Winnipeg, MB) and Galerie Nicolas Robert (Toronto, ON). Kuh Del Rosario has been selected to take part in the 2023-2026 Montreal Studio program at Fonderie Darling.
Florencia Sosa Rey
Florencia Sosa Rey is a visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal. Through a bodily, somatic approach, it is mainly through abstract drawing and performance that she articulates questions about memory and affect left by people and experiences. She holds a B.A. in Studio Arts from Concordia University, and continues her training in body practice through various advanced workshops. Her personal and collaborative work has been presented in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Sudbury, United States, Iceland and Argentina. In fall 2023, she will take part in the Darling Foundry residency at the Gare de Matapédia in the Gaspé Peninsula. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, ARTCH and LOJIQ. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Festival Viva! Art Action Festival (2021 to date), and works occasionally with community organizations such as Centre Turbine, Agir and CÉDA.
Alexandre Morin
Choreographer, dancer and visual artist Alexandre Morin studied at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, and in 2011 received a developing artist grant from the Hnatyshyn Foundation. As a performer, he has danced for Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Sylvain Émard Danse, Système D/Dominique Porte, Sébastien Provencher and Fleuve-Espace Danse. In 2020 he co-founded Other Animals with Jonathan Goulet. In 2022 Alexandre was selected to take part in an Italy/Quebec dance exchange program offered by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Circuit-Est and the CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea in Bassano.
Organized in the context of the Plasticity/Desires performance by Other Animals, from January 18th to 27th, 2024.