This event is part of our public + programming
“I will move toward you with the eyes of a Deaf person,” sings Richard Desjardins. And what if it were with the eyes of a blind person? How can one approach music in sign languages when one is blind? More generally, how can blind people appreciate Deaf art? And even more broadly, how can we learn from one another in order to develop new relationships to art? Signed languages are visual and non-auditory, while many blind people experience the world primarily through hearing and therefore cannot fully access sign languages through listening alone. For several years, Véro Leduc has been exploring Deaf and crip creation, seeking to expand the ways art can be created and experienced across different abilities. Along the way, she invites each of us to explore new relationships to art not by pretending to be blind or Deaf, but by tasting new ways of being in the world. The performance Touche la musique / Touch the Music is an invitation to discover signed art through touch.
Accessibility Information:
- Véro will present in LSQ (Quebec Sign Language). Interpretation will be provided in LSQ–French, LSQ–ASL, and Protactile.
- The venue is accessible to wheelchair users.
- Please feel free to contact us if you have any accessibility requests [email protected] or 514-701-4068
- The activity lasts approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes: 15 minutes for welcoming remarks, 20 minutes for the performance, 30 minutes for the guided visit and 30 minutes for an open discussion.
Véro Leduc will perform a music piece using signed language. She will move her body in different ways, create sounds and communicate poetic words in Quebec Sign Language (LSQ). The audience will be invited to participate in a cre-expansive way, that is, to expand the work through co-creation. There are several ways to take part:
- As movers: These participants will be invited to draw inspiration from Véro’s performance to move. Some may choose to reinterpret LSQ signs in their own way. Movers can decide whether they prefer to move solo (solo-movers) or to be touched (tactile-movers).
- As touchers: These participants will be invited to touch the tactile-movers in order to experience Véro’s performance through them.
- As precious ones: These participants are invited simply to be present.
All ways of moving, touching, and simply being present are welcome.
Following the performance, there will be a guided tour of the artwork Signer son fado.
→ Free entry – no reservation required.
ABOUT+
A multidisciplinary artist and researcher-creator originally from Tiohtià:ke | Mooniyang | Montréal, Véro Leduc lives in Morin-Heights, where she creates in her studio while teaching and leading various projects in Québec and internationally. Her main practices include video, painting, performance, and Deaf music, which she explores through a range of approaches and themes such as Deafhood, deconstruction, becoming and slowness. Her work has been presented across North America and internationally, including in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Mexico, Portugal, and Japan. A professor in the Faculty of Communication at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she teaches in the Disability and Deafhood program, which she co-founded. She holds the Canada Research Chair on the Cultural Citizenship of Deaf People and Cultural Equity Practices, and co-directs the Disability, Deafhood and Innovation Laboratory. Her work focuses in particular on the artistic practices of people with diverse abilities, Deaf music and cultural equity practices.