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Art/Re-search (T)here, 2018-2021

Art/Re-search (T)here, my Social Science and Humanities Research Council Funded Doctoral Project, is an emergent virtual learning community project that emerges at the intersections of transdisciplinarity, emergence, collaboration, art and re-search. For more information, please visit:  http://artandresearchthere.com/

 

 

Imagine Action Youth Council, 2020-Ongoing

I am the founder and artist facilitator of Place des Artistes de Farrellton’s (PAF) Imagine Action Youth Council, a Youth-led Organizing Committee that develops, initiates and facilitates pop-up community art projects and events. Regular gatherings offer a democratic, responsive, playful and sensitive space geared towards fostering creative, critical and participatory citizens of the world. Youth are encouraged to play, make, experiment and pose questions. Community connections and problem-solving, alongside holistic self-expression, is the basis of an emergent program designed for and by youth. The Imagine Action Youth Council has organized workshops, collaborative art projects, and playful events focused on activism and community-building. So far, this has included three community art projects which I have co-curated and directed as an artist-facilitator. 

Earth rock warriors (Collaboration with many Wakefield Community Members), 2020

Hybrid Pet Portraits (collaboration with Alexandre, Anouk, Celeste, Leia, Lily, Madeleine, Mordecai, Noah, Shayla, Sophie, Sylke, and Will), 2021

Imagine Action (Collaboration with Patrick Thompson, Sarah Doyle, Anita Lambton, Anouk, Celeste, Leia, Lily, Madeleine, Michelle, Mordecai, Noah, Sylke, and Will), 2022

 

(Un)school (collaboration with Cara Tierney), 2018

We were artists/educators/curators/facilitators/learners who worked with the Ottawa community to create (un)schooling experiences.  (Un)schooling means to pay close attention to our innate inclination to learn. It also requires us to unlearn the systemic regulations that limit these processes. For us, critical pedagogy and relationality are crucial. (Un)school included workshops, spaces, and collaborations which honoured community-led alternative education, consultation, participation and emergence. Together, we worked towards (un)learning gender & sexuality, mobility & corporeality, and fear & institutionalization in Ottawa’s Arts Court and surrounding public spaces. 

 

 

Summerhill on Major’s Hill  (collaboration with Adam Brown), 2016

Housed in what was formerly known as Blink Gallery in Ottawa’s Major’s Hill Park, Summerhill on Major’s Hill was a temporary arts-based democratic school inspired by the free school movement of the late 1960s. Through community meetings and consultations, and with the help of dedicated community-members and volunteers, we facilitated building projects, events and workshops based on participatory spaces, self-directed education, conflict resolution and notions of freedom. To watch a video compiled of facilitators’ and participants’ recordings of a slack-line experiment, please visit: http://culturalengineering.ca/genevieve-cloutier-adam-brown-summerhill-on-majors-hill/

 

 

Performing g(hosts), 2013-2014

Performing g(hosts) inquired into the silencing of the First Nations Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) ancestry that my grandmother claimed through interdisciplinary art practices. I looked towards the intergenerational narratives of my grandmother, mother, and I through experimental documentary film practice, sculpture, performance, photography, installation, writing, and bookmaking and found absurdity, liminality, movements and g(hosts) amongst spaces of liminality. 

 

 

The Hollow Land, 2010

The Hollow Land inquired into the arts and craft movement through a distopic lens and did so via paint, text and the recreation of a Frank Lloyd Wright design. The latter was reinterpreted and created with soft wood that had been damaged by the pine beetle epidemic. The chair, without a seat, positioned itself between placidness and movement, along with an inability to stay seated at times of environmental crises.

 

 

Here They Said, 2009

Here They Said was a community-based video project that inquired into contested spaces in Vancouver through emergent and participatory practices. Front Magazine put out a call to action for the people of Vancouver to join together in specific locations and times. They were invited to bring something to the spaces and were instructed to be as theatrical or self-possessed as they wished. The Olympic Village’s Habitat Island and Victory Square Park served as two of the stages/spaces to speak to. Improvised performances, conversations with passersby, mending, guitar playing, and writing a letter to one of the oldest trees in the city were just a few of the happenings to emerge. Please find the links included, where you can view an excerpt of the performance done on Habitat Island, as well as a compiled video of the Victory Square Park gathering.

 

 

My mother worked in a factory, 2008

I curated My mother worked in a factory which included works by artists Caroline Ballhorn, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Benjamin Larose, and myself. Each work explored concepts situated at gendered tensions and productions, whereby objects and bodies are all at once divided and consumed, labeled and put into question.

 

 

Talking Head (performance view), 2008

Talking Head was performed at VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver, BC and inquired into development, consumerism and information transmission. In it, a reporter and a viewer engaged in a disconnected conversation whereby no one was listened to or understood.