Montreal, Quebec, Canada
I am currently pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in Humanities at Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. Matthias Fritsch, Dr. May Chew and Professor Nicolas Renaud. I am researching the intersectional temporalities of intergenerational (in)justices and contemporary Indigenous performative art, through the lens of digestive economies. Positing relationality at the centre of my theoretical preoccupations, I investigate ways of rearticulating the relationship between the currently living and life-to-come. I am also a member of the editorial board of Esse, a contemporary art Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal-based journal.
https://www.orn.studio/ The rules and norms we decide on today will impact future generations and other forms of life on earth. How can we invite future generations in present negotiations to influence these decisions? How can we make the future present and allow the silenced to be heard? “The speculative imagination is a higher-order human capacity that can productively explore the not-here and the not-yet. But these explorations are limited by prevailing cultural assumptions … There are other areas to explore that, were they taken seriously, could exert sufficient symbolic ‘pull’ to qualify as desirable images of futures. They could then begin to act as ‘mag- nets’ for the realisation of possibilities that are presently obscured.” – Richard Slaughter, Futures Beyond Dystopia