Marie Samuel Levasseur pursues a multidisciplinary artistic practice that combines art and life, and develops a collaborative approach to creation through small talk. She uses multiplicity and micro-narrative to hinder the unspeakable, and to account for the plurality of identities in the expression of self-narratives linked to life’s defining experiences.
For 10 years, she held various positions at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, then worked as curator and editor at the Centre for Arts and Social Innovation of the National Theatre School of Canada, where she participated in the development of laboratories and knowledge-sharing platforms aimed at well-being through creation. She is now a member of the duo Place Courage, alongside her practice. Place Courage works at the intersection of art, truth and justice.
A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal with a master’s degree in visual and media arts, she co-directs creative workshops in micro-publishing and zines. She completed a creative internship at the École européenne supérieure de l’image de Poitiers Angoulême (France); a creative seminar in film studies at the Université de Montréal; post-graduate studies in pedagogy, focusing on accessibility and ableism; and is currently pursuing a degree in Indigenous Studies.
She lives and work in Tio’tia:ke – Mooniyang – Montreal