A joint residency at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, OBORO art centre and at Spectrum Productions.
Multiple Narratives and Sensory Voices: The Methodology of Chatter Applied in Audiodescription and Videodescription .
” As part of her research-creation master’s degree completed in 2021 Marie Samuel Levasseur developed a creative methodology called “chatting / small talk,” a way of co-creating through multiplicity, micro-narrative and presence.’As part of her research-creation master’s degree completed in 2021 Marie Samuel Levasseur developed a creative methodology called “chatting / small talk,” a way of co-creating through multiplicity, micro-narrative and presence.
During her residency as part of the Interrogating Access 2: From Learning to Action project, which will span several months, she will implement this methodology through various stages of the audio- and videodescription process. Marie Samuel Levasseur plans to reflect on the notion of accessibility of alternative textuality through an intersectional approach (neurodiversity, gender, accent, race, origin, class); to explore plural points of view in order to question notions of neutrality and truth in videodescription; to experiment with a collaborative artistic practice of audio- and videodescription; and to explore and test a variety of renderings and dissemination tools.
She wishes to offer the user-audience a selection of narrations according to two criteria: 1-the sensory aspect of the voice and 2-the personality of the narrators. She hopes to give a sense of agency to the user-audience and to the narrators through choice and through a human narrative presence. ”