The sound, video, performative site-specific intervention Nous sommes au cinéma will be presented in Cinéma moderne’s projection room. In order to highlight the very sensorial sense of presence in this piece, the site-specific experience is necessary. The relationships between seeing, listening and touching are tightened by a confusing sense of what is real or not. In order to address the huge challenges that are linked to the environmental collapse, I strongly believe that it is not only o...

Organizer: Akihisa Iwaki ∆ (Kindai University, Japan)Scented Acrylic Colors (https://camp-fire.jp/projects/777431/view) is a scented acrylic paint released at the end of 2024.This innovative product is a collaboration between @aroma’s "100% pure natural essential oils" and Holbein’s high-quality acrylic paints, Acrylic Color (Heavy Body). The project began with a meeting between Masaki Taniguchi (affectionately known as Maa-chan), a visually impaired painter, and scenting design...

Organizers: Tim Horvath ∆ with Matthew Kirtkpatrick ∆ (Warren Wilson MFA Program in Writing/Phillips Exeter English Department, Stratham, USA)In this creative writing workshop, the leaders–writers whose recent projects push the boundaries of how language can be used to describe and evoke the non–visual (sound, scent, and texture)--will share writing activities designed to guide participants into fresh linguistic and conceptual zones. After reading from their own work, workshop leaders ...

Organizer: Sheliza Ladhani √ (Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science, University of Calgary) • Stephanie Tyler √ (Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Canada)• Sophia Marlow √ (Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Canada)• Mairi McDermott √ (Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada)• Jennifer D. Adams √ (Canada Research Chair, University of Calgary, Canada)• Kathleen C. Sitter ∆ (Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Social Work, Un...

Organizer: Abou Farman ∆ (Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, NYC, USA)This workshop is designed to help us think-feel our way into such questions as the following: How do we sense absence? How may we sense in ways we didn’t know we could, beyond the normative, secular entrainment of ‘our’ sensory apparatus? How might such possibilities and capabilities orient us differently to death and the afterlife?Based on my academic research, work in performance and Butoh, as we...