[placeholder], a digital publication by La Centrale launching in December 2022, is thrilled to announce the launch of a Byte-sized Sound Creation residency in partnership with Feminist Media Studio.

Unsettling colonial practices of telling and re-telling history is not just a practice of repatriation and legal ownership, official collection and catalogue. It’s an embodied practice of taking up digital and sonic space, and interfering with the airwaves. When one preserves and engages with history beyond text, narrative and testimony can be experienced as more than a statement of fact: the physicality of the sound of a voice, the intimacy of hearing and listening, embodied traces of experience that breathe, stutter, pause, trip, and hum.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Artist in residence rudi aker will be developing a project that merges oral history with counter-cartography to invite the listener into a space where family history intersects with the topographies of a Wolastoqey community.

rudi aker is a wolastoqew auntie, artist, organizer, and curator from St. Mary’s First Nation in Sitansisk (Fredericton, New Brunswick) and, for now, a guest on Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang (Montreal, QC). Their artistic and research practices center relationality, placehood, and visibility, with a focus on the traversal of (un)colonized spaces through conceptions of counter-cartographies and barrier-breaking. More information.

TECHNICAL PARTNER

THE FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIO supports creative and critical engagements with the gendered, racialized, and classed dimensions of social life under conditions of political struggle. It supports collective and collaborative study, as well as activist, curatorial, and artistic engagements that draw from the legacy and political potency of an intersectional feminist media practice. More information.

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This project is made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Now grant.