Time: 5-7 PM

Limit of participants: 10

Language: Bilingual

Registrations closed

More like a rest-stop than a work-shop, this event is inspired by Progression, Salima’s installation and research at Ada X. Participants will collect sounds, songs, and soundscapes that put them at ease. We will focus on the theme of comfort: please think about a sound that symbolizes comfort for you to share with the group.

This collection will become the community-generated playlist for an unusual listening experience: using transducer kits (an electronic device that converts energy from one form to another), we will hear this playlist as a conversion into vibrations. 

The workshop is open to people of all ages. Young participants should be accompanied by an adult. 

*This workshop prioritizes participation from BIPOC and people who identify as Deaf, Mad, Neurodivergent or Disabled.

Born in Vancouver in 1986, Salima Punjani is a multisensory artist whose mediums include social sculpture, vibrotactile, spatial sound, digital video and photography and relational aesthetics. Her artistic approach is rooted in trauma-informed care and disability justice. She uses multiple senses to expand the possibilities to welcome Disabled people into art spaces by creating artful experiences of empathy, intimacy, and connection. Her recent work explores themes such as softness and anti-urgency, collective grief, isolation and resocialization processes related to COVID-19, rest as resistance to systemic injustice as well as how medical data can be subverted into finding human connection rather than pathologies. She holds a B.A. in Communications and Political Science from Carleton University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University and a Master’s in Social Work from McGill University with research focusing on the intersection of the arts and care work.