7th Edition
Contemporary
Art Event
June 12 —
September 11
2022
2022
7th Edition
Contemporary
Art Event
June 12 —
September 11
2022
Closing Day

Closing Day

Orange clôture

September 11,2022
10:00 am–5:00 pm

Boisé des Douze

Jardin Daniel A. Séguin

Free of charge

A final opportunity to visit all of the exhibitions, meet the curators, attend the artists’ performances, and participate in a number of activities.

Écologies carcérales et herboristerie politique : discussion with Rebecca Francis Ladida et Amélie-Anne Mailhot

Beyond the consumption of medicinal plants and the merchandising that is too often associated with plants, this discussion probes the practices of reciprocal care between plants and human beings, which are established in the sensitive search for multiple connections. Together, art and care create the conditions for a living relationship with the plant world through the use of attention techniques; this workshop opens a dialogue on this question, which, in this context, deploys new possibilities for living beings and thus for “care.”

Schedule: 

10:00 am – FULL
Take a walk with W8banaki knowledge keeper Michel Durand Nolett in the Boisé des Douze. Bring a hat, a reusable water bottle, and comfortable shoes.

Noon  Meet the curators at EXPRESSION

2:30 pm
La gravité organise les hasards. J’ai aimé manger la peau rugueuse des poires, a performance by Maude Arès, and Corps roca, a performance by Ileana Hernandez, at Jardin Daniel A. Séguin

3:30 pm
Écologies carcérales et herboristerie politique : discussion with Rebecca Francis Ladida et Amélie-Anne Mailhot

Shuttle bus from Berri-UQAM station, Montréal
475 boulevard de Maisonneuve Est, Montréal, Qc, H2L 5C4
Departure: 11:00 am / Return: 6:00 pm

Reservations: education@expression.qc.ca or 450 773-4209

Amélie-Anne Mailhot is an herbalist and post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Planthropolab (University of Ottawa) and the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le végétal et l’environnement (UQAM). Her doctoral dissertation was titled “L’art pour manger: le complexe de l’autonomie alimentaire innue comme mémoire de liberté politique dans les lieux de friction des habitations politiques du Nitassinan” (Art for eating: the complex of Innu food autonomy as memory of political freedom in sites of friction of Nitassinan political structures). She researches subsistence and care practices that counter extractive and colonial uses of territories and their inhabitants.

Michel Durand Nolett is the land manager for the Conseil des Abénakis d’Odanak. In 2007, he founded the Bureau environnement et terre d’Odanak (Mziaow8gan Aki), which has developed diversified expertise to meet the community’s needs. Trained in forestry, he has a practice deeply connected to the territory (Ndakina) and to ancestral knowledge. He is committed to transmitting the knowledge of the W8banakiak, and he shares his time in the community of Odanak with the museum by giving talks, leading forest walks, and conducting workshops. He is the author of Plantes du soleil levant Waban Aki (2008).