Marie Samuel LevasseurMultiple Narratives and Sensory Voices: The Methodology of Chatter Applied in Audiodescription and Videodescription
Marie Samuel Levasseur, Les Bavardes (détail de l’installation), 2021-2022
Research-creation residency as part of Interrogating Access 2: From Learning to Action.
Artist-in-Residence Presentation: Wednesday, October 18, 2023, from 5 pm to 7 pm
As part of her research-creation master’s degree completed in 2021 Marie Samuel Levasseur developed a creative methodology called “chatting,” 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.
From Learning to Action: Interrogating Access 2 is a collaborative project between Spectrum Productions, the artist-run centre OBORO and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC). Drawing from the Interrogating Access series, which was jointly hosted by OBORO and Spectrum Productions in 2019-2020, the project stems from a mutual desire to actively apply accessibility tools in visual and media arts milieus.
Learn more about the residency project here and about the previous edition here.
Marie Samuel Levasseur, Les Bavardes (détail de l’installation), 2021-2022
Marie Samuel Levasseur leads a multidisciplinary practice combining life and art and develops a collaborative creation approach through chatting. She uses multiplicity and micro-narrative to counter the unspeakable and to account for the plurality of identities in the expression of self-narratives related to significant life experiences. As a curator and editor at the Centre for Arts and Social Innovation of the National Theatre School of Canada, she participates in the development of laboratories and knowledge-sharing platforms aimed at well-being through creation. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM and has completed exchanges in film at Université de Montréal and in micro-editing at EESI Poitiers-Angoulême. She has also completed graduate studies in pedagogy, focusing on accessibility and ableism, and is currently pursuing research in Native Studies.
