Sylvaine Chassay Mathilde Geromin Les navigatrices III : et voguent les navigatrices
Sylvaine Chassay et Mathilde Géromin, 2021
Les navigatrices III : et voguent les navigatrices is aimed at older lesbian women who participated in the cultural mediation workshops Les navigatrices and Les navigatrices II conducted by OBORO in partnership with the Centre de solidarité lesbienne (CSL) in 2018 and 2021. Following these experiences, the participants wanted to push their new knowledge of media language further and to create a collective project, from script to production, in order to speak together publicly. A theme was proposed: the desire to discover their common heritage as older lesbians, in order to show and share it.
Under the principles of experimentation, learning and empowerment, the artists and cultural mediators Sylvaine Chassay and Mathilde Geromin offer a group of 7 older lesbian women the possibility to create a common video work. Adopting a sensitive approach guided by listening, the two artists will accompany the project and guide the creative process. The video will be shownpublicly, and a copy will be kept by the Archives lesbiennes du Québec.
Project funded under the Agreement on the cultural development of Montreal between the City of Montreal and the Government of Quebec, for the MTL Cultural Mediations program.
Sylvaine Chassay et Mathilde Géromin, 2021
For more than 20 years, Sylvaine Chassay has been working at the crossroads of contextual and participatory art, inspired by new media. Her multiform, work takes the shape of installations, in-situ and in-socius interventions, as well as performative actions. Our Western human condition and its evolution are the central point of her preoccupation. She observes, scrutinizes and questions our lifestyle, our contradictions, and our collective and individual values, including herself in this process as much as her peers.
Mathilde Geromin aka lamathilde is a French-Canadian video/performance/sound artist based in Montreal. After her studies in Film and a Master’s in Linguistics, lamathilde returned to her first love: sound and images. Her work explores identity through gender and sexuality.
