Programming
Laetitia de Coninck
Percolation
The Percolation public writing project was created from an investigation of/with Parc Sainte-Cunégonde, where knowledge and experiential knowledge are distilled and incorporated to create short texts in a geopoetic approach, an approach to places that is both sensitive and poetic.
The Percolation Public writing project grew out of an investigation of/with Parc Sainte-Cunégonde, where knowledge and experiential knowledge are diluted and incorporated to create short texts in a geopoetic approach, an approach to places that is both sensitive and poetic. The metaphor of percolation, as a gradual impregnation, a movement both lateral and vertical, a passage through a porous medium, a fissured ground, served as a guide both in exploring the site and in writing the proposed texts. How does the eye penetrate? How does one relate to the diversity of bodies and other materialities present? What emerges from this listening, this touching of the world? With particular attention to the porosity of the site and any latent decomposition, the emphasis is on observation and experience in the field (inscription of the body and senses with the site), but also on my research (history, geography, toponymy) about the site. It's in an experimental perspective, by staying with the process and adopting an attitude of openness and drifting, that thought can flow and words can begin to spread their emancipatory power.
Laetitia de Coninck
As a transdisciplinary artist, Laetitia de Coninck reflects on the living in a contextual and relational approach. Since 2020, she has been living and working on a market-garden farm in the Lanaudière region, and is particularly interested in the intimate relationships between the body, plants and soil as “grounds for life” in an artistic practice that includes performances, installations and hybrid environments. Her work is part of a culture of attention, an ethic of “concern for others” and ecological humanities. A member of La Traversée - a geopoetics workshop with which she has collaborated for several years through photography and writing, Laetitia is currently coordinator for the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire pour le végétal et l'environnement (GRIVE/UQAM). With a master's degree in visual and media arts (UQAM), Laetitia is a recipient of the Reconnect avec le vegétal (ReVe) 2022 scholarship of excellence, and was also a finalist for the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment 2023 graduate scholarship in visual arts.