Hackfest : To Our Prostheses !
@ M-A-I (3680 Jeanne-Mance Street)
Montreal QC H2X 2K5, Canada
May 26th 12pm-4:30pm
May 27th 10am-4:30pm
RSVP to marieachille2 A T g mail.com
before Tuesday May 23
As part of their residency at AdaX, the Collective “A Nos Prothèses” invites you to a hackfest at M-A-I, May 26 and 27, 2023.
A hackfest is a convivial and festive, often feminist and speculative version of hackhatons. This hackfest will allow participants to build, tinker, repair, subvert, affirm, deepen (…) our relationship to our prostheses (somatic, digital, urban and political) by approaching them as ‘occulted commons’.
Among the values we privilege: feminist, decolonial and antiableist forms of hacking, crip time, (s)low tech. This hackfest invites a collective contemplation of what diversity, accessibility, intimacy and conviviality mean in the way we live and dream our prostheses.
Format:
Inspired by the Open Space methodology, the agenda of activities will be built together. On site, there will also be island/spaces dedicated to drawing, story sharing, sewing, doodling, writing and three-dimensional modeling (…), using recycled or inexpensive materials.
These islands will allow us to share stories of prostheses, and to make and reinvent our ordinary prostheses (e.g., denture making, cane-recording pole hybridization, Braille graffiti, personal charging station)…
Spaces:
We will have access to a space with natural light (the M-A-I café), an enclosed space (the M-A-I gallery) and an outdoor space (Lucia Kowaluk Park). Care will be taken to create a space dedicated to rest, with subdued light and a quiet sound environment.
General schedule (at M-A-I)
Friday, May 26th
11am-12pm welcome + materials drop
12pm-01pm collective meal offered
01pm-02pm opening
02pm-04pm sessions/workshops
04-04.30pm sharing and closing
Saturday May 27th
10am-11am opening
11am-12:30pm sessions/workshops
12.30-01.30pm collective meal offered
01:30-03:30pm sessions/workshops
03:30-04:30pm sharing and closing
Who is invited?
All people with past, present and future relations to material, digital and urban prostheses. Friends, allies, conspirators, extended family of prosthesis wearers. More than human, human, hackers, makers who have developed feminist, diversity and decolonial fibers. Those who have at heart to listen to the needs of the people concerned, who like to work with the means at hand or who find the necessary means to transform our dreams into collective realizations.
Accessibility:
Entrance: double doors with automatic knob.
Bathrooms: non-gendered, each with an accessible toilet stall (not automated).
Informal audio-description for blind person.
Whispered translation French-English
Translation in LSQ: confirmed
(if needed & requested), accompaniments from the metro will be possible.
+ Video and photos of the spaces and itinerary on request.
RSVP before Tuesday, May 23 indicating
– Your day(s) of attendance
– Food allergies and/or preferences.
– Accessibility needs
– Physical needs:
– Linguistic needs:
– Sensory needs:
– Other needs :
* This hackfest will be a collective continuation of what we are already exploring in residence at AdaX. The precise content of what we want to do will be elaborated on the spot, by the participants of this 1st Hackfest.
** If you have tools to provide for the occasion (sewing machine, 3D printer, panini press, recycled material, sound shells and other metaphysical instruments (…) please write to:
goldjian@riseup.net for the coordination.Looking forward meeting you there !
with much joy,
goldjian/Carlos Parra/Véro Leduc/Alvino Forbes/Marie Achille
This project is possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des Arts de Montréal