Sensing OtherWise
Sarah Drapeau
The experimentations we live collectively and individually can be documented. How do we do that and not break the moment lived, the fragile atmosphere of sharing ?
We can take traces from these moments in order to transmit the experiences to other people that were not there. This is a generous act of sharing lessons experienced with others so we can build on further.
Organization as a love gesture
And this is always the case, that things are presented from a perception of someone. So pulling this artistic card gives me a kind of poetic license to be more free in the format of my proposition and be reassured that the person will not take me too seriously, that she/he know that what I propose is my point of view. It’s like I give them back some power, in order to make the sharing more interesting for everyone.
It’s an expression that comes from the fact that miners would carry down canaries in the coal mine with them. As these birds are more sensitive to dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide collected in the mine, the gases would kill the canary before killing the miner. They were like a precious warning to something in the system that was toxic for them.
This expression emphasizes the systemic approach, and says that if someone is more sensitive to something due to their conditions and oppressions (feminism, validism, racism…) this would inform the whole system, group, that there is something problematic happening. Even if some people don’t feel the problem at the same moment, they will and are already impacted by this problem.
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©José Santos Fonseca - photography of Blossom collectiv
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©Syl Emme - on the beach with Blossom
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©Chloé Saffores - image on stage - during a residency of Jeu autoritaire with MYOB (Mind Your Own Business)
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©M.O.S.S.S. - background image in Sweden