Join us for Re{verbe}, a pop-up, one-day exhibition presenting the creative work of deaf and hearing artists exploring their sensory experiences of communication, generated through a research creation project lead by Paula Bath, Public Scholar and Ph.D. Candidate at Concordia University, in collaboration with SPiLL Propagation and the Centre for Sensory Studies Concordia University.

Re{verbe} is the reverberation of experience, a story occurring between people.

About the organizers:

- Paula Bath, Speaker, Ph.D. Candidate and Public Scholar
After learning American Sign Language at the age of 16, Paula went on to study sign language translation, cross-cultural communications and policy making. Paula obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in communications and is currently completing a PhD in social and cultural analysis at Concordia, with a research focus on the experience of communicating, sensory ethnography and research-creation. Paula’s work is observational, conversational and brings images, texts and the senses together to explore moments when dominant social ideas, beliefs and social structures are lived, felt and discussed by people. Paula lives and works in the intermingling spaces of sign and spoken languages, ASL, LSQ, English and French.

-Elizabeth Sweeney, Curator
Visual artist, arts researcher and curator. She is also a neurodivergent queer of Acadian settler decent, who grew up in rural Nova Scotia. She has a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University (2001), a B.Ed from the University Of Ottawa (2005) and an MA in Critical Disability Studies from York University (2012), where she focused on disability art and contemporary curatorial practice. She has worked at The National Gallery of Canada, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and currently works at The Canada Council for the Arts. Elizabeth frequently presents and guest lectures on the topic of art criticism, activist museum praxis and contemporary disability arts. She is a founding member of the Black Triangle Arts Collective and in 2019, Elizabeth was awarded a two-year Chalmers Art Fellowship for her project Premise/Shift.

Participants: Emmanuelle, Matthew, Jordan, Jodi, Anselmo, Jessica M, Wissam, Viktoriya, MAP, Connor, Jennifer, Jessica D, Nigel, Josée, and Tiphaine.