The Body As An Archive

with Emma Bortolon-Vettor

Friday, April 24, 2-4 pm

ImprovLab (MCKN 108)
University of Guelph

In this creative, interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore the meaning of the “body as archive,” as in a landscape of scars, marks, and aesthetic choices but also of unintentional acts of cataloguing—a collecting and carrying of cultural memory, stories, experiences, trauma, and embodiment.

We’ll have more details coming soon. Please make sure to check back!

Who: We invite everyone who is interested in participating to join the creative workshops. We aim to make these events as accessible as possible, and they are open to everyone regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, religion, language, sexual orientation, gender identity, political beliefs, or status. Folks with children are also welcome to bring them along and their participation will not be part of the study.

To confirm participation and/or for more information, including about consent forms, please email sharon.engbrecht@uoguelph.ca.

If you decide to join us spontaneously, please do. Doors will be open 30 minutes before each event. There will be coffee, tea, and light snacks provided.

Bios

Mx. Emma Bortolon-Vettor (they/them), is a PhD Student in the Critical Studies in Improvisation program at the University of Guelph. They are a musician and the production coordinator for the ImprovLab. Outside of the university, Emma is a guitarist and multidisciplinary researcher whose work involves live sound technology and improvisation; they are exploring the process of mixing as a research methodology to sonify invisible labour—​asking the question: is invisible labour improvised? ​

Dr. Sharon Engbrecht (they/them) comes from a background in theatre and visual arts, narrative theory, and critical studies in gender and sexuality. They have a knack for event planning and facilitating group events focused on storytelling and improvisation. Their research investigates questions of embodiment, identity, and relationality.

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