Awards and grants
2023-25
Research Scholarship | Fonds de recherche du Québec, Society and Culture (FRQSC)
2023-24
Canada Graduate Scholarship | The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC-CRSH)
2023-24
Dave McGary Memorial Award | Concordia University
2022-23
Concordia Fine Arts Scholarship | Concordia University
2022
Desjardins Foundation Scholarship | Desjardins
2022
Bourse de création | Artch
2022
Pat and Bill Tierney Communication Studies Graduate Diploma Scholarship | Concordia University
Academic education
2022-25
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Studio Arts – Intermedia | Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Awards: Dave McGary Memorial Award, Concordia Fine Arts Scholarship, Desjardins Foundation Scholarship
2021-25
DESS Fine Arts and Creative Technologies | University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2021-22
Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies | Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Award: Pat and Bill Tierney Communication Studies Graduate Diploma Scholarship
2011-14
M. Sc., Business Engineering (MBE) | University of Namur, Belgium
Specialization: marketing intelligence and consumer behaviour
Thesis: Queer families’ imagery in marketing strategies – Advisors: Alain Decrop, Ph.D., Nathalie Grandjean, Ph.D.
Erasmus program | University of Tampere, Finland
Courses: Contemporary Perspective on Family and Kinship, Feminist Methodology, Gender and Media, Introduction to Finnish Gender Studies, Youth Transition to Adulthood, Introduction to Embodiment, Gender and Sexuality
2007-11
B. Sc., Business Engineering (BBE) | University of Namur, Belgium
Specialization: information management
Academic experience
Start 2023
Teaching assistant | Department of Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Course: Special Topics in Intermedia – Art, culture(s) & technology (intermediate-level studio class with a seminar component, with instructor Nelson Henricks)
2017
Lecturer | Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine for the University of Lorraine, Metz, France
Course: Art and cultural practice – contemporary visual arts
2014
Colloquium organizer | Les CHEFF at the University of Namur, Belgium
Colloquium : LGBTQI in research and cultural production
Artistic experience
Group exhibition
2022
Artch (5th edition) | Dorchester Square, Montreal, Canada. Producer: Artch – Art contemporain émergent
2019
Bootleg | Brooklyn, New-York, USA. Curator and producer: DOC!
2019
Subalternes | Galerie CEDEx, UQÀM, Montreal, Canada. Curator: Nigra Iuventa
2018
Symbols of Resistance | Galerie Mile-End, Montreal, Canada. Commissariat : Annick MF. Production : Annick MF, Meghan Gagliardi, C-Far (Critical Feminist Activism and Research) of Concordia University
Performances
2022
aksanti 33 (part 1) | Dorchester Square, Artch 5th edition, Montreal, Canada. Presented by Artch – Art contemporain émergent as part of the 5th edition of Artch
2022
Permanence | Dorchester Square, Artch, Montreal, Canada. Presented by Artch – Art contemporain émergent as part of the 5th edition of Artch
2022
Place Léopold-Sédar-Senghor | Pierre-Marquette Park, Montreal, Canada. Presented by La poésie partout as part of the presentation of end of the residency Dehors est un poème.
2022
Force and Form – Part I | Downtown, Montreal, Canada. Non-programmed infiltration
2020
AUTO-GOUVERNANCE / SELF-GOVERNANCE – Communication 1 | Online, articule, Montreal, Canada. Presented by articule, as a part of National AccessAbility Week, in collaboration with DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN Canada)
2019
Unnamed | Collaboration to the performance of Kamissa Ma Koïta. Ateliers Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada. As part of the international biennale VIVA! Art Action
2019
LITTLE RADICAL SECRETS : Consultation d’une afro-ratée – Tentative #2 | Casa del Popolo, Montreal, Canada. Programmer: Kama La Mackerel. Presented by Fierté Montréal Pride as part of the event Voix & résiliences of Festival Fierté Montréal
2018
Black Médecine : a consultation | With Claire Obscure. La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada. Non-programmed infiltration
2015
LITTLE RADICAL SECRETS : Consultation d’une afro-ratée – Tentative #1 | Bronx, Brussels, Belgium. Programmer: Warrior Poets. Presented by Les Identités du Baobab as part of Massimadi Bruxelles – Festival des films LGBT d’Afrique et de ses diasporas
Screenings and broadcasting
2022
Force and Form – Part II | Performance video, (12′ 39″, 2022).
- While Black at/in Montreal, Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto, Montreal, Canada. Curators: Dominique Fontaine, Cécilia Bracmort.
2022
The House of Kinshasa – Part 1 | Radio art, (30′, 2022)
- Radia and its members (25 independent radio stations from 15 countries in 4 time zones, including CKUT)
2019
This is a poem · Ceci est un poème | Experimental short film, (7’ 56’’, 2019). Direction and production in collaboration with Valérie Bah and Claire Obscure. Commissioned by CALACS de l’Ouest/West Island CALACS and funded by the Ministry of Justice of Quebec (Bureau d’aide aux victimes d’actes criminels)
- Subalternes, Galerie CEDEx, UQÀM, Montreal, Canada. Curator: Nigra Iuventa
- Quand la violence sexuelle discrimine! (awareness week), Café Velours, Montreal, Canada. Organizer: CALACS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île
Curating and programming
2017
Ressources humaines | 49 Nord 6 Est – Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, France
Cultural and artistic programming in dialogue with the exhibition Ressources humaines.
2016
EXTRACT | Skylten and g16 – Swedish National Gender Research Conference, Linköping, Sweden
DIY socio-artistic project with an international artistic (exhibition, projection, performances), cultural, and academic programming with the support of the Municipality and the University of Linköping.
2015
ITMTC Paris-Bruxelles | Pianofabriek, Brussels, Belgium
Brussels section of the Franco-Belgian project for and by racialized people with an artistic (exhibition, projections, performances), cultural, and public.
Artist residencies
2022
Dehors est un poème | Place Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, Montreal, Canada
Producer: La poésie partout
2018
Critical Creations | Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Residency of creation for Montreal, 1985 (photo series and zine) with Valérie Bah and Carl-Philippe Simonise. Producers: Annick MF, Meghan Gagliardi, C-Far (Critical Feminist Activism and Research), Concordia University
Artist conferences and presentations
2022
Déconstruire le capacitisme et l’audisme dans les milieux culturels | Conseil des arts de Montréal and Canada Research Chair on Cultural Citizenship of Deaf People and Cultural Equity Practices, Montreal, Canada
2020
Vulnérables Paradoxes | PME-ART, OFFTA – Festival d’arts vivants, Montréal, Canada. Award: ‘Coup de cœur’ of LA SERRE – arts vivants
2020
Une communauté noire actrice de transformation sociale : Arts et transformation sociale | École Nationale d’administration publique et Association étudiante de l’ÉNAP, Montreal, Canada
2019
Futurs Talk | Anna Tjé, Revue Atayé, Montreal & Paris, Canada & France
2019
Seminar Border Crossings 2019 « Performance » | University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2015
Art féministe, féminismes dans l’art | University of Lorraine & 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Art classes and workshops
2023
Fomenting change with public performative interventions: a practical approach to performance art as activist practice | Sustain’Alive, Sustainable Concordia, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Publications
Autopublication
2018
Montreal, 1985 | Zine: photo, text. Montreal
2014
LITTLE RADICAL SECRESTS : Consultation d’une afro-ratée | Zine: photo, text, craft. Linköping
Essays, poetry, interviews
2021
Po B. K. Lomami | In Vulnérables Paradoxes, PME-ART. Montreal
2019
Interview with Po B. K. Lomami | with Marie Bechetoille, dans La belle revue #9 : Avec ou sans engagements. Paris
2017
Ma sœur, je ne suis pas ton nègre | In AssiégéEs #2. Paris
2017
Processing the tree – Réflexions généalogiques | In Q-zine #13 : The Creative Writing Issue.
2015
Je suis un·e animal·e | In AssiégéEs #1. Paris
Articles
2017
Limit(less), un espace d’expression et de représentations de LGBTQ de la diaspora africaine initié par Mikael Owunna | In AssiégéEs #2. Paris
2015
Karbon Kabaret : L’esprit liégeois orchestré par Fabrice Murgia | In Webzine de MONS 2015, Mons 2015 – Capitale européenne de la culture. Mons
2015
Art brut : MONSens, une exposition brutalement bouleversante | In Webzine de MONS 2015, Mons 2015 – Capitale européenne de la culture. Mons
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