Artists : Murielle Jassinthe and Oana Avasilichioaei
Partner : Les Productions Rhizome
Residency : From April, 22 to May, 6 2024
Causerie : May, 2 2024 at 6 pm
Le Labo – 401 Richmond – Queen St W – Studio 277
Le Labo opens a space for collaboration and research-creation to two multidisciplinary artists, as part of a cross-residency in partnership with Les Productions Rhizome.
Murielle Jassinthe, a member of Le Labo, living in Iqaluit (Nunavut), is beginning a period of research focused on poetry and media arts. Then joining Le Labo, Montreal artist Oana Avasilichioaei will work on sound. An interdisciplinary encounter between poetry and sound arts is emerging.
Join us for an artistic talk with the two artists on May 2 at 6 p.m. at the Labo, which will undoubtedly create new synergies and perspectives. You are also invited to follow the creative process of the two residents on social media @lelaboart, witnessing the emergence of new ideas and collaborations.
This initiative promises an immersive and stimulating exploration of contemporary creativity.
Of Haitian origin, Murielle Jassinthe grew up in Québec City, Québec, before settling in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in 2014. A member of the Canada Research Chair in African and Francophone Literatures (Université Laval), she is pursuing a bachelor’s and master’s degree in literary studies.
In October 2010, her poems were published by Bruno Doucey as part of the anthology Terre de femmes, 150 ans de poésie féminine en Haïti. Winner of the Première Ovation scholarship, from the Canadian Institute of Quebec, in 2011, her love of words led her to embrace poetry, short stories, stories and essays as well as dramatic and screenwriting. She co-authored the essay « Nouvelle dramaturgie haïtienne et les mots du chaos », in 2014, in the scientific journal Interlignes – Haïti : la révolte en mots et en couleurs, from the Catholic Institute of Toulouse. She also published the literary short story « Nukaliak – le carnet », n 2016, in magazine Possibles. Interdisciplinary artist (writing, photography, performing arts, media arts), she combines creativity and social awareness.
Oana Avasilichioaei
Oana Avasilichioaei’s artistic practice interweaves different fields, including poetry, translation, photography, moving image, sound and performance. She often explores different ways of translating these languages together, bringing elements from one field to another to question the very meaning, conventions, structures and genres of these fields. Some ideas she interacts with include language as trace and resistance, polyglot and polyphonic poetics, phonotopes (intermediate spaces between words, sounds and images), and transformation.
She regularly presents her work and gives conferences on poetics and translation in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe. She was the founder and curator of the Atwater Poetry Project reading series in Montreal from 2004 to 2009. She was writer in residence at Green College, UBC, Vancouver, in 2009, Canadian writer in residence at the University of Calgary from 2010 to 2011, Audain visual artist in residence at Simon Fraser University in 2018, and member of Rhizome from 2023 to 2024 in collaboration with Kaie Kellough.
For seventeen years, she also worked as a literary and commercial translator from French to English, and she has provided manuscript consultation services for several years.
