{"id":4524,"date":"2026-06-01T03:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/soft-materials-2-4\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:38:47","slug":"soft-materials-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/soft-materials-2-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mati\u00e8res Douces (2\/4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4524\" class=\"elementor elementor-4524 elementor-4514\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f6375c9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3f6375c9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a7c463d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4a7c463d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34772fb6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34772fb6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Concept by <\/b><br\/><span style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve;\">Dyana Ouvrard<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36a57393 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36a57393\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 800;\">Interviews and Editing<\/span><\/strong><br\/><span style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve;\">Sawsan Borges Da Moura<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3bdf2b8f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3bdf2b8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Publication Year<\/strong><br\/><span style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve;\">2026<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68ce04ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68ce04ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 800;\">Production<\/span><\/strong><br\/><span style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve;\">Sawsan Borges Da Moura<br\/>Dyana Ouvrard<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-433a7e5e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"433a7e5e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Recordings<\/strong><br\/><span style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve;\">February 2026<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b252720 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b252720\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 800;\">Illustration<br\/><\/span><span style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve;\">Dyana Ouvrard<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-609b947f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"609b947f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 800;\">Voices<\/span><br\/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Murielle Jassinthe, Sawsan Borges Da Moura, Dyana Ouvrard, the elders of the Heritage Reception Centres in Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-691c8d59 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"691c8d59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 800;\">Productions<\/span><\/strong><br\/><span style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve;\">Le Labo<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1529d03 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1529d03\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 800;\">Supported and Funded<\/span><br\/>By the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-788ac131 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"788ac131\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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For this second iteration of our vigil outside our walls and in the context of Black History Month (February), we invited <a href=\"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/artist\/murielle-jassinthe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murielle Jassinthe<\/a>, a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and photographer born in Quebec and based in Nunavut, to speak to us about books that have inspired her<\/span>. <\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Murielle selected 6 works. The discussion with the elders at the Heritage reception centers focused on three of them: <em>Les f\u00e9es ont soif<\/em> by Denis Boucher published in 1978, <em>Humus<\/em> by Fabienne Kanor published in 2006, and <em>Cahier d&#8217;un retour au natal<\/em> by Aim\u00e9e C\u00e9saire, published in 1939.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br\/><\/span>.<br\/>.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Mati\u00e8res douces<\/strong><\/em> is a podcast initiated by Le Labo, The Toronto Art Laboratory, which explores the links between artistic creation, deceleration, and eco-responsibility.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through several pre-recorded episodes broadcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/choqfm.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CHOQ FM<\/a> radio, the series gives a voice to artists and curators who question our way of inhabiting the world: reading, walking, exhibiting, and collaborating differently.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recorded between the Quartier Libre micro-library at Studio 277 (401 Richmond in Toronto) and Toronto&#8217;s public spaces, Gentle Matters weaves conversations around:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deceleration and anti-capitalist imaginaries<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">decoloniality through writing <\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">walking as an artistic and ecological practice,<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">distance as a space for creation <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4434462 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4434462\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5a34b7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e5a34b7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a47ef2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5a47ef2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is in the rift that I create through the means of the senses and their transgression\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/25-26_AGENDA_SOCIAL-MEDIA-POST-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}