Session 24
Hilary Bergen
Online on April 30, 2020
The Sessions program is intended to be a series of live, punctual and open-ended events that invite someone to reflect upon image-based practices. Adapting Session 24 to the context of social distancing, Hilary Bergen returns to text — a more conventional mode of reflection, tackling subjects that are anything but conventional. Through the lens of posthumanism, Bergen explores fantasies of creation, possession and control in relation to the feminized body. Hilary Bergen’s Session offers a response to the work of Rachel Maclean (presented in continuous broadcast on April 23 from 7 pm to 10 pm as part of the dv_vd) and a meditation on the gesture of making.
Hilary Bergen is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University where she studies screendance, posthumanism and feminist media history. She has published work with Screening the Past, Culture Machine, Briarpatch Magazine, The Dance Current, Archée, Word and Text and PUBLIC (forthcoming). Hilary Bergen holds a BA in Dance from the University of Winnipeg and an MA in English Literature from Concordia. Her current research, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, explores dance as a critical intervention to technological fantasies of moving “beyond” the body. She is working on defining a posthuman theory of dance.
Online screening
Dazibao thanks the artist for her generous collaboration as well as its advisory programming committee for its support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that we are located on unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá: ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples.