Session 23
Maude Veilleux
On February 20, 2020 at 7 pm
The Session starts at precisely 7 pm. A cash bar service is available from 6 pm and you can even bring your drink in the screening room! Arrive early, seats are limited! Spectators will be let in on a first come first served basis.
“[Poetry] always contains within it the possibility of saying “I” with an intensity that is barely even imaginable and in this way it concerns, perhaps more directly than all the other genres, this strange thing called the “subject”, this thing that expresses itself in its name, that says “me, here, now” and that is neither a narrator, nor a character, nor even the author, but an apparatus of expression which exceeds literature and concerns us intimately each time one speaks in one’s own name.”
What becomes of the lyrical subject in a context of self-staging and constant digital surveillance? For this 23rd edition of the Session series, Maude Veilleux proposes a video-augmented reading of her latest collection of poems, Une sorte de lumière spéciale. Plunging into the depths of her multiple digital identities and traces, the author explores what resists representation and the possible mutations of the lyrical subject when confronted — or brought forth, depending — by new modes of communication.
Maude Veilleux was born in Beauce in 1987. She has published three collections of poems, Les choses de l’amour à marde, Last call les murènes and Une sorte de lumière spéciale, as well as two novels, Le vertige des insectes and Prague. In 2018, she published a web novel, titled frankie et alex – black lake – super now. She has presented performances at several venues and festivals including Le Lieu, the Darling Foundry, the OFFTA and the RIAP. Her research currently focuses on solitude, communication and creating a sense of community.
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.