Chloe Wong-Mersereau
Chloe Wong-Mersereau (she/her) completed her master’s in social cultural anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is currently a research trainee with the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program and a research assistant on the Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine project. Her research interests include patient engagement in research; aging and temporality; diaspora studies; mental health and psychosocial challenges among marginalized peoples. Methodologically Wong-Mersereau engages with a layered approach to critical discourse analysis, multimodal sensory ethnography, and digital storytelling. Over the pandemic, she worked with the Canadian Red Cross in long term care homes, COVID-testing clinics, homeless shelters, and on the housing crisis project.
Curating Critical Futurities in Transplant Medicine is a pop-up art installation that showcases visual, sonic, and multimedia artistic works created to explore the complexities, unknowns, and lived experiences of solid organ transplantation. The pieces presented have been developed as part of the Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine Project, a multi-year, research-creation study that unabashedly sits at the convergence of crip technoscience, feminist science and technology studies, and arts-based research engaged with disability arts and artists. The impetus for the project comes, in part, from an understanding that artistic practices can generate “speculative frames through which to defamiliarize and reorganize the local” (Loveless 2019). By transporting art out of the gallery and into a national transplant conference, we invite a reconsideration of art: as intervention, as a way to generate, reveal, name, alter and engage with the multiplicity of experiences within transplantation. The pop-up installation persuades us to know differently, so as to materialize liveability and thriving in a transplantation lifeworld as political, creative acts.
Frictions of Futurity Project Arts-Mobilization Team
- Dr. Suze Berkhout
- Dr. Kelly Fritsch
- Ms. Eva-Marie Stern
- Chloe Wong-Mersereau
- Alexandra Frankel
Guest Curator
- Ms. Élise Desaulniers
Speakers: Suze Berkhout, Chloe Wong-Mersereau, Élise Desaulniers
Curating Critical Futurities in Transplant Medicine is a pop-up art installation that showcases visual, sonic, and multimedia artistic works created to explore the complexities, unknowns, and lived experiences of solid organ transplantation. The pieces presented have been developed as part of the Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine Project, a multi-year, research-creation study that unabashedly sits at the convergence of crip technoscience, feminist science and technology studies, and arts-based research engaged with disability arts and artists. The impetus for the project comes, in part, from an understanding that artistic practices can generate “speculative frames through which to defamiliarize and reorganize the local” (Loveless 2019). By transporting art out of the gallery and into a national transplant conference, we invite a reconsideration of art: as intervention, as a way to generate, reveal, name, alter and engage with the multiplicity of experiences within transplantation. The pop-up installation persuades us to know differently, so as to materialize liveability and thriving in a transplantation lifeworld as political, creative acts.
Frictions of Futurity Project Arts-Mobilization Team
- Dr. Suze Berkhout
- Dr. Kelly Fritsch
- Ms. Eva-Marie Stern
- Chloe Wong-Mersereau
- Alexandra Frankel
Guest Curator
- Ms. Élise Desaulniers
Speakers: Suze Berkhout, Chloe Wong-Mersereau, Élise Desaulniers
Curating Critical Futurities in Transplant Medicine is a pop-up art installation that showcases visual, sonic, and multimedia artistic works created to explore the complexities, unknowns, and lived experiences of solid organ transplantation. The pieces presented have been developed as part of the Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine Project, a multi-year, research-creation study that unabashedly sits at the convergence of crip technoscience, feminist science and technology studies, and arts-based research engaged with disability arts and artists. The impetus for the project comes, in part, from an understanding that artistic practices can generate “speculative frames through which to defamiliarize and reorganize the local” (Loveless 2019). By transporting art out of the gallery and into a national transplant conference, we invite a reconsideration of art: as intervention, as a way to generate, reveal, name, alter and engage with the multiplicity of experiences within transplantation. The pop-up installation persuades us to know differently, so as to materialize liveability and thriving in a transplantation lifeworld as political, creative acts.
Frictions of Futurity Project Arts-Mobilization Team
- Dr. Suze Berkhout
- Dr. Kelly Fritsch
- Ms. Eva-Marie Stern
- Chloe Wong-Mersereau
- Alexandra Frankel
Guest Curator
- Ms. Élise Desaulniers
Speakers: Suze Berkhout, Chloe Wong-Mersereau, Élise Desaulniers
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