Élise Desaulniers
Élise Desaulniers currently serves as the Executive Director of the Fondation Dépendances Montréal, where she leads efforts to support individuals undergoing addiction rehabilitation within Montreal's public health network. From 2017 to 2022, she held the position of Executive Director at the Montreal SPCA, one of Canada's largest and most influential animal protection organizations. Beyond her executive roles, Élise is recognized as an independent researcher and accomplished author. Her thought-provoking essays and articles explore subjects such as food ethics, feminism, and animal rights, emphasizing the intersection of social justice in her work. Her writings have received numerous prizes and have been translated into several languages. Élise anonymously donated her kidney in 2022 and has been involved in promoting living organ donation ever since.
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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