Sounds that Move Us, Sounds that Elude Us

At MAI art gallery Montreal, 2018  At Articule artist run centre,2017-2018: At Lethbridge University, Lethbridge  At MAWA artist run centre, Winnipeg 

Hi all, just a reminder that if you are wanting to do the independent study you have to go through your department with the outline Joshua wrote and get permission. You can cc me on the email if you like. The actual course numbers will be different depending on your departments. Hope you had a great holiday! See you soon. Erin

Hello All, I'm wondering who has chosen to participate in the Independent Study class? How will we make our schedule? Maybe we can communicate on here? ​  

Non-fiction: 5th Column 12.01.17 Black and Blur Maggie Nelson An ecstatic occasion: a response to  the first book  in a new trilogy by Fred Moten. Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being) , by Fred Moten, Duke University Press,  339  pages,  $27.95 •   •   • I’m going to try to write something really plain about poet/critic/theorist Fred Moten’s new collection of essays,  Black and Blur , which feels hard, because  Black and Blur , like all of Moten’s work, isn’t written plainly, and I’ve always felt a little foolish coming at Moten’s writing in the (idiot) idiom of lucidity—a kind of pretended straight arrow at a field defined by incessant motion, escape. Even if I admit that such an approach is a fool’s errand wholly inadequate to what makes Moten’s work so worthwhile and sustaining (albeit an approach socialized by my own maternal; my mother teaches business writing), it still feels, well, foolish. But as Fred once said to me in his irreducibly gener

I wrote my first post on neurodiversity and neurotypicality. In the first class, it was the first time I had ever heard of these concepts. It fascinated me though. And it made me view things, people, places in my surroundings in a pretty different light. This class for example.  At some point, I have felt somewhat overwhelmed with this class, because I know I am someone who functions well in the 'normal' setting of education, let's say. I function well when I have rules and instructions, which kind of help me with any insecurities I might have had with performing. I have been a student first for sixteen years, and I had not particularly registered that I could learn differently, and this class has helped me start a process to learn how to learn in another way when necessary. This was necessary.

Dear Erin Manning, As you may be aware, the majority of courses offered at Concordia are being evaluated online. The online evaluations for the courses noted below will start and end on the following dates: FMST 448/2 A 2017 ADV. SEMINAR IN ART & FILM  ( from 14-November-2017 to 04-December-2017 )   We would like to ask you to remind and encourage your students, during lecture time and at your earliest convenience, to complete this online questionnaire, which is accessible through MyConcordia portal. You will also be able to see the percentage of students who have completed the questionnaire for each course that you teach on MyConcordia Portal.  We would like to stress that the online questionnaire is exactly the same as the questionnaire previously distributed in class and that only the method of delivery changed. We thank you sincerely for your collaboration. Regards, Centre for Teaching and Learning Concordia University

Hey folks, I'm going to do a draft of the syllabus we're going to hand in this weekend, if you want to have a look at it once it's done just reach out (email = joshuahwiebe@gmail.com or on fb= Joshua Harold Wiebe), incidentally I'd be happy to be in regular contact w/ any of y'all more generally. Kelann and I talked briefly about the structure of the actual study and we were thinking we'd do 3 books in the same way we've been reading, starting with Undercommons and maybe doing Black and Blur (Moten's new book that comes out in a week) and then something else that people were excited about, maybe Simone Browne's Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness?  Just ideas, suggestions welcome of course. Beyond that, we thought it'd be cool if every week a different person was responsible for guiding people through the reading, so we could avoid the traditional hierarchy thing-- though there'd be no constraints on what that would look like: