Welcome to my site
On this site, I will present part of the process of my Ph.D. research. My study examines Socially Engaged Art (SEA) interventions through Art-Based Action Research (ABAR) as a strategy for building a sense of place and community. I will invite selected members of the community to imagine alternative futures. Using ABAR, I will implement three interventions in my new home: Griffintown, Montreal. Building from SEA, built environment pedagogies and a Futures Studies framework, my research will contribute to the knowledge of the Griffintown community and urban pedagogies.
Who am I?
I am an artist and researcher who deeply believe in the new ways of connecting, in the solidarity of the networks of knowledge, creativity and art that are showing a new face of our specie.
I see myself as part of not just a result of a country crisis but a global and timeless question of belonging, identities, and territories. I thought about my origins and identity, and living in Montreal, I also was confronted with migrants from all over the world, in many cases finding connections with them or learning other points of view and cultures.
I think migrancy and identity are an important part of my positionality. Without planning, all my world changed because of the migration, or in my case, exile. I found myself immersed as Aian Chambers, defines: “An impossible homecoming”: “The author also argued about the fiction of identity and how identity is formed on the move: “Such a journey is open and incomplete; it involves a continual fabulation, an invention, a construction, in which there is no fixed identity or final destination.” (p.25). As I find myself on this journey, my conceptual inquiry and making meaning of the place and the community is part of the global phenomenon of migration and displacement.
I hope to invite more people to learn and enjoy this “uncanny displacement and ambiguity", mending ourselves, building communities, repairing the world.
Elsy Zavarce
Urban Mapping and reclaiming the city.
SECOND INTERVENTION.
First session Saturday, May 13, May 14 venue: Fonderie Darling Place public.
DISRUPTION / DISRUPTION
OPEN ART/ Design Call _Deadline: 5, Nov. 2023_
THIRD INTERVENTION
SUMMER 2023