Sensory Collections and Display Conference
J.A. de Seve Cinema, Ground Floor, Library Building,
Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal

Friday 11 February & Saturday 12 February, 2005

FEBRUARY 11

Friday morning, 9:00-11:15
• Living Archives at the First Nations Garden, Monika Kin Gagnon
• Bodies and Decors: The Role of Relics in the Amerindian Chapels of
Seventeenth-Century New France, Muriel Clair
• Tsitewathahón:nis ‘where we make our path’: Experiencing Kahnawake,
Kahente Horn-Miller
Discussant: David Howes

Friday noon hour, 11:30-12:45 (Video Screening)
- ANOINTING THE WORLD (20 min), Elysee Nouvet
- SELLING TRAGEDY: THE COMMODIFICATION OF GROUND ZERO (21 min), Jean-Sébastien Marcoux and Renaud Legoux
- LINDA M. MONTANO: 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART (22 min), Jennifer Fisher/DisplayCult

Friday afternoon, 13:00-15:15
• The Museum of the Senses, Constance Classen
• The Geography of Exhibition, Trevor Gould
• Hyperaesthesia: Capitalism Comes to Your Senses, David Howes
Discussant: Stephen Inglis

Friday late afternoon, 16:00-18:15
• Airchitecture, Jim Drobnick
• The Aesthetics of the Sixth Sense, Jennifer Fisher
• The MP3 as Cultural Artifact, Jonathan Sterne
Discussants: Joy Malnar and Frank Vodvarka

FEBRUARY 12

Saturday morning, 9:00-11:15
• The Studio-Museum, or the Paradox of the Total Experience of the Artwork,
Laurier Lacroix
• The Exhibition as a Space of Sensory and Identity Interplay: A Study of
Double Play: Identity and Culture, presented at the Musée national des
beaux-arts du Québec (2004), Jocelyne Lupien
• Negotiating Influence – Touch and Tango, Erin Manning
Discussant: Johanne Sloan

Saturday noon hour, 11:30-12:45 (Video Screening)
- LINDA M. MONTANO: 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART (22 min), Jennifer Fisher/DisplayCult
- SELLING TRAGEDY: THE COMMODIFICATION OF GROUND ZERO
(21 min), Jean-Sébastien Marcoux and Renaud Legoux;
- ANOINTING THE WORLD (20 min), Elysee Nouvet

Saturday afternoon, 13:00-15:15
• Statues of Comrades and Beet Soup: Sensing Memories of Socialism at Grutas
Park, Lithuania, Gediminas Lankauskas
• Sensing Culture, Tracing History: Township Tours in Post-apartheid South
Africa, Shelley Butler
• On Sorting, Sifting and Sensing: Recuperating the WTC and Constructing
Memory, Jean-Sébastien Marcoux
Discussant: Jenny Burman

Saturday late afternoon, 16:00-17:30
Roundtable Discussion