2017. Sensing a Constellation is a sensitive interface to navigate a collection of traces of healing, decolonial, feminist hacking practices. This exhibit in collaboration with Goldjian (Anne Goldenberg) explores constellations as a way of healing.

A constellation is an ensemble of stars: from a situated knowledge perspective, our civilizations draw links between them by creating meaningful shapes. To constellate is a practice that allows us to make sense, to align ourselves (Estela López Solís) and eventually to add stars in a sky already deprived of light (Walidah Imarisha citing Martin Luther King).

She is made of encounters, holds breaths, and shares inspirations. Touch, movement, moments of peace, texts, sounds, memories, dances, records, drawings, and connexions act as infinite modes of honoring, hacking, creating and healing. This is the first iteration into an ongoing process in terms of thinking about relational, citational, honoring, and gathering practices.

The installation took place as part of the exhibit Dancing Agents: Remapping Gender and Remixing Traces in Digital Culture from March 23, 2017 – March 28, 2017 at CaPSL, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Presented work includes (permissions, relations and care in process…):

• Notes toward feminist technologies, Lucia Egaña Rojas, translated by Pedro Solers: http://word.root.ps/?p=469 – licensed under CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
• Feminist principles of the Internet, APC Network – licensed under CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
• A Feminist Server, Femke Snelting, Constantz, collective: – permission granted
• Think we must – Orchestré par Julie Chateauvert, avec la collaboration des performeuses : Marie-Pierre Boucher, Martine Delvaux, Hermine Ortega, Emmanuelle Sirois, Sophie Toupin en galerie et Annie Abrahams et Marie-Hélène Bacque à distance et de Sofian Benaissa, artiste du code
  • image : https://www.flickr.com/photos/goldjian/sets/72157629810496199/             – permission granted
• Old Wise Corn, Peter Cook et Kenny Lerner: we are asking permission
• Honoring as healing: compilation of poems by adrienne maree brown: we are asking permission
• Across the Detroit River text by Matthew Lee, 1998:  video by Margaret Westby, 2008 – we are asking permission –
• A tender hex for the anthropocene, VNS Matrix http://www.runway.org.au/32/tenderhex/hextext/verse2.html – we are asking permission – in process
• Champs opératoires,  A video performance by Héloïse Prax & Goldjian produced in august 2014 Bodies, places and prothesis are the operatory fields of the possibles. The frontiers harness each others, in rituals of insertions, sowing, soldering and deliverance. In the margin of the ubisoftian gentrification, ghosts wonder in the windows. – cc by sa : permission granted
•  Audification of Sisters Server , Valentina Vuksik, permission granted
• Poems for a constellation Fran Slingerland permission granted breath by Fran Slingerland and Khiron work made on purpose / permission granted
• Be Peace, Video Dance by Margaret Westby February 2017
• FemFragFlag: Processing Sketch and Video Design and Film Editing by Margaret Westby
• Orbital Resonance Poster and Documentation: Nina Bouchard, Nikolaos Chandolias, and Margaret Westby