Spring 2025
“As part of my research project at Artexte, I hope to contribute to the advancement of knowledge on audio description and textual description in art, based on an intersectional approach. Beyond reading, I will use conversation and writing to test my chat methodology to create textual and audio descriptions. As a research-practitioner, I subscribe to the notion of going back to the things-themselves and research through multiplicity as a tool—not to aim for precision of thought, but as a way to reach what seems essential in our relationship to ourselves and to others. I believe that questioning access to art means questioning what’s “essential.” This research project seeks to revisit the very concept of “description” by carefully examining how equity-seeking artists describe their own works. In particular, I will focus on self-published books, micro-stories in visual self-narratives, manifestations of circular thinking, and strategies of repair established in descriptions by crip artists and activists.”
— Marie Samuel Levasseur
Marie Samuel Levasseur has a multidisciplinary practice that blends art and life. She has developed a collaborative, creative process through chatting, and uses micro-narratives to express the indescribable, but also plural identities in narratives that relate to the experiences of remarkable lives. Levasseur holds a Master of Visual and Media Arts from UQAM, and graduate diplomas in Indigenous Studies and Education. She is currently pursuing studies in sexual and interpersonal violence. As a caregiver, she is also developing a co-creative and curatorial practice at the intersection of art, truth, and justice, namely as part of the duo Place Courage.