First research project of the research group: Arts and Black Feminist Cultural Practices

Arts and Black Feminist Cultural Practices

Research Group in Formation – UQAM

Arts and Black Feminist Cultural Practices is an informal and multidisciplinary research group currently in the process of structuration, dedicated to Black feminist artistic, theoretical, and cultural practices, approached through a transversal, situated, African and transatlantic perspective.

The group brings together researchers, artists, and professors from various disciplinary fields—including visual arts, literature, art history, humanities, and Black studies—with the ambition of creating, within UQAM, a space for critical reflection, exchange, and experimentation grounded in Black feminist and decolonial epistemologies.

The trajectories and experiences of Chloé Savoie-Bernard (Professor of Literature), Carla Francisco (Professor of Art History), Michèle Magema (Professor at EAVM, feminist approaches and gender issues), Djamen Nganso Minette Carole (Doctoral Candidate), and Alexandra Pierre Sally (Professor of Decolonial Social Work) constitute the core of this inaugural collective reflection.

For its first public iteration, the group proposes a series of four events organized as part of Black History Month. These encounters unfold over four consecutive weeks, with one event per week, on Mondays from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Each event is conceived and led by one member of the group and takes place within the department to which that member is affiliated, encouraging transversal circulation of knowledge, practices, and audiences. The overall program is conceived as an evolving sequence combining conversation, study, experimentation, and embodied forms of restitution.