Eli Cortés Carreón
Eli Cortés Carreón is an artist and researcher with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Jalisco School of Art, Mexico, where he specialized in drama and visual arts. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Communications at UQAM, and is a student member of the Centre de recherches Cultures – Arts – Sociétés (CELAT). He is interested in different types of narratives, bodies, identity and minority rights, as well as the use of these concepts in art and cultural issues. In this respect, his master’s thesis focuses on the narrative identity of deaf people in performance.
À nos prothèses is a collective project that questions relations of intimacy, conviviality, dispossession and (in)accessibility to our ‘ordinary’ prostheses. Prostheses are physical, digital, urban or sensory extensions that allow us to complete, extend and adjust our being to ourselves and our being together. Prostheses can be material (hearing aids, canes, glasses, dental prostheses, etc.), digital or urban (access ramps). This project is concerned with ordinary prostheses and claims solidary approaches in the sense of Donna Haraway (Cyborg Manifesto), Crip solidarities (Mia Mingus, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha), CRIP Art and feminist, queer, Crip and Cyborg interconnections (Alison Kafe, Mallory Kay Nelson, Ashley Shew, Bethany Stevens.).