Émilie Peltier
After living in several countries, Emilie Peltier settled in New Brunswick in 2012. With a degree in language and communication sciences, she works in the associative and cultural sectors, while living by her usual leitmotiv: observing the life around her and exploring the senses and the arts. Photography, cinema, writing, printing techniques, Emilie is self-taught alongside her professional activities. As her deafness influences her relationship with the world, she is drawn to visual and aesthetic projects, often guided by a militant instinct, that explore perceptions, the strange and the links we maintain with each other. She has taken part in the Media Arts section of the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA) on several occasions, where she tried her hand at both Super 8 and digital. In 2019, she is co-directing the short fiction film 54 North, inspired by the growing number of women in vulnerable situations on the streets of Moncton. In the summer of 2020, based on texts by Mo Bolduc, she will direct Matin Ecchymose, an experimental film combining poetry and queerness, in French, Quebec sign language and lip-reading. In 2021, she will continue this adventure by co-directing a medium-length documentary, a road trip to discover the diversity of deaf people. Since moving to Montreal, Emilie has been taking a course on disability at UQAM, getting involved in various organizations while continuing her exploration of identity and art.
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.).