Guests :

• Caroline Quach-Thanh, paediatric microbiologist-infectiologist and epidemiologist, Montreal
• Jean Claude Ameisen, physician, immunologist and biology researcher, Paris
• Marie-Charlotte Franco, museologist, lecturer and postdoctoral researcher, Montreal
• Pierre Baumann, artist, teacher and researcher, Bordeaux
• Maryse Goudreau, artist and researcher, Escuminac

Moderator: Marie-Andrée Lamontagne, writer, editor and journalist, Montreal

Curator of the event : Louise Déry, Director of the Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal

2022 edition: theme and programme

In response to the global theme, the curator and director of the Galerie de l'UQAM, Louise Déry, has invited personalities from the scientific and artistic worlds to open up their thinking, reposition their research and reinvent their practice at the crossroads of several disciplines in order to think and communicate the world differently.

Hosted by writer, editor and journalist Marie-Andrée Lamontagne, the event is organised around two discussions. The first conversation will bring together pediatric microbiologist-infectiologist and epidemiologist Caroline Quach-Thanh (Montreal) and physician, immunologist and biology researcher Jean Claude Ameisen (Paris). The event will continue with an exchange between artists Maryse Goudreau (Escuminac) and Pierre Baumann (Bordeaux) and museologist Marie-Charlotte Franco (Montreal).

About the guests

Jean Claude Ameisen is Honorary President of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE). A doctor and researcher, he was a professor of immunology at the University of Paris-Diderot and his research mainly concerned the origin of cellular self-destruction phenomena during the evolution of living organisms and their role in the development of diseases. Involved in ethical reflection, he has been president of the CCNE, of the Ethics Committee of the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) and of the Ethical and Scientific Committee of the International Foundation for Applied Research on Disability. Involved in the development of relations between science, culture and society, he is the author of La sculpture du vivant. Le suicide cellulaire ou la mort créatrice (1999); Dans la lumière et les ombres. Darwin et le bouleversement du monde (2008); Les chants mêlés de la Terre et de l'Humanité (2015); and the radio programme Sur les Épaules de Darwin (France Inter).

Caroline Quach-Thanh is a pediatrician, microbiologist-infectiologist, epidemiologist and full professor in the Departments of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases & Immunology and Pediatrics at the Université de Montréal. She is an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University and a scientific collaborator at the School of Public Health of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She is the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Officer at the Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine where she is also a microbiologist-infectiologist. Dr Quach-Thanh was the Chair of the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunizatioń (2017-2021). Selected as one of Canada's most influential women in 2019 in the Science and Technology category, she was awarded the Ordre du mérite de l'Université de Montréal in May 2021. Her research interests are in infection prevention, both nosocomial and vaccine-preventable.

Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre interuniversitaire d'études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA), Marie-Charlotte Franco teaches museology at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). Her thesis on the processes of decolonization and indigenization in the McCord Museum's exhibitions earned her the Canadian Studies Network's Best Dissertation Award (2021). Her work has been published in the journals Muséologies, Vie des Arts and Inter Art actuel as well as in the books Musées, Mutations... (2019) and Urbanité autochtone (forthcoming 2022). Her research has been the subject of several conferences in Canada and internationally (ACFAS, ICOFOM, École normale supérieure, Musée du quai Branly, etc.). She also co-edits the scientific journal Les Cahiers du CIÉRA.

Pierre Baumann is a University Professor of Arts, member of the ARTES Research Unit at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, and head of the Master's degree in Fine Arts. In 2015, he created Le laboratoire des objets libres, which studies the migratory character of artistic and research objects in a wider anthropological context. Since 2017, he has directed the Moby-Dick research-experimental programme, which, nourished by multiple collaborations, focuses on the study of creative ecosystems, based on a rereading and updating of Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick and the sperm whale. He has published several books guided by a mesological approach to art: L'usure (2016); De Cibecue à Lemniscate (2017); Dire Moby-Dick par la recherche en arts (2018); Réalités de la recherche (collective) en arts (2019) and Sillage Melville, recherche en arts et monde mobile (2020). The final volume of the Moby-Dick project will be published in 2022.
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Maryse Goudreau is an artist who lives and works in Escuminac, Gaspé, where she practices permaculture. She creates works where images, documents, artistic and participative care gestures intersect. Her work is a hybrid of photography, video essays, immersive devices, action art, sound art and dramatic writing. Her commitment to nature is evident in her thematic work/archive on the beluga whale, which she has been creating for the past 10 years. In recent years, she has exhibited at MOMENTA Biennale de l'image ("When Nature Feels", Montreal, 2021), at the Venice Biennale (Montreal PHI Centre Pavilion, 2019). Maryse Goudreau won the Lynne Cohen Prize (2017), awarded in partnership with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Her work is included in several collections, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
marysegoudreau.com

Marie-Andrée Lamontagne (animation) is a writer, editor, journalist and translator. She is also a member of the editorial board of Argument magazine, writes the foreign literature column for L'Inconvénient magazine, and hosts the literary program Parking nomade on Radio VM. Her most recent publication is Anne Hébert, Vivre pour écrire (Boréal, 2019), a biography of the poet and novelist Anne Hébert that is the result of fifteen years of research. Previously published: L'homme au traîneau (novel, Leméac Éditeur, 2012) and Montréal, la créative (document, éditions Autrement/Héliotrope, 2011).

Louise Déry (curator) holds a doctorate in art history and has directed the Galerie de l'UQAM since 1997. She has been curator at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She has worked with many artists such as Françoise Sullivan, Dominique Blain, Monique Régimbald-Zeiber, Michael Snow, Nancy Spero, David Altmejd, Shary Boyle, Aïda Kazarian, Sarkis, etc., focusing on the relationship between body and language, the question of artistic engagement and the international dissemination of Quebec art. She has published some fifty books and catalogues, including the first monograph on the artist David Altmejd. She also curated his exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Winner of the Hnatyshyn Award for curatorial excellence (2007) and the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2015), she was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France (2017) and Compagne des arts et des lettres by Quebec (2021).

La nuit des idées is an initiative of the Institut français. It is produced by the Consulate General of France in Quebec City in collaboration with the Galerie de l'UQAM, Le Lobe, the Centre de production en art actuel Touttout, the Théâtre des Petites Lanternes, Vaste et Vague, the Maison de la littérature, the Maison natale de Louis Fréchette and the Galerie R3 of the UQTR

The Gallery thanks the Consulate General of France in Quebec City, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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