Sarah Renshaw

Background

Biography

Researcher, Special Individualized Program, Concordia University, Chercheure

As a doctorate student of the demanding and interdisciplinary Special Individualized Program at Concordia University, Renshaw will bring her focus on cognition, writing practices and memory to this workshop. Spanning communications, anthropology and art, she will also contribute an ambitious interdisciplinarity to the event. Her particular focus on the relations between writing practices and constructions of consciousness and memory overlaps with the interests of many other workshop participants and will enrich the overall discussion. Her proposed art installation, a conceptual and concrete poem in a local waterway promises to bodily move the workshop and its participants out of its institutional shelter and into direct contact with urban waters.

En tant qu’étudiante au doctorat inscrite au Special Individualized Program, un programme exigeant et interdisciplinaire de l’Université Concordia, Renshaw apportera à l’atelier sa réflexion sur la connaissance, les pratiques d’écriture et la mémoire. Chevauchant les communications, l’anthropologie et l’art, elle contribuera aussi une interdisciplinarité ambitieuse à l’événement. Elle s’oriente tout particulièrement autour des relations entre les pratiques d’écriture et les constructions de la conscience et de la mémoire, intérêts qui s’imbriquent bien avec ceux de nombreux participants à l’atelier et enrichira la discussion dans l’ensemble. Son installation d’art, un poème concret et conceptuel dans une voie navigable locale, promet de faire circuler l’atelier et ses participants hors du refuge de l’institution et vers les eaux urbaines.

Please see Stream of Consciousness (2010).

Veuillez voir le résumé: Stream of Consciousness (2010) (v.f.).

Publications

• Experimental Patterns (artwork featured in book) Rockport Publishers, England, UK, Spring 2010.
• Festival International Montreal en Arts, Emerging Artist Competition, July 2009.
• Designing the Sensorium, The Senses and Society, an International Refereed Journal, Berg Publishers, Spring 2009.
• GW Review. Published in George Washington University Literary Magazine, Fall 2007.
• Graduate Exhibit, Rhode Island School of Design, April-May 2007.
• Translations: Misguided Machines and Cultural Loops, DUO Theatre Gallery, 62, East 4th Street, New York, NY, Nov-Dec. 2006.