The nebulosity of our blacknesses

This seminar series brings together artists, scholars, researchers and organizers from South Africa, Mexico, U.S., Iran, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Botswana, Peru and Sweden, to share the interdisciplinary, aesthetic and transcultural nature of Black Study. 

Angelique Wilkie 

I am interested in the indefinability of blackness and yet it’s very lived experience. In my current research project, I engage with 7 women artists from Brazil, Canada, the UK/Nigeria, The Netherlands/Suriname, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand in artistic conversations and encounters anchored in their experiences of and with blackness. This talk is a glimpse of where I’ll be at with the adventures.

Performer, dramaturg and mentor, Angélique pursued a 25-year career in Europe in dance, circus and music. She is active in Montreal’s professional dance community and is the 2022 recipient of the Prix de la danse de Montréal, catégorie Interprète. Associate Professor of Contemporary Dance at Concordia University, her research interests focus on interdisciplinary creation and decolonial dramaturgies. She holds a Concordia University Research Chair in Ecologies of B/black Performance, chaired the President’s Task Force on Anti-Black Racism and is Special Advisor to the Provost on Black Integration and Knowledges. She also participates actively in conversations on equity, diversity and inclusion on the Boards of Festival TransAmériques, La Chapelle scènes contemporaines and Espace Perreault transmissions chorégraphiques. Angélique is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.