À nos prothèses (To our prosthetics) – À nos prothèses collective
From May 10th until September 7th 2025
At the Maison Antoine-Beaudry, 14678 rue Notre-Dame Est, Montréal (Québec) H1A 1W1
Open hours
Important dates:
Vernissage : Sunday, May 11th from 2 to 5pm
Finissage : Saturday, September 6th from 2 to 5 pm
À nos prothèses (To our prosthetics) questions the relationships of intimacy, conviviality, dispossession and (in)accessibility to our “ordinary” prostheses through an exhibition at the Maison Antoine Beaudry and a series of workshops with members of the ALPHA organization and the Maison de la culture de Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles. This project is the result of the collaborative work of 15 artists of capacity diversity with Ada X, where the À nos prothèses collective carried out a residency in 2023.
Come discover these diverse installations!
– The Crip Versation:
An immersive inter-ability virtual reality installation in the Allo Ada environment, developed in collaboration with AdaX.
– The Living Archives:
A presentation of photos, videos, and mixed media created by Deaf artists using participatory audio description solutions.
– The Dream Bearer:
A participatory installation suspending watercolors, dreams about prostheses, and prophetic manifestations with Braille prints.
– The Prosthesis Stories:
An audio installation presenting, for approximately 8 minutes, stories about prostheses collected by the collective’s artists. They will be accompanied by a video translation into ASL.
– The Haptic Dream Sculpture:
This six-handed sculpture bears witness to the initiatory encounter between a Deaf artist, a Blind artist, and a toothless artist and their haptic desires for slowness, landscapes, and the manifestation of our premonitory dreams.
– The Recharge Zone and Rest Zone:
In the tradition of crip time, Black Power Nap, and rest as resistance, slowing down, recharging, and unproductivity are integral parts of our approach. Artists and the public will therefore have access, at all times, to a place of inner renewal and an outdoor rest zone.
The artists:
goldjian charlo,
Karine Rathle,
Mikki Bradshaw,
Alvino Forbes,
Véro Leduc,
Denise Beaudry,
Emilie Peltier,
Joany Darsigny,
Marie Achille,
Steve Day,
Florence Marcelin,
Vytautas Bučionis,
Gaëtane Cummings,
Eli Cortés Carreón
Carlos Parra
*Members of the ALPHA organisation are invited to mediation and co-creation workshops.
À nos prothèses (To our prosthetics) aims to question the relationships of intimacy, conviviality, dispossession and (in)accessibility to our ‘ordinary’ prostheses. The collective organizes a series of workshops, participatory installations and screenings and rituals around our needs, our refusals, our memories and our prosthetic stories. The project represents an opportunity to explore questions of inclusion and cultural citizenship of people with disabilities beyond accessibility. By centering their explorations on the question of “we”, that is to say who speaks? Who thinks? Who contributes to the reflection and reappropriation of the prostheses that will be discussed in the project? The collective approaches its approach to inclusion by focusing on the conditions of “thought by” and “thought for”.
This project is presented as part of the Allo Ada series by Ada X, produced in collaboration with the Maison de la Culture de Rivière-des-Prairies Pointe-aux-Trembles, and benefits from the financial support of the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal as part of the Montreal Cultural Development Agreement.