Véro Leduc

Véro Leduc is a committed artist and researcher. She is a professor in the Department of Social and Public Communication at UQAM, where she teaches in the Handicap et sourditude : droits et citoyenneté program, which she also co-founded, as well as in the cultural action program, which trains professionals capable of designing cultural actions and promoting both cultural democratization and cultural democracy. The first Deaf university professor in Quebec and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Deaf Cultural Citizenship and Cultural Equity Practices, her recent work focuses on the artistic practices of Deaf and disabled people in Canada and on Deaf music. In 2020, she was awarded the Governor General’s Medal of Canada for her meritorious work to counter exclusion and strengthen accessibility to university and culture for Deaf and hard of hearing people.

Credits: Katia Gosselin

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À nos prothèses | goldjian

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11 April 2023

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Residency from April 11th to June 6th 2023 At Ada X À nos prothèses interrogates the relationships between intimacy, conviviality, dispossession and (in)accessibility towards our “ordinary” prosthetics. The residency is a collaboration between Véro Leduc, a deaf artist, Carlos Parra, a blind artist and goldjian,…