Paper short abstract:

I will present in this conference how the new materialist theories deeply influenced, in a materialized way, my relation to colours, in my work-in-progress second poetry book untitled "Les couleurs accidentelles".

Paper long abstract:

I will present in this conference how the new materialist theories deeply influenced, in a materialized way, my relation to colours, in my work-in-progress second poetry book untitled "Les couleurs accidentelles" ("Accidental Colours"). The starting point of this book is the Theory of Accidental Colours by French naturalist, de Buffon, published in 1743. Using the concept of "ontological imagination" (Nowak 2013) and the works of Serenella Iovino (2013) about magical realism, I will reflect about the potentialities to open these ideas emanating from social sciences in the construction of a concrete poetry book in colours. Incorporating a poetry reading performance, I will try to situate how my double posture, poetic (as a published poet writing in French in Montréal) and ethnographic (as a PhD student in Anthropology), forces me to continually question my own "colours", my own experiences and my subjectivity with regard to the experiences of the Other inside a specific cultural context.

Iovino, Serenella 2013. Loving the Alien. Ecofeminism, Animals, and Anna Maria Ortese's Poetics of Otherness. Feminismo/s 22, diciembre 2013, pp. 177-203.

Nowak, N. W. 2013. Ontological imagination: transcending methodological solipsism and the promise of interdisciplinary studies Avant : Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard, 2013, IV, 2/2013, 169-193.