JOSEPH Mélanie

Contact details

melaniejoseph@protonmail.com

Functions

2019-Present Doctoral student in the practice and theory of literary and artistic creation, under the supervision of Sylvia Girel, Fabrice Métais (ED 354, PRISM) and Jean-Claude Ruggirello (Beaux-Arts de Marseille)

Thesis subject Les invisibles entre réels et fictions; le corps Sourd à l'épreuve de l'art et de la sociologie" (The invisible between reality and fiction; the Deaf body put to the test by art and sociology)

2019-2022 Vacant doctoral student at Aix-Marseille University

2022-2023 Extension of doctoral grant, A*Midex Foundation

2019-2022 Vacation Licence professionnelle Intervention sociale : accompagnement de publics spécifiques

2021-2022 Associate researcher status at the Institut National d'Audiovisuel

Areas of research

  • Sociology of Disability
  • Visual Sociology
  • Theory of art
  • Artistic specialisation: Video Art, Performance
  • Deaf Studies

Scientific coordinator, programme manager

Research networks

  • 2022-Present Member of the Deaf Studies Collective, EHESS

Organisation of scientific events

  • Organiser of a study day in partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, PRISM and MESOPOLHIS " Creating with signed languages: translating against violence". e.s: Salma Mochtari (Collectif Qalqalah), Julie Chateauvert (St Paul's University, Canada) and Olivier Schétrit (EHESS, Paris), 16 May 2023, Marseille.
  • Co-organiser with the curator Veronica Valentini, workshop, Frac Lorraine, 4 and 5 November 2022, Metz.
  • Scientific mediation, Festival des sciences, 14 and 15 October 2022, Marseille.
  • Co-organiser with Eliabel Agard, "Chantiers de thèse", Lames, MMSH, 2020-2021, Aix-en-Provence.

Productions

Articles

  •  "La langue des signes française et le livre", Les ateliers du livre, BNF, under peer review.
  • Proposal for a journal article, "Creating a space for a silent community to speak: the challenges of research-creation", Mutations en Méditerannée (MeM), currently undergoing peer review.
  • "Poésies Sourdes, Revue GPS, 11 June 2020.
  • "Peuple exposé", PiLAB, ESADMM edition, November 2018, Marseille.

Editorial Committee

  •  PiLAB, ESADMM edition, November 2018, Marseille.

Communications

  •  "Recherche Création sur les archives télévisuelles des années 1950-1970: recueillir la parole sourde à propos des images du passé", 11th ALTER conference, 29-30 June 2023, Paris.
  • "French sign language and books", Book workshops, BNF, 22 November 2022, Paris.
  • "La parole des sourds sur leur représentation dans les archives télévisuelles des années 1950-1970", Handicap(s) et Sociétés Young Researchers Seminar, 6 April 2022, Paris.
  • "Where are the Deaf? A contemporary look at French television from 1950-1975", Colloquium "Censuring the Arts, Framing Bodies", Ecole Nationale des Chartres, 4 and 5 February 2022, Paris.
  • "La vidéo élicitation comme méthode de réappropriation de la parole des sujets Sourds vis à vis des images issus des archives télévisuelles des années 1950-1970", seminar Les Deaf Studies en question, EHESS, 12 January 2022, Paris.

Poster/ Feedback session

  • Poster: "Translating against violence: the stakes of a restitution of a minority group's speech", Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference, 6-8 September 2023, Vienna.
  • Feedback session: "Invisibility between reality and fiction: the deaf body challenged by arts and sociology", Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference, 20 June 2021, UQAM, Montreal.

Exhibitions

  •  "Voir ou Appréhender", solo exhibition, Turbulence, February and March 2023, Marseille.
  • "Le.s corps", group show, curated by GloriaCollectif, Coco Velten, 11 to 26 March 2022, Marseille.
  • Performance, "Créations Sourdes", Festival Les Eauditives, 22 May 2022, Toulon.
  • Performance at the Scientifica Sciences Arts day, at Le Cube, 18 June 2022, Aix-en-Provence.
  • Contribution piece (video), Queer Disability Studies Network Launch Event, November 2021, London.
  • Performance-Poetry in LSF with Marine COMTE, Festival les Eauxditives, August 2020, Toulon.
  • Impromptu" exhibition with Audrey Taguet, la gare/le quai 294M9, June and July 2020, Saint-Maurice-lès-Châteauneuf.
    https://esoxlucius-art.blogspot.com/2019/11/jusqua-la-mi-juillet-nous-proposons.html
  • Online exhibition "Stay behind your screens 2", April 2020, Marseille.
  • Performed Lecture "Entropotopia" with Primavera Gomes Caldas Newton Offices, June 2019, Marseille.
  • "Glissement de terrain" residency report, Galerie ArtCade Bains Douches, May 2019, Marseille.
  • "PiLAB Création Video Programming" Jean Rouch Festival, Mucem, December 2018, Marseille.
    http://www.mucem.org/programme/programmation-video-pilab-creation
  • "ACUERDO TÁCITO" La Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, el Sistema de Bibliotecas y el Proyecto Centro Cultural, May 2018, Bogotà, Colombia.
  • "Rencontres Photographiques de Cassis", 4th edition, Salle voutée, February 2018, Cassis.
  • "With the eyes of a deaf man", Mac Val, January 2017, Paris. http://www.macval.fr/francais/evenements/archives/2017/article/avec-les-yeux-d-unsourd#h3_tdm
  • "Around the score: Rendez-Vous with ESADMM", Videodrome, November 2016, Marseille.
    http://www.videodrome2.fr/autour-de-la-partition-rendez-vous-avec-lesadmm/
  • "A la reconquête du réel", 10th edition of RISC, Les Variétés, November 2016, Marseille. http://www.pollymaggoo.org/doc_polly/telechargements/risc-
    2016/RISC2016_PROG_A5_PAGES.pdf
  • "Prétexte, Point It", With Valérie Mréjen, Festival Actoral, La Friche De Belle Mai, October 2014, Marseille. https://www.marseilleexpos.com/blog/2014/08/26/valerie-mrejen-et-les-etudiants-delesadmm-au-festival-actoral/
  • "PILAB CRÉATION, 2nd EDITION" - Théâtre National La Criée, November 2013, Marseille.
    http://www.scoop.it/t/esadmm/p/4011004309/2013/11/14/exposition-pilab-creation-a-lacriee-du-vendredi-15-au-dimanche-17-novembre
  • "PiLAB CRÉATION, CAMPUS 2013", MAD, ESADMM gallery, July 2013, Marseille.