An Interview with Mélanie O’Bomsawin

Accueil | Home Antenna An Interview with Mélanie O’Bomsawin Video PHI Video PHI October 2nd, 2026 By PHI By PHI October 2nd, 2026 Share Share Share Facebook Bluesky Copy URL URL copied! About the Creative Workshop T8ni tali kd’aïbna - Here, where we are is a creative workshop designed by artist Mélanie O’Bomsawin in collaboration with the PHI education team. This outdoor workshop invites participants to engage in listening as a political and poetic act. It begins with a sensory walk that takes us to a public park near PHI and close to the St. Lawrence River. Once there, we will awaken our senses to capture what is alive around us and become aware that we ourselves are part of this living network. Nature is not something we must seek, but something that we are. Through team-based games of listening, observation, and creation, we will explore the following questions: What can this place teach me? How is it alive? How can we enter into a reciprocal relationship with it?Participants will be invited to create a collaborative and sensitive mapping of the ordinary through a practice of shared attention, using drawings and words on tracing paper. Once back in the educational room, the maps will be layered to reveal the multiplicity of encounters experienced by each participant.You don’t have to travel far to witness the extraordinary. It’s right here in the present moment, within reach. We just have to pay attention. Artist Biography Mélanie O’Bomsawin First a mother, then a daughter and granddaughter, Mélanie O’Bomsawin is also a video editor and new media artist. Born to an Abenaki parent and a Québecois parent, she works with video in all its forms to explore her connections with those who came before her and those who will follow. In her practice, she is interested in questions of identity, language, traditions, memory, and transmission. To explore these themes, she works with stage and architectural projections, gallery installations, and cultural mediation. She creates for past and future generations. Mélanie is a member of the Abenaki community of Odanak and currently lives in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyaang / Montreal. Acknowledgements We’d like to thank the Caisse Desjardins de la Culture for its support of the educational program associated with our spring-summer exhibitions. Share Share Share Facebook Bluesky Copy URL URL copied! 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