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Né en Guadeloupe, Eddy Firmin est un artiste conférencier, conservateur et enseignant qui vit et travaille entre Montréal et Halifax, au Canada. Il est titulaire d'un doctorat en Études et Pratiques des Arts de l'Université du Québec à Montréal et d'une maîtrise de l'École supérieure d'art et de design du Havre-Rouen (France). Firmin est le fondateur de la revue de recherche décoloniale Minorit'Art et de Af-flux  Biennale Transnationale Noire, la première biennale d'art contemporain consacrée au dialogue entre les artistes noirs du Canada et de d'ailleurs. Titulaire d'une Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l'art de la diaspora noire transatlantique et l'engagement communautaire à NSCAD, il se concentre sur le concept de récits infongibles.

Eddy Firmin is interested in knowledge sharing policies and the epistemic conflicts they generate in the colonized artist. He thus seeks to remedy the codes of an ancestral Caribbean practice, Gwoka (between dance, song, storytelling and music). The latter belongs to a very large family of Afro-Caribbean practices built to resist colonial violence (such as Paracumbé, Guineo, Bélè, Calenda, Bomba, Tambú, etc.). This pressing need to transfer ancestral codes to recent visual mediums is due to the fact that his islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique have not produced a visual tradition to refer to, this because of the prohibitions of slavery on a restricted perimeter. Apart from resistance, one of the main codes of this practice is lokans. Specific to the singer/storyteller, its purpose is to mask the resistance of the slaves under the trappings of a plastic song driven by technical virtuosity. The lokans is then the shield of flowers behind which war rumbles, because it is also the art of double language. Thus, its practice, among other codes, uses it. Technicality and aesthetics are intended to seduce while the underlying, coded discourse is intended to resist the master discourses (in the arts, as in the social space).

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