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NEST.

Idéation

Emily Laliberté

Organismes partenaires

Chicago Urban Art Retreat
Thresholds

Réalisation

Juillet 2017

Avec l’un des plus haut taux d’homicides aux États-Unis, Chicago est l’une des villes les plus dangereuse d’Amériques. Les disparités socioéconomiques grandissantes y rendent les plus vulnérables à risque chaque jour. Le phénomène de l’itinérance féminine y est en expansion et détient le 3ième rang national du nombre de femmes sans domicile fixe.

Dans le cadre du résidence de création au Chicago urban art retreat, Emily Laliberté, a réalisé un projet collaboratif in situ abordant la notion de safespace avec des femmes ayant vécues en situation d’itinérance.

Au cours de son parcours, l’artiste a rencontré 9 membres de l’organisme Thresholds pour les interroger sur leur rapport à la sécurité. Elle a rédigé de courts récits basés sur chaque rencontre et a co.créé une série d’images
partageant les perspectives des participantes.

1. Thresholds, est l’une des plus ancienne organisation illinoise offrant des services aux personnes souffrant de problématiques de santé mentale ou de dépendance. Les personne souffrant de troubles de santé mentale, ne recevant pas les suivis appropriés se retrouve majoritairement dans la rue. En collaboration avec l’organisme engagé au coeur de la communauté, Nest, souhaite sensibiliser la population à la sécurité comme droit humain.

FRAN
I come from a dysfunctional family. My mom was alcoholic. There was violence everywhere.

I had a son. He died at two. He was in a lot of pain. He needed a liver transplant. I had a nervous breakdown. I got to Memphis and got introduce to crack cocaine. It’s been down the heel ever since.

At the time, I didn’t care about safety. Using was the most important. If I had to portray my safe space, it would be a contrast between darkness and light...

I’m still hunted by everything that happened... 20 years leaving in the street. Going from coach to coach, crack house to crack house. Being rape. Beaten-up. Jumping out of cars. Fearing for my life. I was in a really dark place.

Even though I don’t like it here, I ended up in a safe place. I can lock my door, let the lights on 24/7 and keep the darkness away.

LA DONNA
People don’t care about each other like they use to.
They mostly care about themselves.
Kids don’t think they even gonna pass 30.
You hear about violence everyday one the news…
If everybody was positive the world would be wonderful.
No violence, just beauty.
I always find the thing to smile about. Happiness is loving one another.
When I sing, I think about what God would do to stop this violence.
I think that when people are upset or confuse earing a song make the calm and relax. Signing is my safe place, it makes me feel like home.

« Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home »

ANNETTE
I’m cold and angry, even though it doesn’t look like it.
I got that tattoo as a reminder. Ezequiel 36 : 26 : «I will give you a new spirit, remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.»

I don’t believe love exist. I know it’s out there, but for me it’s just a word. If someone tell you «I love you» a hundred times but still hurts you, what is love suppose to mean?

People can be triggering both mentally and physically for me. I don’t trust them. They make me feel vulnerable and unsafe. There is chaos in this city, you can’t find peace. In my head there is already too much.

When I was homeless, I would find natural and quiet places to meditate. When I bike I feel safe because nobody can touch me or make me feel trap.

Often, I ride to Northerly Island. It’s a beautiful place out and open. There is no one there, it’s calming, peaceful. It feels like an escape.

LAURA
I started to drink when I was 18th. By the age of 23, I was addicted to crack cocaine. While under influence I wasn’t thinking rationally. I did prostitution for a while. I got into an abusive relationship. While I was pregnant, we ran out of money. He was a manipulative man. He convinced me to rob a bank. That got me to prison. I wasn’t safe there. People would make me feel nervous. You know that look over the shoulder type of feeling? I went to rehab. I knew I needed help. I replaced an addiction by an other. I’m crazy about thrift shopping now. I really made a success of my life through sobriety. It’s been 11 years now. My friends, husband and family had been very supportive. I feel safe and bless.

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MAURY

When I started to here voices I didn’t understood why others weren’t hearing them. I was put in a crazy house unwillingly, handcuff to the bed. They said I was a danger to myself. I have lived all over the US. In LA, I was living with my step aunt. She was a freebaser. She was always mean to me taking my money from my work at the Chinese theater, I had to leave. At that time, I met a guy who was homeless and we felt in love. I learned he was on drug while pregnant. He would do me all kinds of things, pawning the car, selling the furniture, make me pick him up at the drug house. When I was homeless I was felling free. I had a crew, a street family. Family as always been important to me. I have lost everything many times but I would always keep a picture of them with me. My grandma have been my rock, my safe place since I was little. The day she died I wouldn’t I wouldn’t let go. My family wanted my to come to the hospital, saying that she was waiting for me. When I arrived she passed right before my eyes.