Jad Orphée Chami

Jad Orphée Chami (he/him) is an artist-researcher and composer based between Tio’tia:ke/Montréal and Paris. Specializing in oral history performance, he composed the original score for the feature film Antigone, Canada’s submission for the 92nd Academy Awards, and the TV documentary Dorchester: In the Midst of the Fray, featured on Radio-Canada and CBC. An Iris Prize nominee for Best Original Score, Orphée received a grant from the Quebec Arts Council for his first project as a singer-songwriter, produced by Lewis Lines. He was also commissioned by Montréal, arts interculturels – MAI for a public artwork, collaborating with Angelina Guo, Kimura Byol-Lemoine, and in dialogue with Moe Clark, Soleil Launière, and Maya Cousineau Mollen. Currently, he is pursuing a research-creation Ph.D. at UQAM under the supervision of intermedia artist Éric Letourneau. His research focuses on the act of witnessing in the context of grief in exile. Alongside his practice, he facilitates workshops on the act of witnessing. He was awarded the Antje-Bettin Intercultural Fund Prize.