Activities
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- An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time (exhibition)
- Art+Feminism Editathon
- Artexte on air
- Artexte on tap
- Artexte Prize
- Artletics (exhibition)
- Audio
- Blackity (exhibition)
- Bucky Ball (exhibition)
- Canadian Photography Magazines (exhibition)
- Changeover (exhibition)
- Classroom of Language (exhibition)
- Collaborations
- Consigned for Auction (exhibition)
- Contemporary Arts X Wiki Workshops
- Desire Lines (exhibition)
- Document XXL (exhibition)
- Dualité / Dualité (exhibition)
- Duplicate Book Sale
- FAIMTL
- in a single breath (exhibition)
- Incipit Scree Explicit (exhibition)
- Inside/Outside (exhibition)
- Journées de la culture
- L’Underground à la Loupe (exhibition)
- nuit blanche
- Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear (exhibition)
- One Hour One Book
- Outside (exhibition)
- Papier Art Fair
- printed art
- Sonic Fields of Reflection (exhibition)
- Speculations (exhibition)
- Statements
- Symposium International d’Art Contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul
- The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas (exhibition)
- Video
- Volume MTL
- Web archiving
- Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (exhibition)
Artexte’s permanent collection is alive! It is activated through public events in support of new research, writing, as well as creating new artworks and publications around visual and print culture. Artexte aims to be inclusive of all visual cultures existing across contemporary art communities. Our on-site and virtual offerings include conferences, workshops, artist talks, performances, film screenings, as well as many interinstitutional collaborations and off-site activities.
Contemporary arts X Wiki workshops
Taking place at Artexte every last Thursday of the month
ARTEXTE, the Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques – CQAM, the RAIQ – Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec and the RCAAQ / Réseau Art Actuel are partnering to organize a series of Wikipedia contribution events between January and May 2020.…Artexte on Air : Guadalupe Martínez
Video Symposium : Writing and Performing
a poetry reading and screening
Tanya Lukin Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater reads passages from her book of poetry, Slow Scrape. Followed by a conversation with Robin Simpson. Tanya Lukin Linklater often makes performances with dancers and sometimes composers/musicians in relation to objects in exhibitions,…Videos Symposium : Moving Histories and Discourses
A series of presentations by Adam Kinner, Carola Dertnig, Anique Jordan
Moving Histories and Discourse looks at how artistic practices not only can question dominant normative and colonial narratives but have the power to shift our/their/all perspectives on and within them – as they come into being, are re-staged or simply…2019 Duplicate Book Sale !
Help us, we have too many!
2019 is already drawing to a close, but our programming still has more to offer. We’ve yet to host our most exciting event of the year: our famous annual Duplicate Book Sale! As you know, Artexte receives numerous donations from…Videos: An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time 2019
The artists discuss their selection of documents
In this series of video clips, several artists discuss their selection of documents for the Symposium Discourse in Motion, which is the final event of An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time and the beginning of a series of public projects…Artexte on Tap 10 : Decolonial Alliances
Symposium Discourse in Motion
Archive, cartoon & namedropping
Conference of Caroline Blais
Following her research residency at Artexte, Caroline Blais will share her reflections on the archiving of artistic practices, her book favorites of the collection and will discuss the people she met in this place, whether in person or through their…Jenny Lin @ Artexte
(Double)-Fisting (Endless) Loop
Based on a set of spontaneously generated word prompts offered by Eloisa Aquino, I added a word to each prompt, then parsed the general sentiment of the list into general themes that interest me. A somewhat “random” entry point that…Launch | Works by Rita McKeough
Launch organized by TRUCK Contemporary Art and Artexte
Please join us and TRUCK Contemporary Art on the evening of November 28, 2019 for the Montreal launch for Rita McKeough: Works, a monograph publication on Rita McKeough’s contributions to the Canadian art milieu, produced in partnership with EMMEDIA Gallery…Camille Larivée @ Artexte
Wikipedian in residence
We are proud to welcome Camille Larivée as the first Wikipedian in residence at Artexte for the month of October. She will also participate in the roundtable discussion that will take place on November 9, 2019, during the third edition…Artexte and the MAC team up for : Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Pascaline Knight @ Artexte
Bcc: Blind Carbon Copy, bringing the moon within. Artist performance followed by a conversation with Jessica Hébert
For the second edition of VOLUME, Art and the Book, Artexte has invited artist Pascaline Knight for a micro-residency in the collection, which centers around three clickable keywords chosen by the artist : Map, Feminine, Bird. The results of her…Simon Brown @ Artexte
#VivaWords, A research residency for the 2019 edition of VIVA! Art Action
For the seventh edition of VIVA! Art Action, Simon Brown will part-take in a playful, multilingual writing residency at Artexte. On-site use of various collaborative and experimental approaches, in dialogue with the performances. Publication of produced texts in real time…Possible awakenings #5. An evening of performances.
An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time: Performance Art in Quebec and Canada IV
Place Publique | Fonderie Darling, Montréal With Sophie Castonguay, Faire corps avec Foucault anonymat (2019) & Francys Chenier, Comme aphorismes, ouvertures et semences de discours (2019) Curated by Jade Boivin & Camille Richard Considering the meeting between performance and writing…Special Projection: Zines on Film
Join us for an afternoon with the Queer BETWEEN the COVERS (QBTC)
As part of the 12th Montreal Queer Book Fair, the QBTC collective and Artexte invites you to an afternoon of projections on queer publishing cultures around the world through a selection of short documentaries and clips. Featuring slam poets in…Michèle Champagne : Life, Smile, Publication
Lexicon on happiness and well-being
In 2018, Michèle Champagne examined the broad concept of happiness by questioning its silhouette, industry, vocabulary and legibility in our society. Through this exploration, Champagne conducted a critical and nuanced reflection on happiness and well-being when they get mixed up…Caroline Blais @ Artexte
Artexte X Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul
Inside/Outside
For the 37th edition of the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, within the theme Art, Architecture, Landscape, Environment, Artexte propose an abridged version of the exhibition Inside/Outside: Images of the LAND in Artexte’s Collection curated by Karla McManus. …Launch | Les confessions by Sophie Jodoin
Organized by Le laps and Artexte
The publishing house Le laps is pleased to announced the launch of Les confessions by Sophie Jodoin. The launch will take place at Artexte in presence of the author. Les confessions is a recent project that reflects Sophie Jodoin’s…Francesca Ekwuyasi @ Artexte
Francesca Ekwuyasi, Yaya, and the Ocean, A research residency presented as part of the exhibition SPECULATIONS
Within the context of the exhibition SPECULATIONS, we are thrilled to welcome writer and filmmaker Francesca Ekwuyasi for a research residency in the collection. Ekwuyasi was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During…A Conversation on Indigenous/Asian Art Archives
Panel discussion with John Tain (Asia Art Archive), Sara Nicole England and Mikhel Proulx (Indigenous Digital Art Archive), and Jessica Hébert (Artexte)
A Conversation on Indigenous/Asian Art Archives is a panel bringing together representatives from Artexte, Asia Art Archive (AAA), and Indigenous Digital Art Archive (IDAA) to discuss some of the issues raised when documenting and preserving contemporary art and visual culture,…NOT MY TYPE: Thoughts on Typographic Taste
Conference with the artist Ken Lum
In advance of the Concordia University Press publication of Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991–2018 (October 2019), and as part of a workshop organized by A-B-Z in association with Artexte, artist Ken Lum will speak on typography…Digital Textualities: Publishing Sphere
Cumming Commons
A research intervention and performance
Artexte is thrilled to welcome Lindsay Nixon and Adrienne Huard for a research intervention in the Artexte collection. Nixon and Huard will conduct research on the nature of The Archive and on Indigenous art criticism since the 1980s within the…A-B-Z presents A-B-Z-LUM
An Art and Design Workshop on Typography with Ken Lum
A-B-Z introduces LUM, an art and design workshop with artist Ken Lum. Through an open call for participation, A-B-Z welcomes international applicants from visual art, graphic design and literature across media, and invites curious students and professionals of all ages,…Artexte on Tap 8: Catherine Barnabé’s micro-residency
Presented as part of the Montreal Printed Art Festival (FAIMTL) 2019
This micro-residency is part of the second edition of the Montreal Printed Art Festival (FAIMTL) 2019, around the theme of the “other” spaces that print art can occupy, that is public or virtual spaces. With the vast idea of exploring…Politiques + (in)visibles @ Artexte
Research residency with Nuria Carton de Grammont, My-Van Dam, Stanley Février and Michaëlle Sergile
The collective research project, Politiques + (in)visibles is an in-depth investigation into the notion of “diversity” and the different groups and movements created by “racialized” people from the 1960s until today in contemporary Canadian and Quebecois art. Our questions revolve…