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.

March 27, 2015 - 12 PM to 9 PM

A marathon reading of Edward Said’s texts regarding politics of representation

If you would like to read at the marathon reading, please sign up to this calendar Through a shared interest to confront questions around the politics of representation, in images as well as words, and in response to discussions with…
Winter 2015
From February to April 2015, Artexte welcomes Montreal based artist Adam Kinner for a research residency exploring the intersection of the dancing body and the state. With Artexte’s support, he will pursue research for an upcoming project titled The Gesture…
Winter 2015
Artexte accueille l’artiste, écrivain et commissaire Francys Chenier dans le cadre d’un projet ponctuel. Suite à une lecture conjointe avec l’artiste interdisciplinaire Sylvie Cotton du Corps utopique de Michel Foucault, les deux se réuniront au mois de mars afin de…
March 4-6, 2015 - 12 PM to 7 PM

A warm welcome for students!

During reading week, Artexte invites students to come study and do research in our sunlit spaces and enjoy free tea and coffee! In addition to the usual consultation room, the conference room will be open for extra study space. As…
Winter 2015

Uncovering Asian Canadian and Black Canadian Artistic Production

April 2 to April 30 – Vitrines on display in the consultation room April 2, from 5 PM to 7 PM – Exhibition and catalogue launch Founded in 2011, The Ethnocultural Art Histories Research group (EAHR) is a student-led research…
October 16 - 18, 2014

Special presentation during the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective’s Iakwé:Iahre Colloquium

This month, Artexte is pleased to welcome members of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC). The ACC will be in Montreal for their annual meeting, which will be held at Concordia University (October 16-18). This colloquium, called Iakwé:Iahre [we remember], focuses…
October 20-26, 2014

Highlighting Open Access material from e-artexte

Organizations make their publications accessible online using the e-artexte digital repository, which currently holds more than 350 public digital documents. To celebrate Open Access Week, Artexte is highlighting Open Access material from e-artexte.   The Centre des arts actuels Skol …
Fall 2014

As part of this fall's research residency program, Artexte welcomes two inspiring researchers

Louis Rastelli (Montréal) Writer, editor, DJ, musician and important figure of the local artistic community, Louis Rastelli participated in the making of multiple independent publications and co-founded Expozine in 2009. He is also co-founder of Archive Montréal, a non-profit organization…
June 20, 2014 - 6 PM

Bruno Schulz’s fantastical autobiography, Sklepy cynamonowe (1934)

For the second edition of One hour, one book, and on this day marking the anniversary of his father, René Canty de Lachine (1928-2013), Daniel Canty has chosen to read from Bruno Schulz’s (1892-1942) fantastical autobiography,Sklepy cynamonowe (1934), translated as…
May 1, 2014 - 1 PM to 4 PM

Thinking Through “Enquête sur les modes d’existence” by Bruno Latour

Art historian, Christine Ross, in collaboration with Artexte, will hold a seminar gathering a dozen contemporary art historians affiliated with Montreal’s four universities. This seminar aims to give an account of current research practices in contemporary art. As an orientation…
May 21st - 30, 2014
New York based artist Nick Kline is at Artexte for a week-long research residency from May 21st to 30th. Kline’s research will involve a wandering process through the collection, searching for publications that explore processes of frottage (rubbings), castings, contact…
May 30, 2014 - 6 PM

Le schizo et les langues, by Louis Wolfson

This spring  Artexte launches a new series entitled One Hour, One Book. Artists and researchers from many disciplines are invited to present a book of their choice. These presentations may take the form of readings, talks, screenings or performances and…
April 11, 2014 - 4 PM to 7 PM

Journal launch

Inflexions is an online multi-media journal with Open Humanities Press and is sponsored by The SenseLab. The journal foregrounds research-creation projects that aim to promote experimental practices in such a way as to foster symbiotic links between philosophical inquiry, technological…
March 28, 2014 - 5 PM to 7 PM

Book launch and performative talk with Geneviève Cadieux and Massimo Guerrera

Links between art, contemporaneity, and the common lie at the heart of Chantal Pontbriand’s writings as a critic, editor, and curator. This collection of essays written in the first decade of the twenty-first century looks at the different issues that…