In collaboration with Volume MTL
Your favorite annual Artexte event, the Duplicate Book Sale, is finally back! As you know, Artexte receives numerous donations from cultural organizations and individuals throughout the year. At times, some of these publications are already listed in our collection. Thanks…Blackity
This spring Joana Joachim returns to Artexte’s stacks for a research residency focused on Black Canadian art histories. To date there has only been one art historical anthology written with the express purpose of mapping Black Canadian art history across…with Gabrielle Larocque and Le Broke Lab
During the week of June 14, Gabrielle Larocque and members of the Le Broke Lab collective will meet in Artexte’s exhibition space (currently closed to the public) for a three-day laboratory that revisits the collective’s archives in response to research…with Klara du Plessis and Kadie Salmon
Researching the artists’ book in Artexte expansive archival collection during a month-long, virtual residency in May 2021, visual artist Kadie Salmon (London, U.K.) and poet Klara du Plessis (Montreal) have responded with their own —conceptualizing the artists’ book as a…Archiver le vivant : un laboratoire méthodologique
How does the encounter between the document collection and live or performative arts inform the subject of collaboration? My residency draws from Artexte’s material documents —a literature primarily donated by a community of artists and cultural workers— so as to…Wayside Archive
The artefacts and narratives of black queer women rarely surface in archives and art historical canons. Yet, as Katherine McKittrick notes in “Mathematics Black Life,” the genealogies of the black folks—of black life—are to be found in archives. At Artexte,…Narrative of process: activating the artist’s book
Kadie and Klara first met in 2018 while together at an artist- and writer-in-residency program in Montserrat, Spain. They have continued to work together since, using their respective practices to create dialogues between moving-image and poetic works. Drawing on a…Online
Schedule : 2:15 PM: Initial training offered in French and English for people with no prior experience editing Wikipedia articles; 2:15 – 4:00 PM : Edit-a-thon; 4:00 – 5:00 PM : Discussion with Geneviève Wallen and Michaëlle Sergile; As…Online
Artexte is proud to support the Art Gallery of York University in presenting the Desire Lines: Mapping the Metadata of Toronto Arts Publishing speaker series as a prequel to our future exhibition Lignes de désir // Desire Lines: Displaced Narrative…
Looking back on our activities during a very unusual year
As we come to the end of this very unusual and challenging year, we continue to forge ahead in our mission to provide reliable information sources for research on contemporary visual arts. We would like to highlight some of the…in conversation with Mojeanne Behzadi and Karine Boulanger. Online
Following our recent collaborative exhibition Magnetic Sequences, Artexte and Vidéographe invite you to join us on November 25, 2020 for a conference with artist duo and pioneers of the Canadian video art milieu, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak. This discussion…
