Guided tours: collection + Blackity
From May 12th to 22nd, 2022, the Montreal Printed Art Festival will be in full swing across the island, with a vast programming of satellite activities for its second edition. Artexte will take part of it on Saturday, May 14!…Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Schedule: 12:30 – 13:00 pm: guided tour of “Créer à rebours vers l’exposition : le cas d’Art et féminisme” with the curators, Geneviève Marcil and Valérie Morin at VOX (space 401); 1:00 – 1:30 pm: guided tour of Blackity with…Online – presented by Contemporary Arts X Wiki virtual Workshops
For years, many artistic projects have been taking place on the Web, the pandemic has acted as an accelerator of this type of dissemination. Virtual exhibitions and digital publications are multiplying on all sides! But what about the preservation of…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…Online
ARTEXTE Information Centre, the RCAAQ / Réseau Art Actuel and Repaire – Regroupement de pairs des arts indépendants de recherche et d’expérimentation (previously known as the Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques, the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec) are partnering…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…
