Fall 2009
During the months of September and October 2009, Artexte is hosting the research residency of Finnish curator Silja Lehtonen. The first in a series of cultural exchanges between Finland and Quebec, this collaboration provides an opportunity for innovative research as…
Summer - Fall 2009
Artexte welcomes New York-based artist Alex Kwartler to a research residency that focuses on the career of  a Canadian artist of the same name  whose practice has become inadvertently entwined with that of his own. Despite the obvious differences between…
Fall 2008

Gift of René Payant

During the month of September 2008, Jen Allen participates in Artexte’s Residency Programme. In 1988, shortly after the death of art historian, critic and curator René Payant, Artexte received an important donation of local, national and international publications on art…
Spring 2008

Reception of Electronic Art in Canada

Timothy Dallett’s project is conceived as an interactive study of the reception of electronic art practices in the Canadian artistic milieu during the period 1965-1995. The focus of the research is the theory and history of dynamic technological systems equivalent…
Fall 2007

Spirited ²

During his residency in November 2007, Ryan Rice will investigate the notion of Two-Spirits, a term usually associated with people who embody both masculinity and femininity. This notion recently became  commonly used within the Aboriginal LGBT communities of North America.…
Fall 2007

Artists’ Publications in Canada

Beyond the book form, artists publications represent a variety of formats, including printed matter as well as projects for radio and television. Ms. Thurmann-Jajes’ research to be conducted in September 2007 is also concerned with the dissemination networks involving these…
2006

Art practices with impaired coefficients of artistic visibility

Invited as researcher-in-residence at Artexte Information Centre, Stephen Wright’s writing and research focuses on art practices with low coefficients of artistic visibility, raising the possibility of a new status for art – in the absence of artworks, authorship or spectatorship.…
2002

Sound in Canadian Contemporary Art

Nicole Gingras investigates how audio practices are used and developed in the Candian art context, and how they link to interdisciplinary forms such as performance, video, sculpture, sound environment , web and radio art. Today, while the use of sound…