September 22, 2016 - 6 PM to 8 PM

Roundtable

We are pleased to present a round table related to the current exhibition, Canadian Photography Magazines, 1970-1990, organized in collaboration with Serge Allaire, historian of Quebec art and photography and research resident at Artexte. This round table discussion will bring…
August 12, 2016 - 5:30 PM to 7 PM

An artist’s talk presented in collaboration with the Queer Between the Covers Bookfair and Qouleur

(in English with bilingual a question period)   The Artexte team is pleased to host an artist’s talk by Vancouver-based artist Ho Tam, who will give a talk on his serial artist’s publication projects. This artist’s talk is presented in…
Summer 2016

A research residency on the photobook

We are pleased to welcome historian of Quebec art and photography Serge Allaire as a research resident at Artexte. The primary goal of this research residency is to locate and identify photobooks in Artexte’s holdings and to propose a rigorous…
Summer 2016
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear Artists, curators and writers all at some point reflect back on the body of work they have realized over an extended period of time. Modern art institutions formalized the contemplation of past…
March 9, 2016 - 6 PM to 7:30 PM

A round table on Art, Agency and Homelands

We are pleased to present a round table moderated by Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim, the recipient of the 2015 Artexte prize. This round table discussion will bring together curator Srimoyee Mitra and artists Patrick Beaulieu and Leila Sujir, who…
February 27, 2016 - 8 PM, 10 PM and 00 AM

Screenings of the classic film Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut

This year for Montreal’s Nuit blanche, the Artexte team offers free screenings of François Truffaut’s classic science-fiction film Fahrenheit 451, based on Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, which imagines a world where all books are destroyed. For one night the reading…
March 3, 2016 - 6 PM

Publication launch and performance by Francys Chenier with Sylvie Cotton

During the winter of 2015, artist Francys Chenier carried out a research residency at Artexte. Following the joint reading by Chenier and interdisciplinary artist Sylvie Cotton of Michel Foucault’s Le Corps utopique, the two came together in March 2015 for…
January 21, 2015 - 6 PM to 8 PM

Public conference presented in collaboration with the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery

The result of a close collaboration between Artexte and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, this public seminar aims to deepen reflections on the epistemological, cultural, social, political and ethical issues pertaining to reading as methodology. Presented at Artexte…