November 24, 2017

Around Computerese

This edition of Artexte on Air will feature an online conversation with Toronto artist William Perry, a pioneer of Telidon art which used a pre-internet interactive technology in the early 1980s. We will be discussing the mystery surrounding Computerese :…
November 1st, 2017 - 5 PM

Discussions around the exhibition Reading Performance: An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time III

This discussion brings together historians, artists and curators that have participated in bibliographic research projects at Artexte dedicated to various artistic and performance based practices. Presenting their points of view and themes, these individual and collective researchers ask how the…
Fall 2017
For his research residency at Artexte, Michael Blum will work with the periodicals in the collection and explore the space between fanzine and art magazine, between Xerox and offset. He will focus on publications, ranging from the 1960s to the…
November 1, 2017 - 5 PM

Discussions around the exhibition Reading Performance: An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time III

This discussion brings together historians, artists and curators that have participated in bibliographic research projects at Artexte dedicated to various artistic and performance based practices. Presenting their points of view and themes, these individual and collective researchers ask how the…
October 3, 2017 - 6 PM to 8 PM

The 7th Sense + More Caught in the Act

Join us to celebrate a double-launch of More Caught in the Act and The 7th Sense: two new and indispensable books about performance art by women in Canada and Quebec. Editors, authors and artists of both books will host an…
August 16, 2017 - 6 PM to 8 PM

10 Years of Underground Queer Visual Culture in Montreal

Guided tour on August 16 from 6 to 8 PM. Poster exhibition from August 16 to August 30, Wednesday to Friday from noon to 5 PM Join Montreal artist Jamie Ross for a guided tour of a selection of radical…
Summer 2017
This summer we are glad to be in the company of Karla McManus, an art historian who specializes in the study of photography and the environmental imaginary and researcher in residency in our collection. This research project will explore how…
Summer 2017
A research residency on the work of Jayce Salloum as alternative media.   Jayce Salloum has made a career out of interrogating the complicated nature of representation and the power of images and text. His career has also intersected in…
April 27, 2017 - 6 PM to 8 PM

A panel discussion on the EAHR @ Artexte research residency

Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR) is a student-driven research community based within the Art History Department of Concordia University (Montreal, QC). Since summer 2011, EAHR has been facilitating opportunities for exchange and creation in the examination of and engagement with…
2017

Additional content in conjunction with Anne Ramsden's project

The following video interviews featuring Anne Ramsden with artists and curators speaking about their experience working on retrospective or survey exhibitions provide a glimpse of how modern art institutions have formalized the contemplation of past artistic achievements through the form…
February 9, 2017 - 6 PM to 8 PM

A conversation with Nicole Jolicoeur and Denis Lessard

In connection to Anne Ramsden’s current exhibition Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, we are pleased to present a conversation between artists Nicole Jolicoeur, Denis Lessard and Anne Ramsden. Jolicoeur and Lessard will each give a presentation about…
Winter 2017

A research residence on themes of exteriority and exile

This winter, we are pleased to welcome Montreal-based artist, Adam Kinner, for a research residency. Kinner is looking at works and artistic practices, which engage with themes of exteriority, exile, borders and the figure of the alien. He is interested…
February 16, 2017 - 6 PM to 8 PM

An event co-presented with the Art Libraries Society of North America – Montréal, Ottawa, Québec (ARLIS/NA MOQ)

In English and in French Join us for a round table discussion on copyright and the visual arts, addressing questions related to digital collections in libraries, archives and museums. By bringing together artists, cultural workers, librarians, and copyright experts to…

Six Formats: Lecture-performance

We are pleased to welcome Six Formats research group at Artexte.  In early 2017 a group of artists, curators, and art-based researchers will gather for a week to think about and experiment with Lecture-performance as a format of communication of…