November 30, 2019

a poetry reading and screening

Tanya Lukin Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater reads passages from her book of poetry, Slow Scrape. Followed by a conversation with Robin Simpson.   Tanya Lukin Linklater often makes performances with dancers and sometimes composers/musicians in relation to objects in exhibitions,…

The artists discuss their selection of documents

In this series of video clips, several artists discuss their selection of documents for the Symposium Discourse in Motion, which is the final event of An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time and the beginning of a series of public projects…
Fall 2019

(Double)-Fisting (Endless) Loop

Based on a set of spontaneously generated word prompts offered by Eloisa Aquino, I added a word to each prompt, then parsed the general sentiment of the list into general themes that interest me. A somewhat “random” entry point that…
Fall 2019

Wikipedian in residence

We are proud to welcome Camille Larivée as the first Wikipedian in residence at Artexte for the month of October. She will also participate in the roundtable discussion that will take place on November 9, 2019, during the third edition…
October 2, 2019 - 6 PM

Bcc: Blind Carbon Copy, bringing the moon within. Artist performance followed by a conversation with Jessica Hébert

For the second edition of VOLUME, Art and the Book, Artexte has invited artist Pascaline Knight for a micro-residency in the collection, which centers around three clickable keywords chosen by the artist : Map, Feminine, Bird. The results of her…
September 25 - 28, 2019

#VivaWords, A research residency for the 2019 edition of VIVA! Art Action

For the seventh edition of VIVA! Art Action, Simon Brown will part-take in a playful, multilingual writing residency at Artexte. On-site use of various collaborative and experimental approaches, in dialogue with the performances. Publication of produced texts in real time…
August 1, 2019

An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time: Performance Art in Quebec and Canada IV

Place Publique | Fonderie Darling, Montréal With Sophie Castonguay, Faire corps avec Foucault anonymat (2019) & Francys Chenier, Comme aphorismes, ouvertures et semences de discours (2019) Curated by Jade Boivin & Camille Richard Considering the meeting between performance and writing…
Summer 2019
I browse visual archives to tilt them into the imaginary and the felt. By collecting and sampling artifacts and visual textures, I manually transform these concrete sources into a digital platform to give them a new poetic and playful value.…
June 19, 2019 - 6 PM to 8 PM

Francesca Ekwuyasi, Yaya, and the Ocean, A research residency presented as part of the exhibition SPECULATIONS

Within the context of the exhibition SPECULATIONS, we are thrilled to welcome writer and filmmaker Francesca Ekwuyasi for a research residency in the collection. Ekwuyasi was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During…
June 11, 2019 - 2 PM to 3:30 PM

Panel discussion with John Tain (Asia Art Archive), Sara Nicole England and Mikhel Proulx (Indigenous Digital Art Archive), and Jessica Hébert (Artexte)

A Conversation on Indigenous/Asian Art Archives is a panel bringing together representatives from Artexte, Asia Art Archive (AAA), and Indigenous Digital Art Archive (IDAA) to discuss some of the issues raised when documenting and preserving contemporary art and visual culture,…
May 25, 2019 - 12 PM to 5 PM

An Art and Design Workshop on Typography with Ken Lum

A-B-Z introduces LUM, an art and design workshop with artist Ken Lum. Through an open call for participation, A-B-Z welcomes international applicants from visual art, graphic design and literature across media, and invites curious students and professionals of all ages,…
Winter 2018 - 2019

Research residency with Nuria Carton de Grammont, My-Van Dam, Stanley Février and Michaëlle Sergile

The collective research project, Politiques + (in)visibles is an in-depth investigation into the notion of “diversity” and the different groups and movements created by “racialized” people from the 1960s until today in contemporary Canadian and Quebecois art. Our questions revolve…
March 30, 2019 - 12 PM to 5 PM

Artexte and the MAC team up for a contributive day on Wikipedia

WHERE 2, Saint-Catherine Street East, Room 301   SCHEDULE 12:00 pm: Word of welcome 12:15 pm – 4:00 pm: Edit-a-thon with ongoing support and training offered by Artexte staff. 4:00 – 5:00 pm: Round table discussion with Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, Dominique…
March 7, 2019 - 5 PM

Artist talk with kimura byol-nathalie lemoine (나타리 르무완 * ナタリー.ルモワーヌ) and Kim Waldron

Knowing that most interracial and international adoptions send children of color into Western Caucasian families, the artist and activist kimura byol-nathalie lemoine wanted to present another vision of what interracial adoption could be. To realize this, the artist Kim Waldron…