Looking back on our activities during a very unusual year
As we come to the end of this very unusual and challenging year, we continue to forge ahead in our mission to provide reliable information sources for research on contemporary visual arts. We would like to highlight some of the…in conversation with Mojeanne Behzadi and Karine Boulanger. Online
Following our recent collaborative exhibition Magnetic Sequences, Artexte and Vidéographe invite you to join us on November 25, 2020 for a conference with artist duo and pioneers of the Canadian video art milieu, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak. This discussion…Online
ARTEXTE Information Centre, the Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques, the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec and the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec are partnering to launch a second series of Wikipedia contribution which is designed to introduce…
Remembering and Evolving Through Video Art
From the comfort of your home, Artexte invites you to explore the practices of artists, researchers, and cultural workers in the contemporary art milieu in Quebec and Canada through texts, publications and media dealing with a range of themes and…Listen, read, educate and engage
At Artexte, we stand in solidarity with Black community and all people dealing with systemic racism on a daily basis. We believe that listening, education, art, access to information and community engagement are essential for an egalitarian society. Online…
Participatory Art and the Eternal Network
From the comfort of your home, Artexte invites you to explore the practices of artists, researchers, and cultural workers in the contemporary art milieu in Quebec and Canada through texts, publications and media dealing with a range of themes and…
Knowledge Commons, Access to Information and Memory
From the comfort of your home, Artexte invites you to explore the practices of artists, researchers, and cultural workers in the contemporary art milieu in Quebec and Canada through texts, publications and media dealing with a range of themes and…
Art + Feminism : Indigenous Voices
From the comfort of your home, Artexte invites you to explore the practices of artists, researchers, and cultural workers in the contemporary art milieu in Quebec and Canada through texts, publications and media dealing with a range of themes and…Logbook of an Artexte Researcher : Analysis of the Archives for a Feminist Study of Erotic Video
Micro-residency with Julie Ravary-Pilon as part of the exhibition Magnetic Sequences They are few opportunities for researchers to take the time to think about their practice and it’s implications. My micro-residency at Artexte will therefore allow me to take…A night in the Emerald City
On the occasion of the Nuit Blanche presented as part of the MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE festival, Artexte invites you to the Emerald City with an evening of projections of the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz. The film will be…Screening presented as part of the exhibition Magnetic Sequences
Presented at Dazibao 5455 avenue de Gaspé espace 109, Montréal, QC H2T 3B3 Presented as part of the exhibition Magnetic Sequences, co organized by Artexte and Vidéographe, this program highlights the often hypnotic nature of video art from the…Taking place at Artexte every last Thursday of the month
ARTEXTE, the Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques – CQAM, the RAIQ – Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec and the RCAAQ / Réseau Art Actuel are partnering to organize a series of Wikipedia contribution events between January and May 2020.…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,…A series of presentations by Adam Kinner, Carola Dertnig, Anique Jordan
Moving Histories and Discourse looks at how artistic practices not only can question dominant normative and colonial narratives but have the power to shift our/their/all perspectives on and within them – as they come into being, are re-staged or simply…Help us, we have too many!
2019 is already drawing to a close, but our programming still has more to offer. We’ve yet to host our most exciting event of the year: our famous annual Duplicate Book Sale! As you know, Artexte receives numerous donations from…
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…Conference of Caroline Blais
Following her research residency at Artexte, Caroline Blais will share her reflections on the archiving of artistic practices, her book favorites of the collection and will discuss the people she met in this place, whether in person or through their…Launch organized by TRUCK Contemporary Art and Artexte
Please join us and TRUCK Contemporary Art on the evening of November 28, 2019 for the Montreal launch for Rita McKeough: Works, a monograph publication on Rita McKeough’s contributions to the Canadian art milieu, produced in partnership with EMMEDIA Gallery…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…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…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…Join us for an afternoon with the Queer BETWEEN the COVERS (QBTC)
As part of the 12th Montreal Queer Book Fair, the QBTC collective and Artexte invites you to an afternoon of projections on queer publishing cultures around the world through a selection of short documentaries and clips. Featuring slam poets in…Lexicon on happiness and well-being
In 2018, Michèle Champagne examined the broad concept of happiness by questioning its silhouette, industry, vocabulary and legibility in our society. Through this exploration, Champagne conducted a critical and nuanced reflection on happiness and well-being when they get mixed up…Organized by Le laps and Artexte
The publishing house Le laps is pleased to announced the launch of Les confessions by Sophie Jodoin. The launch will take place at Artexte in presence of the author. Les confessions is a recent project that reflects Sophie Jodoin’s…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,…Conference with the artist Ken Lum
In advance of the Concordia University Press publication of Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991–2018 (October 2019), and as part of a workshop organized by A-B-Z in association with Artexte, artist Ken Lum will speak on typography…
