Colour photograph showing archival boxes on a shelf. We can see the details of a few boxes, including their numbers and the names of the artists whose documents they contain.
Deadline: March 31, 2025

Research and writing residency program for Indigenous artists, curators and researchers 2025

Thanks to the support of the Indigenous Arts Committee of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, Artexte is proud to launch a call for a research and writing residency on contemporary art. For a period of three to six months,…
Photographie couleur format portrait d'un « selfie » d'une personne aux cheveux bourgogne portant un chapeau noir avec des plumes noires, un collier avec une fleur en diamant et une camisole noire. Un rideau en velour turquoise est derrière la personne.
Fall 2024
“Lesbian and queer women artists often remain invisible within Canadian art history. Even when their artworks are included, their sexuality is often effaced, and no survey book has ever been written about Canadian lesboqueer artists. For my research residency at…
Photographie couleur format carré d'une oeuvre installée sur un mur blanc. On peut y lire « ennui brûlant » en typographie gothique autour d'une photographie du pare-choc d'une auto ayant l'air brûlé.
Fall 2024
“Despite a distance that often leads us to differentiate, or at least compare, ourselves, a certain proximity exists between the millennial experience and the revolutionary youth of the 1970s. Since 2016, my research has looked at the resurgence of countercultural…
Photo of the chapbook by Yaniya Lee. The minimalist blue cover is marked by the title of the book in white. Written in capital letters, the title reads "A Black art history project by Yaniya Lee" at the top of the cover. In the centre, it says "Buseje Bailey" in larger font. Finally, at the bottom of the cover, it written in medium font "reasons why we have to disappear every once in a while". The blue cover contrasts with the clarity of the uniform white background.
May 2, 2024 — 5:00 PM @ Artexte

As part of Yaniya Lee’s research residency

As part of her research residency Wayside Archive at Artexte (summer 2021), writer and critic Yaniya Lee was interested by the artefacts and narratives of Black queer women, which rarely surface in archives and historical canons. The researcher was hoping…
Winter 2024
“South Asian people form the largest visible minority group in Canada—however, given that only 6% of this population reside in Québec, and as a response to its ongoing invisibilization, many have come to describe this community as “invisible” [1]. As…
Collection of books from Hanss Lujan Torres' research on the development of queerness in contemporary art.
Fall 2023
During his residency, researcher and curator Hanss Lujan Torres will delve into Artexte’s collection to explore exhibitions, events, and art practices addressing gender and sexuality in the 1990s and early 2000s. Inspired by cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of…
Launch WWWWW
September 16, 2023 — 1:30 PM @ VOX / 3 PM @ Artexte

Presented as part of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image and in collaboration with VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine

On the occasion of the 18th edition of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, and in collaboration with VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Artexte is pleased to invite you to the launch of Who Was Who Was Who in Contemporary Canadian Art…
Fall 2022

Language Classroom: Synthesis

The starting point of “Language Classroom: Synthesis” is based on Rad Hourani’s own experience, who, as a dyslexic, ADD and dysphonic person, has felt socially excluded from a young age because of his difficulties in reading and writing. Starting from…
September 10, 2022 — 11 AM to 12 PM @ online

Co-organized by 7A*11D International Festival of Performance and Artexte

In partnership with the 7A*11D International Festival of Performance, Toronto Performance Art Collective and Artexte are pleased to invite you to the virtual launch of the digital reissue of w.o.r.k.s.c.o.r.e.p.o.r.t on September 10, 2022, at 11:00 am (EDT) on Zoom.…
Summer 2021

Blackity

This spring Joana Joachim returns to Artexte’s stacks for a research residency focused on Black Canadian art histories. To date there has only been one art historical anthology written with the express purpose of mapping Black Canadian art history across…
Summer 2021
St-Amour is currently engaging in research toward a collective publication – a survey/catalog of publishing methodologies with a focus on publishing networks and communities. Developed via a series of exhibitions, residencies and workshops held between 2019 and early 2020, St-Amour…
Spring 2021
“Beginning with history, depending on how you understand it, could quite easily keep you going almost indefinitely, one thing leading to the next, till you got to your end, never perhaps having gotten past the beginning.” [1] — Anne Ramsden…
Spring 2021

Archiver le vivant : un laboratoire méthodologique

How does the encounter between the document collection and live or performative arts inform the subject of collaboration? My residency draws from Artexte’s material documents —a literature primarily donated by a community of artists and cultural workers—  so as to…
Summer 2021

Wayside Archive

The artefacts and narratives of black queer women rarely surface in archives and art historical canons. Yet, as Katherine McKittrick notes in “Mathematics Black Life,” the genealogies of the black folks—of black life—are to be found in archives. At Artexte,…
Spring 2021

Narrative of process: activating the artist’s book

Kadie and Klara first met in 2018 while together at an artist- and writer-in-residency program in Montserrat, Spain. They have continued to work together since, using their respective practices to create dialogues between moving-image and poetic works. Drawing on a…
Fridays, February 26, March 26, April 30 + August 06, 2021 — 2PM to 3:30 PM

Online

Artexte is proud to support the Art Gallery of York University in presenting the Desire Lines: Mapping the Metadata of Toronto Arts Publishing speaker series as a prequel to our future exhibition Lignes de désir // Desire Lines: Displaced Narrative…
March 11, 2020 - 5:30 PM

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…
Winter 2020
Sally Wolchyn-Raab, director of Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be conducting a short research residency on the relationship between printed matter and Artist Run Centres; exploring the development of artist-driven bookstores, archives and libraries. Through examining Artexte’s collection on…