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…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,…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…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…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…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…(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…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…#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…Inside/Outside
For the 37th edition of the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, within the theme Art, Architecture, Landscape, Environment, Artexte propose an abridged version of the exhibition Inside/Outside: Images of the LAND in Artexte’s Collection curated by Karla McManus. …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…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…A research intervention and performance
Artexte is thrilled to welcome Lindsay Nixon and Adrienne Huard for a research intervention in the Artexte collection. Nixon and Huard will conduct research on the nature of The Archive and on Indigenous art criticism since the 1980s within the…Presented as part of the Montreal Printed Art Festival (FAIMTL) 2019
This micro-residency is part of the second edition of the Montreal Printed Art Festival (FAIMTL) 2019, around the theme of the “other” spaces that print art can occupy, that is public or virtual spaces. With the vast idea of exploring…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…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…Winter garden
Greenhouses represent the dream of an open roof, a space where the longing for a never-ending summertime and the reconciliation with nature converge. Artexte’s little Sunroom evokes this imaginary paradise that synthesizes humans and nature, while relating to Victorian…Micro-residency / nènè myriam konaté
This month we are trying something new with Artexte on Tap : we are now opening up the floor to the community! The Artexte on Tap series will now include micro-residencies, where we invite local artists and researchers to spend…Memory, consciousness, imagination: art and politics
« All anyone needs to aspire to politically is to do what they can, and to do their best. To change an opinion, or an attitude, or to modify a knee-jerk response, or to catalyze an ongoing process of personal…a particular case. «J’en ai fait un cas particulier et non un cas d’espèce» Marguerite Duras, La vie matérielle
During her residency, Céline Huyghebaert will act as a researcher and occupy the Artexte documentation center to extract discourses about contemporary artists. Expanding on a residency at La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City in 2016, she will compile documents, collect…
