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,…L'art et le sport
My favourite memories as a child are of playing. A game of throwing pennies with my father, a wrestling throwdown with my mother, shooting the bow and arow with my uncle or losing a tennis match to my great aunt.…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…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…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…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…(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…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…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…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…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…
