Michèle Champagne’s residency follows the contours of happiness, its industry, vocabulary and legibility. Happiness. An emotion? A feeling? Or an object of measure? Facial recognition. Criticize? Smile! “Let us not be afraid of words”. Psychologists, office managers, and data scientists…
Eric Metcalfe and Kate Craig / Dr. Brute and Lady Brute; Vincent Trasov / Mr. Peanut; Camille Turner / Miss Canadiana; Kent Monkman / Miss Chief Eagle Testickle; etc.
Since the 1960s, numerous Canadian artists have created artist personas or…
There were times when I thought of myself as a Canadian artist and that I might move to Canada. In some ways this trip is about re-visiting that hidden Canadian artist and re-engaging with the Canada’s unique artist-run network. When…
Cite on Site - A research residency presented in partnership with KAPSULA
What if the bibliography was formatted as a network? How might we order a bibliography rhizomatically? Citing, Siting & Sighting Solidarity explores the use of this rhizomatic digital bibliographic form to map ‘solidarity’ in Canadian art history. Expanding on current…
For his research residency at Artexte, Michael Blum will work with the periodicals in the collection and explore the space between fanzine and art magazine, between Xerox and offset. He will focus on publications, ranging from the 1960s to the…
This summer we are glad to be in the company of Karla McManus, an art historian who specializes in the study of photography and the environmental imaginary and researcher in residency in our collection. This research project will explore how…
A research residency on the work of Jayce Salloum as alternative media.
Jayce Salloum has made a career out of interrogating the complicated nature of representation and the power of images and text. His career has also intersected in…
A research residence on themes of exteriority and exile
This winter, we are pleased to welcome Montreal-based artist, Adam Kinner, for a research residency. Kinner is looking at works and artistic practices, which engage with themes of exteriority, exile, borders and the figure of the alien. He is interested…
We are pleased to welcome Six Formats research group at Artexte.
In early 2017 a group of artists, curators, and art-based researchers will gather for a week to think about and experiment with Lecture-performance as a format of communication of…
We are pleased to welcome historian of Quebec art and photography Serge Allaire as a research resident at Artexte. The primary goal of this research residency is to locate and identify photobooks in Artexte’s holdings and to propose a rigorous…
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Artists, curators and writers all at some point reflect back on the body of work they have realized over an extended period of time. Modern art institutions formalized the contemplation of past…
Montreal artist and writer Nelson Henricks has been invited to investigate Artexte’s audio-visual holdings.
Though widely known as a resource centre for print documentation, Artexte also possesses a significant collection of audio-visual materials: films, videotapes, and DVDs; vinyl records, audiocassettes and CDs. The status of these objects varies: some are actual artworks and others…
From February to April 2015, Artexte welcomes Montreal based artist Adam Kinner for a research residency exploring the intersection of the dancing body and the state.
With Artexte’s support, he will pursue research for an upcoming project titled The Gesture…
Artexte accueille l’artiste, écrivain et commissaire Francys Chenier dans le cadre d’un projet ponctuel.
Suite à une lecture conjointe avec l’artiste interdisciplinaire Sylvie Cotton du Corps utopique de Michel Foucault, les deux se réuniront au mois de mars afin de…
For their research residency, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens continue their investigation on the dissemination of ideas into life by exploring Artexte’s collection. Synonymous with action and bodily knowledge, performance inserts itself completely into the research process of the two…
Uncovering Asian Canadian and Black Canadian Artistic Production
April 2 to April 30 – Vitrines on display in the consultation room
April 2, from 5 PM to 7 PM – Exhibition and catalogue launch
Founded in 2011, The Ethnocultural Art Histories Research group (EAHR) is a student-led research…
As part of this fall's research residency program, Artexte welcomes two inspiring researchers
Louis Rastelli (Montréal)
Writer, editor, DJ, musician and important figure of the local artistic community, Louis Rastelli participated in the making of multiple independent publications and co-founded Expozine in 2009. He is also co-founder of Archive Montréal, a non-profit organization…
New York based artist Nick Kline is at Artexte for a week-long research residency from May 21st to 30th. Kline’s research will involve a wandering process through the collection, searching for publications that explore processes of frottage (rubbings), castings, contact…
As part of their residency at Artexte, Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley (working together since 2004 under the name Leisure) will investigate the staging and re-staging of the dance Dualité, first performed by Jeanne Renaud and Françoise Sullivan in 1948.…
Daniel Canty‘s residency project revolves around his literary trilogy titled Bucky Ball, a novel that connects the real and imaginary worlds of science-fiction, the author’s childhood in Montreal in the 1960s, and the architecture of Expo ’67. Canty’s residency will…
This week, Artexte welcomes Winnipeg curator Kegan McFadden, who is researching independent zines and magazines produced by Canadian artists, collectives, and artist-run centres during the 1990s. Kegan’s project is supported by the Manitoba Arts Council’s Manitoba-New Brunswick-Quebec creative residency program,…
Artexte welcomes Tomasz Neugebauer, e-Artexte Researcher in Residence. Tomasz Neugebauer’s research interests are focused on the design and development of information sources in digital formats. His professional experience includes digital media publishing and software development. Neugebauer is interested in the…
Understanding Aboriginal Arts in Canada: A Literature Review
France Trépanier’s research residency at Artexte plays an essential part in a larger project, undertaken in collaboration with Chris Creighton-Kelly, which consists of conducting research with the aim of publishing an analysis on documentation and writing published on Aboriginal arts…
Burisch’s research at Artexte examines the intersections of craft and performance art. Through an investigation of Artexte’s documents, sources, and materials related to these two disparate fields, and through considering them together, her research will aim to draw or reveal…
Artists publications from 1965 to 1975 in the collection of Artexte
This past summer, Artexte invited Vincent Bonin and Jon Knowles to engage with its collection, in particular, the artists’ publications from the late 1960s and early 1970s. During their ongoing discussions around the material on hand, Bonin and Knowles commented…
Emily Falvey is currently working on the manuscript for her first book of art criticism, titled Torn Halves: Paradox in Canadian Art. This work consists of an anthology of essays exploring a range of paradoxical themes, including the relationship between…
During the months of September and October 2009, Artexte is hosting the research residency of Finnish curator Silja Lehtonen. The first in a series of cultural exchanges between Finland and Quebec, this collaboration provides an opportunity for innovative research as…
Artexte welcomes New York-based artist Alex Kwartler to a research residency that focuses on the career of a Canadian artist of the same name whose practice has become inadvertently entwined with that of his own.
Despite the obvious differences between…
It’s not easy being GREEN A Performative Presentation of Research Findings
Newfoundland-based artist Michelle Bush will undertake a performative research residency at Artexte this spring (23 March to 3 April). This residency will be part of the fourth-year installment of her 7 Years of Living Art, a continuation of the homologus…
The research residency programme at Artexte is hosting Anne Bérubé, Victoria Stanton and Sylvie Tourangeau. The three artists-researchers from Montreal will start their stay during the fall of 2008. Their goal is to re-examine the discourses around performance art, to…
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